Hip Flexor Stretch | Done Correctly
Hip Flexor Stretch | Done Correctly The hip flexor stretch is done poorly so often. Commonly the lumbar spine is the area that gets stressed not the muscles that are intended. With the hip flexor being such an important muscle posturally, I thought I’d...
5 Ways To Relieve Constipation
1 – Food intolerances can cause a spasm in the pelvic floor altering the tone of the muscles essential for healthy bowel movements. Food intolerances can actually cause a dysfunctional peristaltic motion (wave like movement of the gut tube) anywhere along the...
Hip Extension / Knee Flexion
Hip Extension / Knee Flexion The glutes are often very poorly developed and under active, combine that with a lack of integration with the hamstrings and lumbar spine and it can set up hip issues to name just one. This is one of my favourite glute, hamstring and back...
Cardiovascular Health – 7 Important Lessons
The following points are key take aways from an excellent book I studied earlier this year called – Primal Endurance – by Mark Sissons and Brad Kearns. Its such a great book on endurance training but there are lots of great take-aways for anyone,...
The Most Important Exercise For Back Pain
The Most Important Exercise For Back Pain The most important exercise for back pain is the horse stance exercise. Why? It stimulates the very important stabilising muscles that can become inhibited (shut off) when you are in pain and helps to condition them...
How Much Protein Do I Need?
How Much Protein Ok, I wanted to clarify something I said last week… I mentioned that an ideal amount of protein would be 1 gram for every kilogram of lean body mass. Some people who like numbers are fine with this but there are just as many, based on...
#1 Foam Roller Mistake
#1 Foam Roller Mistake The BIG mistake I see people making all the time, including some professionals, is extending from the lower back instead of the upper back when they lay over the foam roller. Why is this hyper extension in the lower back a problem? 1. Poor...
How To Lose Weight Well
If I wanted to lose weight and increase my overall health, this is what I’d do: 1 – Reframe my goal – If I wanted to lose weight, I’d actually reframe my goal as “I want to improve my body composition irrespective of my overall weight” This...
Desk Posture Fix
Desk Posture Fix The prone cobra is the exercise I prescribe the most often for slumped, rounded shoulders. It activates the muscles that are perhaps weak and deconditioned in you – the mid traps, rhomboids, posterior delts, thoracic erectors. Learn how to do it...
Mindfulness Techniques to Create a Positive State of Mind Now
Anxiety is experienced when we focus on the future and experience that as a negative projection of what might become. Depression is experienced when we focus on the past and create a negative association with that also. Excitement is felt when we focus on the future...