The Movement Guy

It's never made much sense to me to, A, assess people lying on a bed, B, correct things while someone is lying down/on the ground, unless their condition dictates it

How your hip behaves lying on your back is far less useful than seeing how it behaves once load and gravity get involved, just as all the corrective exercises in the world won't do jack if you don't put them into to practise while in motion

If you want to make meaningful changes to how you move then you need to develop your ability to move while gravity and BW are involved and in a way that's actually relevant to human movement , i.e gait

You can do all the 90/90s and stretching you like but if you can't access hip internal rotation while in motion, and use your glutes to do it, then that door will remain closed, perhaps even more so if you really push the stretching and mobility as you've now created a vulnerability and the Nervous System will respond with a tighter grip

Assessment and correction should be done (where possible) while standing and in motion - Fix the sequence not the symptom

No matter how many sessions I do with it still feels surreal when I'm going through the footage

This kid shouldn't be doing any of this based on his prognosis, yet here he is, doing everything they said he couldn't

I think there's a huge power in F You I'm going to do it anyway, in taking their words as a cautionary tale meant for people lacking vision, but not for you

Whenever I share these snippets I find myself questioning how much do they actually have figured out? How much have they got wrong? And, most worryingly, how many people have never recovered because no one even bothered to try?

This is a good one to throw in if you want to tick a few different boxes with one movement pre or post workout

It will develop your hip internal rotation, get your hips/glutes moving, get your shoulders and upper body moving, and, it will teach you how to manage load across your whole body

Take your time with it and let it flow

I've been breaking this and a few other movements down in my subscriber Hub this week for anyone who wants more in depth breakdowns

Helping upgrade her Hips, glutes and brain

This is a weird looking one, even by my standards, that borders on some kind of primitive dance, but it gets your hips/glutes moving in multiple ways, develops your gait pattern and develops rhythm and coordination - all essential for good movement

Looking Foolish.....

I used to get really anxious about sharing my drills, even though I knew they were helping me and my clients, I was worried about how they'd be received so I'd Bury them within reels of more normal (for me) looking stuff

I was scared of being judged, of not fitting into the gym/strength box anymore, of ridicule. But earlier this year on a day I was feeling brave I shared a clip of me and Danielle doing one of my gait building drills with the ball and it got a few thousands views (normally it was around 400) so I continued, taking clips of the more unconventional drills I used from client sessions and sharing them

Since then it's gone bonkers with one reel hitting 1.6m, my follow count, particularly on FB has gone insane, I'm working with people in multiple counties, I have subscribers and things have just been getting better and better

What's even cooler is how positively my antics have been received and how many people are benefitting from my weird drills - it's amazing

My point?

Don't be afraid to be different, don't be afraid to stand, don't ignore your intuition, be creative, question everything and most importantly....

Be Bold
Be Weird
Be You

I use this drill a lot to either see how someones glutes are doing or to break up drills and calm everything down

If someone feels it more in their legs/knees after 45-60seconds it's generally a sign thet aren't using their glutes very well to stabilise and there's too much tension in the legs so we work on enhancing their connection with the glutes and relaxing in the movement

The head twist adds another little vestibular layer, that, along with the rhythmic nature of the movement and the ball pass, can help to calm your nervous system and tension in the body, particularly the neck and upper body

The last year has really reignited my love for simple bodyweight work, like press ups and the dozens of variations you can do

No space? no equipment? no money? no time? No problem, a few sets of whatever you fancy, whenever you get a chance goes a long way and once your competent/confident you add plyo variations like this which absolutely light your chest, arms and shoulders

I spent several years lifting heavy/training most days, terrified that if I didn't pay my dues I'd melt like a candle. Even when I was riddled with injuries and having panic attacks before lifting sessions, I struggled to let it go

But last year it got so bad that I decided to strip everything back and figure out what the hell was wrong with me, besides the obvious😂

Since then the only weights I've touched have been the odd dumbbell/Kettlebell with clients, I ain't been near a gym and the only bit of structure I have is 60 seconds of press up and pull up variations Am/Pm

But, weirdly I ain't melted, even after coming off TRT. Granted my body composition suffered from the initial crash of hormones but I'm coming out the other end of that now and I'm extremely curious to see what I can do while being as efficient (ok lazy) as possible with how I approach exercise, with BW work, done little and often, being an integral part of the plan

Another week of defying all the odds - He's getting so much more solid in his standing, which considering they told him that he never would, not to bother, is all the more amazing

I've met a lot of people with a lot of different issues, from little niggles to absolutely catastrophic and the thing that separates those who make progress and those who don't is always attitude

Some people are faced with a life changing injury or diagnosis, something that would break most of us, and they shrug it off like a paper cut - Like Riley with Cancer and a Spine Injury

Others succumb to the smallest niggle, shifting their whole personality around it

I'm not saying everything can be overcome with a positive attitude, if only, but it definitely doesn't hurt to be a bit ignorant to your own limitations and ignore a grim prognosis😂