The first class in our "squat to trot" series, this class focused on improving hip ER, hip flexion and knee flexion alongside pelvis control. These things are all critical to be able to perform a good squat motion and mastery of them leads to an efficient and athletic squat pattern.
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Extension is better than cure (19th J...
In this class, the 3rd of our Squat to Trot Series, we worked the posterior hip portion of squatting actions along with foot ankle pre-requisites for unilateral variations of squatting like split squats. In the first half of class, we utilised breathwork to find pelvis and rib cage alignment whic...
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Internal Conflict (26th June)
When squatting we're often cued to screw our feet into the floor, push our knees out and try and externally rotate our hips. This works for part of the movement but at a certain point we'll need to have a more internally rotated position both at the pelvis and hips as well as further down the cha...
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Squat-ly Crew (3rd July)
In this class, we start to explore what we need to maximise our bilateral squat motion. We work some hip, knee and ankle internal rotation from a pseudo-squat position to understand and feel how important internal rotation at these joints are for creating force. And then we hit some ankle eversio...
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