A Handful of Bones
Jim Freda A handful of bones is just about all that we can hold in our mind as we go through the process of our complex daily full body movements. A handful of bones is enough to coordinate and balance the system in almost any position. Perhaps in our mundane daily movement of the […]
Understanding Pain Patterns
Jordan Terry View this post on Instagram A post shared by Adaptable Polarity (@adaptable_polarity)
Organizing the PSOAS
One of several guest posts by Nicole Uno. Transitioning back into ‘training season’ (from a summer spent outside) means high frequency-low intensity. I use this opportunity to work on patterning, and since everything benefits from improved posture/positions, I’m prioritizing my focus into improving how my middle functions. Seated X-Pattern Load ‘sit bones’, […]
The 3-Phase Repatterning Stretching Cycle
Dave Wardman The last essay served as an introduction to the art of repatterning stretching: its lore, heuristics, principles, aphorisms, and more. It was largely theorum. This second essay in a series of ‘class essays’ [essays designed to aid people dive into the repatterning stretching more fluidly] is more of the ‘applied theorum’ flavour. […]
Desk Sitter Series
Gary Stockdale
Oral-Facial Health & Posture (Part 2)
Jim Freda Regarding the issues identified in part one, the goal is to survey the literature for other innovative strategies to test and to implement. Dietary changes and awareness of oral-facial posture are the primary solution but there are a variety of exercises and other orthodontic interventions the authors suggest. A gentle Buddha […]
Oral-Facial Health & Posture (Part 1)
Jim Freda A variety of medical investigators sought to understand how the new urban and industrial nature of modern life was changing our bodies. “As far as we can discover, the changes in jaws with new diets and urbanization were first noticed and recorded in the 1830s”, report Kahn and Ehrlich (2018). Kahn and […]
Guest Post #7 – Translating Point of Contact
Nicole Uno Fist to False-Grip | Ground to Rings As body angles change to adjust exercises, (whether to make them easier or more difficult), it can also cause thinking to shift away from concept-based objectives and toward specific task-based objectives. Typically, task-based objectives beg to be completed rather than understood. On one end […]
Breathwork & Posture
Gary Stockdale
Three Bones Theory
Jim Freda Three bones theory and the sensory stations of the deep core: An anatomical description of evolutionary mismatch and sitting disease as kinesthetic dystonia. A summary statement. Three bones theory states that there are three major bones, each located at the heart of a major juncture of the body, and these bones […]
Suck-in and Extension
Austin Einhorn View this post on Instagram Gabo’s progress—After watching him play, it became more evident he has a hard time getting segmental movement throughout his spine when his limbs move away from his center (arms going overhead and legs straightening). Instead, he move predominantly at one location, his low back and […]
Training Positions of Hypermobility
Sevinc Gurman In our FRC session with @senaozgoren this week, we trained our hyperflexed knee in its end range together with Passive Range Holds. I joined in with her because it is definitely not fun to train your hyperextended end range, meanwhile there is so much fear surrounding it. Everywhere you go, there is […]
PRI: The Big Three
Christine Ruffolo Postural Restoration addresses the anatomical imbalances of the body by inhibiting certain areas by position and purposefully engaging others. A big idea is that the left side of the body is stuck in extension while the right side lingers in flexion. The effects of each appear in patterns throughout the kinetic chain. Posterior […]
An Introduction to PRI: Sagittal Plane Dysfunction
There are a multitude of different corrective methods out there that seek to improve joint position, therefore affecting joint stability, and hopefully protect the individual from chronic pain/injury. PRI’s principles are based around the idea that the human body is inherently asymmetrical in structure and function. Because of the inherent asymmetrical organ makeup of the […]