When it comes to generating power for rotational movements like throwing a ball, swinging a bat, pushing a door open, smashing a tennis backhand, or even pushing a vacuum, there's nothing that beats the lunge exercise to prepare your body.
The "Spiraling" system of external rotation that comes from your ball and socket joints during this lunge movement is crucial not only for strain free efficient movement, it's also what preserves and protects your fragile upright posture.
Essentially…it keeps your joints healthier and your body younger. Enjoy and let me know in the comments where YOU feel the lunge when you do it!
For all you Core Wellness Garden Cast lovers…Here's a BIG DOSE of early spring action in our back yard no till garden!
You'll hear our 5 year old share deep philosophy and share his infectious laugh.
You'll see cold frames and mini green houses in action for year round growing and harvesting of dark leafy greens.
AND…You'll learn how a no till garden can create more mineralized plants for a more alkaline garden and therefore a more alkaline body environment!
Remember that hormones and vitamins only work if the pH of your body is right. An acid enviroment from too much grain and meat (especially grain fed, factory farm animals) means less effective biochemical reactions in your body which leads to low energy, weight gain, and degenerative diseases like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes to name a few.
So watch intently and let me know what you think of these GardenCasts…MORE or LESS.
Also let me know what kind of content that I've put out so far is your favorite! I want to serve you best. So drop me your feedback in the comments below!
When it comes to finding a comfortable sitting posture, this sitting posture imagery will help you enjoy a strong and stable center without even having to "think" about it!
The power of your IMAGINATION to rewire your brain is everything!
Not only is developing a clear vivid picture in your mind crucial to creating what you want in life, it works the same way with creating the strain free postureand movement you need to continue to live an active and fulfilling life!
Of course the images you watched in the video merely scratch the surface as far as what's possible BUT…
What's MOST important here is the concept of "pushing away" from your support points just like an infant trying to verticalize.
These automatic perfect posture programs are inside you but, unfortunately, like I told one of my private clients yesterday, we get "viruses" that corrupt our inborn programs of perfect posture.
These "viruses" happen when your bodymind is infected with a mental, physical, or nutritional stress.
The new damaging "stress induced" programs infect the system and pretty soon your inborn programs of health, renewal, growth, and expansion become really hard to access.
You know the symptoms…don't you?
Communication suffers, things run slower, and sometimes the entire system crashes to force you to identify and eliminate the viruses.
It's the same thing with your bodymind.
You must identify and eliminate the stresses that are blocking your ability to naturally flow into your perfect posture pattern of growth, peace, renewal, and expansion!
Then, when you follow the imagery exercise in the video, you can access your original, beautiful, perfectly designed posture with greater ease and never feel drained again by a long day of sitting!
NEXT TIME IN PART 3: How to do posture training and burn calories while you're at your computer! (No joke!)
Be sure to leave a comment about how you did with the imagery exercise...Where did you feel it? What did you feel? Did it help? Did it hurt? Let me know…I'm really interested in your feedback!
Everyone wants to know what stretches to do to relieve their neck and shoulder tension but to me, that's like snipping a weed off at the level of the ground without ever getting to the ROOT!
In today's Core Wellness TV episode below, you'll learn about "Movement Patterns" or "Programming" that must be "DEprogrammed" or else you'll end up like Bill Murray in the movie "Groundhog Day", repeating the same damaging movement patterns over and over and over…and over!
Stretch=> feel better => damage yourself with dysfunctiona movement patterns => overload muscles and joints => feel pain, tension, and fatigue => get grumpy and create a short emotional fuse and damage relationships => stretch…back to top of loop!
Speaking of "Groundhog Day" and "Deprogramming". I'm doing a live 2 HOUR LIVE EVENT on Groundhog Day, Feb. 2nd with proven Mindset, Movement, and Nutrition strategies to help you BREAK FREE from your own loop of poor health choices that are keeping you "stuck".
I put a 1 page flyer together with details which you can access by CLICKING HERE. We will be recording it and making it available to all our wonderful subscribers from afar who won't be able to make it. (if you're not a subscriber, just click on my photo to the right and enter your name and email)
Enjoy the video…It will save you YEARS of agony…I promise!
One of the top fitness trends for 2010 that actually makes sense is "Functional Fitness".
This means training your body with movements that actually mimic real life situatations or "activities of daily living".
In this short but VERY impactful video, I talk about the most basic functional fitness move that you MUST incorporate into your everyday living or else suffer the eventual consequences of debilitating back pain, sciatica, and hip problems.
I have literally seen people die (one very recently) because of a back pain episode that caused horrible disability and depression.
So I honestly believe that this simple "hip hinge" move can literally save your life!
ALSO…after watching the video below, be sure tocheck out this previous video post I did that incorporates the hip hinge move during a highly effective stretch for sciatica, back pain, and hip pain. (13,127 views and 35 comments to date!)
YOUR QUESTION OF THE DAY…
What other questions about fitness do you have? I'm sure many of you have embarked on new or different exercise program as a New Year's resolution…right? What's your biggest concern or question about exercising? Leave your question by leaving a comment below!
