Shruti Turner

A painful lunge doesn't always mean they are off the menu.

Sometimes, a small tweak to the set up is enough to make the movement feel very different.

Try:-

🤔 grounding through the whole foot

🤔 checking where your front knee is travelling

🤔 reducing the range and building from there

The goal isn't to force your way through pain.

It's to work out whether the movement needs to go...or simply whether it needs to be tweaked to work with your body.

This is the foundation of how I coach: finding ways to keep working towards your goals without expecting your body to fit one "correct" version of an exercise.

Save this for your next leg session, or send to someone who has already declared lunges their nemesis 🦹‍♂️

There's a difference between an exercise being challenging and an exercise making you dread your next workout.

Sometimes it's worth keeping because it's useful and the challenge is part of the point. 🔥

Sometimes there's another exercise that gets you towards the same goal without making training miserable.

🏆 There are very few prizes for suffering through an exercise just because you think you should.

The question to ask is: what is this exercise actually giving me?

That kind of grey area comes up a lot in training, inclusion when we're deciding what to do about pain.

I am exploring that in more detail in today's new blog "Pain: when should you push through and when should you stop?"

Link in bio.

You don't need to figure everything out alone, but you don't necessarily need a PT beside you for every session.

You might already feel comfortable exercising indeoendently, but still find yourself wondering...

🤔 am I doing the right things?

🤔 how should I progress?

🤔 what do I change when my body, energy or life changes?

My Independent Training Plan gives you a personalised programme for your whole week, built around your goals, experience, available equipment and real life.

You'll receive your programme through the app, with monthly review and updates as you progress.

It is £95/month, and I currently have 3 spaces available to start in August.

The first step is a no-obligation application. I will review what you're working towards, what support you need and how we could best work together.

Comment PLAN or send me a message and I'll share the details.

I think summer routines can look deceptively easy from the outside.

More daylight. Better weather 🌞 More opportunities to be active.

Yet for a lot of people, summer also means disrupted sleep, childcare changes, travel, social plans and less structure than usual.

That can make movement feel more difficult, not easier. 😵

I don't think the answer is always to become more disciplined.

Sometimes it is to stop judging the version of you that has less time, energy or predictability, and build from there instead.

What has felt toughest for you about maintaining movement this summer?