5 Foundational Movement Skills I Practice To Feel My Best #gymworkout #workout #personaltrainer

Recently, I’ve been thinking about ways to simplify the process of training. So I listed out what I believe are foundational movement skills.

The skills can develop in any number of exercises over time, so it’s not about learning an “exercise.” But rather, it’s about understanding what you are trying to get out of each activity from a movement standpoint.

Understanding the concept behind each skill allows you to be precise with your intention. It helps you answer the question, “what am I trying to get out of this?”

When you apply this intention to repetition, you get an incremental improvement in the ability to “get what you want.”

Here’s just a few:

1. Hip before back extension - this is the idea that we will attempt to delay back extension during hip extension activities. It’s fine to extend, but try to do it slower than the hip extension. This makes the center of mass easier to control.

2. Low threshold rolling - These types of rolls are about letting the shape of your body create the movement for you. A small bit of momentum or movement driven from a reaching action sets it in motion. From there, it’s about sequentially allowing the body to turn. Effortless is the key.

3. Vertical translation - The key here is to pick something relatively straight up and down. Practice pushing down and launching up. The timing should be ankles and hips together, knees follow. Done at fast speeds and light loads, vertical translation helps create an “unweighting effect.”

4. Body on Head Movement - Any activity that maintains the head straight ahead and rotates the torso underneath will improve rotation at the junction of the upper torso and neck. Getting a bit more neutral in the rib cage and Breathing in a coordinated way increases the chances of rotation within the rib cage.

5. Loaded axial mobility - A lot of people never get to end range of their axial movements. That’s to bad, cause these are a simple yet powerful way to explore the extremes to find a resting point in the “middle.”

Lot more of these to discuss.

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