01/01/2024
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Here to help you achieve #painfreeaesthetics. You don't have to be in pain to get the shredded physique you desire. I'll show you the way.
01/01/2024
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Simple Trick to Improve Glute Growth w/ ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Core Stability => Hip Mobility => Glute Engagement & Growth
05/28/2022
Gettin a lil lengthy w/ ๐ฅ
(Taking applications for new clients! Link in my bio ๐๐ฝ)
05/26/2022
โWorking with Karon is the best thing I have done for myself.
He has been helping me connect the dots with this system. Every session, he pushes me to go deeper and Iโm able to apply it to my practice. With his direction, Iโm able to progress and feel confident that Iโm moving forward. Karon is always so helpful and holds so much knowledge. He continues to keep learning which is key!โ
Free Workout for Spine Health! (SOUND ON!)
Tips and cues in video ๐๐ฝ
1. Soft Tissue: Gluteus Medius 2 mins per side
2. Soft Tissue: Erector Spinae 2 mins per side
3. Hamstring Stretch: 12 reps per side (or until break is needed)
4. Bridge: 12 reps (or until break is needed)
5. Hindu Squats (heel elevated): 12 reps
6. Squat Lean: Until failure
Try this sequence and let me know how it goes! Run that circuit twice or three times (you can skip the rolling between the second and 3rd set).
Try This Squat Variation!
The goal is to stay as forward as you can!
๐๐ฝ Imagine that you have to squat without using your spine, should help you use your hips more.
๐๐ฝ Make sure you widen the knees as you lower yourself into the squat to find that โcatchโ in your groin.
๐๐ฝ Make the glutes and knees go away from each other.
๐๐ฝ Just like on the way down, when you stand up, try not to use your spine.
๐๐ฝ Try to do 10 in a row without falling.
๐ค No, we would not use weights like this, however, it will lead to weights as we learn how to stay forward with the heels on the floor.
๐ค Weโre very good at squatting into our heels, but not so great at squatting into the front of our foot (forward energy).
๐ค Leaning forward is what grabs different muscles (glutes and groin) as opposed to being in your heels which grabs quads and lower back.
Let me know how this goes!
04/19/2022
The Lats: A Reflection of The Rib Cage
The latissimus dorsi is a popular muscle that Iโve come to understand a lot differently since starting Flo.
๐๐ฝ The expansion and fluffiness of the lats is a reflection of the rib cage being open!
๐๐ฝ When the ribs are large and open via training the serratus to make space for them to expand over time, the lats follow (peep the last slide)
๐๐ฝ When the rib cage is compressed and choked from the shoulder blades (scapula) resting toward the spine because of a lack stability from the serratus, we see the lats lack the fluffiness (peep the last pic)
๐๐ฝ The erectors (erector spinae) instead are large from a dominance in extension of the middle low back. Theyโre essentially moving a lot and growing.
๐๐ฝ The lats seem to become like a cape with the rib cage and impact shoulder mobility as well (look at the attachment to the arm).
1๏ธโฃ Free the ribs & the lats appear to follow.
2๏ธโฃ It all starts with teaching the serratus to manage the shoulder blades better (scapular protraction) to free the ribs.
๐ค The connection to the pelvis is particularly interesting to me.
๐ค How do the shoulders and hips interact based on this attachment? When I watch Jordan box and throw the football, his rotation of the ribs and hip speak volumes in terms of this connection.
All questions iโll continue to explore as my own body and my clients progress!
Try This Core Exercise!
This โreachingโ exercise is involving the core and scapular protraction as I talked about in my last post.
1๏ธโฃ Try to keep your hands wider than your knees.
2๏ธโฃ Try your best to not lock your elbows out.
3๏ธโฃ Try to get your shoulder blades as far off the ground as you can.
4๏ธโฃ Continue inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth.
Hold for time.
Let me know how it goes!
04/15/2022
Free Core Class!
Same time, same place.
Bring a yoga mat!
Bring a friend who wants a stronger core!
04/14/2022
Freeing The Rib Cage: Protraction
The reaching weโre doing is to strengthen a muscle called serratus anterior.
๐๐ฝ The reach via scapular protraction creates space for the rib cage to open up and expand allowing us to breathe back there!
๐๐ฝ Look where the lungs are (second slide) ๐, if the shoulder blades in the way, the expansion canโt happen there.
๐๐ฝ After we get the scapula out of the way (stuck in retraction often) we slowly teach the muscles on the back of the upper back to accept air relieving a lot of โtightnessโ back there.
๐๐ฝ This freedom of the ribs and musculature around them also frees the mobility of the shoulder which is a cool โrewardโ of scapular stability ๐ฅ.
1๏ธโฃ Overtime the ability to protract readily becomes another option for the scapula besides just retraction!
2๏ธโฃ The scapula can then rest at a more โneutralโ position away from the spine as to not block the ribs anymore (this takes time)
3๏ธโฃ The strength at the serratus via this protraction creates strength that takes a lot of stress out of the elbows and wrist (larger muscles manage the arm ๐๐ฝ).
4๏ธโฃ This strength creates length in the ribs which then creates length in the lats if you peep Jordanโs push-up before and after (crunched ribs and short lats neck vs lengthened ribs and lats)
Iโll put a up an exercise for you to try next to start to strengthen protraction ๐๐ฝ.