Having weak neck muscles leads to poor posture. Weak anterior neck muscles is a big part of forward head posture. If you want to fix forward posture, having stronger neck muscles helps. If you want to do ab exercises, you need stronger neck muscles! This video will show you how to strengthen your neck muscles safely!
Anyone can do the deep Asian Squat! It just takes time and practice. If you learn how to do a deep squat with your feet wide, you can gradually progress to a deep Asian squat with narrower foot stance. If the Asian squat feels painful or uncomfortable, this video will help you fix it!
Many trainers tell you never to stretch your hamstrings if you have anterior pelvic tilt. This is a total myth. If you follow this advice, you will almost guarantee that you'll be stuck with anterior pelvic tilt. If you want to fix anterior pelvic tilt, you need to teach all your hip muscles to work properly. You need to stretch your hamstrings to fix anterior pelvic tilt AND you need to understand the anatomy of your body so you can fix anterior pelvic tilt for good.
What's the most important shoulder exercise you can do at home without any special equipment? It's the row. The dumbbell row is simple to do at home, and you can substitute with something like a backpack to improve your shoulder and arm strength. This one exercise will help stabilize your shoulder and improve your confidence in picking things up. And it'll keep your shoulders pain free and safe while you go about your daily life!
This is a simple flexibility test. Are you able to mount a bike without cheating and twisting your body? Do you have the hip mobility to lift your leg over the seat of the bike? If not, you need to work on improving your hip flexibility. You're just too stiff to get on a bike! With a few targeted stretches and hip strengthening exercises, you can improve your hip mobility and be able to safely mount and dismount your bike!
It can seem like knee pain comes from old age and arthritis. Active adults often fall victim to this mental trap and think there's nothing you can do to prevent knee pain. The truth is you can prevent and fix knee pain if you train your knees properly. This will require you to vary your training and activities so you give your lower body a wide range of challenges. You need to train your hips, knees, ankles, and feet to have full range of motion and strength through a full range of motion (i.e. strength at every length)!
When you're trying to get more flexible, you may notice you get sore after stretching. If you experience soreness after stretching, it's not a sign you're doing something wrong. It's a sign that you are working muscles hard! Stretching to improve flexibility involves isometric, eccentric, and even concentric contractions sometimes! That's why your muscles get sore. They aren't just "relaxing" when you stretch. Your stretched muscles are actually working!
If you're too weak to do push-ups, don't worry. To get strong enough to do push-ups, you only need some simple push-up regressions you can do at home. By doing easier versions of the push-up, you can build arm strength slowly, gradually, and safely. As you get stronger shoulders, you'll get better at push-ups. And then you'll be able to do more advanced full range push-ups!
The training strategies in this video will show you how to engage the right muscles when you're doing hip, shoulder, leg, and spine exercises. If you cannot feel the right muscles fire, try 1) massage 2) work to fatigue 3) try less hard but longer 4) Adjust position 5) Add resistance.
Before you buy into conventional medical advice that suggests you sit still or get surgery to deal with joint pain, try functional training. You might find you have the power to touch your toes, do that squat, or even stand on your hands all on your own, and without pain.
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