Warning! - Your fitness program is probably causing you to be weak and sick. Why? How?

Why? Because this re-occurring circumstances with the people who seek help and guidance from me are showing this to me. And very often these clients have seen me after being seen by many clinicians and when shown has never been addressed related to their condition, or setbacks in their fitness and performance progress.

It’s been the primary variables I see over and over again that are limiting a person’s potential for healing, fitness and performance. It has not been identified, understood, addressed or placed importance on what I consider minimal standards for real progress and success.

Here are the top 5 variables:

The Ankle, and the Foot (below discussion), are the most important area for proper movement in any shape for health, fitness and performance. The mobility of the ankle in particular have a profound influence on what occurs up the chain of motion….all the way to the head. Good balance strategies, good multi-directional movement, stability and impulses from the huge sensory portion of what the foot feels in relationship to the ground all coordinate on an integrated, beyond attention, the pattern of mobility and motion you accomplish. Your ankle mobility also affects how you sit AND how well you breathe!

In-person sessions can easily identify if this needs to be addressed based on the activities and demands you place on your body for health, fitness and performance.

In all motions, especially ones that you do with walking or use of one hand require a coordination of motion and flexibility to accomplish even simple acts of walking. Then add running, hiking and other more demanding activities and you have the necessity for both capacities. In addition, when you use your hands for any activity, then this same coordination of freedom of movement is essential to promote healthy patterns of movement, instead of deteriorating patterns of movement that lead to illness, injury and degeneration.

And a very simple measure is done in a very safe way to better look into this capacity, and what to address if not in a range for proper movement to the activities you do.

I would say 75% of the people in the last 5 years who have come for help demonstrate a overuse pattern of engaging their core for daily activities, recovery from injury, fitness and recreational activities. And this is because the myth of the core being something one needs to voluntarily contract to prevent something from happening that they are afraid of, or experienced before……..such as back pain.

The message to people from misguidance is the assumption that they are weak at the core. Now, just say that to yourself and what does that really feel like? “You are weak to the core.” In my clinic, and online assistance, I debunk this false belief and embedded concept and replace it will feelings of proper engagement and understanding how each individual can uniquely empower themselves beyond fear, apprehension and un-coordinated mechanical movement to be at their best.

And there is a simple measure, actually three that I use to identify where to link in the true core.

Acquire the right capacities with the right guidance. Your capacities of Moving and Breathing Well will fundamentally support every activity you do for daily life, recovery and healing, health, fitness and performance.