Train With Adri - Personal Training

Planking is one of the simplest & most accessible ways to start training your full body strength & stability, with or without a bosu ball.

Save these coaching cues to help you get the most of it 🥰

There are so many things to say here…i’ll try to be brief

Our bodies are insanely impressive, but they are always going to take the path of least resistance bc they are designed to keep us safe.

Which means that if they don’t have a reason to keep optimising, they simply won’t

They’ll do the bare minimum to conserve minimum energy.

That doesn’t sound like that big a deal until we have to do something hard, like healing from an injury

The body is also crazy smart and it will undertake some repair, but it will probs not do a great job (the quickest workaround) & will probs also take ages if it hasn’t been equipped with the tools to do so

Not saying strength training alone will magically fix your injuries lol I wish. But it will damn well help your body recover better/faster & will actually hugely decrease the risk of your even getting injured & having to stop the fun s**t you love doing

Like dancing

Bc it helps you actually understand your body, its limits, what’s safe, what isn’t, control, intensity, intention (and many other things)

so you can make the most of the gift that your body is without trashing it in the process

If you’re a dancer who’s still not strength training (particularly if you are teaching too) - dude you need to do something about that right now

I honestly have a chronically tight back

And so do most dancers I know

And just stretching doesn’t really do much for me nor for them bc it’s not usually a flexibility issue

But a lot of stored tension that goes beyond individual muscle tightness

This is one of my FAVOURITE EVER EVER EVER movements that literally soothes my body and my soul and literally makes everything better

Hahaha jokes but honestly it’s so good, with only 3-5 reps so much of the tension is gone & I feel so much more mobile in my body

To move the spine slowly & intentionally like this does it so much good + also gets you more aware of where you may need to improve control (moving the spine segment by segment is actually so much harder than it seems)

Join our community of dancers looking to stay strong & healthy along their journey (link in bio)

1. Obsession culture: where balance is seen as a lack of commitment.

2. Living in constant tightness or soreness & calling it the price of progress.

3. Sacrificing sleep & proper nutrition for more dancing or aesthetics.

4. Making dance your only form of exercise & thinking that’s enough.

5. Glorifying extreme flexibility with no focus on strength or control.

6. Believing struggle = not talented enough (instead of part of learning).

7. Making comparison with others & the need for external validation the main drivers for effort.

8. Confusing ‘good dancers’ for ‘good teachers’ & accepting poor teaching as ‘just how it is’.

9. Staying in environments that drain you bcos you think you have to.

Have I missed anything?