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09/10/2026

Play creates incredible variability for rehab.

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09/05/2026

It takes me a long time to ground into a proper brace, and I seem to learn something new about my alignment and activation every rep.

Nuance is key while I've been reclaiming the bracing movement patterns I lost while living so bloated. I'm finding a strange joy in the new attention I bring to bear on my innards (and outtards).

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08/26/2026

I've never before had a lesson in patience like this one. It's possible for me to work out in a way that I feel fabulous during and after the workout, but painlessly lose a substantial amount of sleep if I've pushed too hard. Holding back when I'm burning to move is the norm, like I'm cooking the most delicious smelling stew and I never get to eat it.

This affords me ages to learn the nuance of hip mechanics. There are benefits to doing dozens of slow, easy reps that I don't hear talked about. It's an intersection between the Alexander Technique and all the efforts to be strong and fit.

I've learned that feeling like I'm not working can be experienced even while exherting physical force. In a so-called workout.

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08/19/2026

I posted about my postural improvement last week, and here are a couple of my learnings which earned me a more relaxed feeling neck and hips:

1. The connection between the shoulders and the hips was too important to ignore - I had to improve my skill in scapular depression before my hips could relax in a squat.

2. I was progressing myself too fast. Many reps at a low (or no added) weight has become one of my favourite ways to earn my relaxed neck, hips, and head-back-and-stacked posture.

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I've been working intently on this for a month and a half. The visual change at the level of the head is small, and the ...
08/13/2026

I've been working intently on this for a month and a half.

The visual change at the level of the head is small, and the felt experience is substantial. Getting my ear lobe over the front of the ankle joint instead of in front leaves my neck and spinal muscles feeling relaxed.

I'm fascinated to see that I've reduced what looks to me like kyphotic-lordotic posture, even cold.

The trick wasn't to force anything. I've already posted a video of what contributed a large amount of the change: slow, relaxed, bodyweight sit-to-stand squats and goodmornings. I'll post more about my process soon.

I'm relaxed and settled in these photos. Nothing was forced back or forward into place. Feels good.

I admit the photos aren't perfect because my ankle is a bit out of frame so it's an iffy line placement. The more I stare at the photos, the more I wonder if I accomplished anything more than a state of relaxation. Next time.

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06/29/2026

I think I've found my social media schtick: high rep, low intensity drills to re-pattern movements.

I learn movements from physios and other professionals which help my body, and I struggle to incorporate them in my subconscious movement patterns.

I don't get enough practice.

Enter: Doing the movement hundreds of times.

Duh. It's funny how the way forward seems like it was in plain sight after it's noticed.

In the vid I'm working on one thing: keeping the adductors on my left leg engaged the way I know is healthy for me while I hip hinge.

I've found I need to strengthen and re-pattern the use of my adductors. I can use the adductors well when I pay attention, but the pattern is not engrained yet.

So far the benefits are promising.

Who wants to hang out and squat hundreds of times with me??

05/04/2026

I have three secrets to open shoulders:

1. Don't force it and relax everything with positional drills. For months.
2. Regressed range of motion practice. Many reps.
3. Force it.

In that order.

My body needed to learn to chill, then it needed to reprogram its movements.

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04/25/2026

4 exercises to reduce back tightness:

The lower back is often neglected. It gets tight, and then people go stretch their legs to resolve it. I don't see that working quickly.

A different strategy is required. We can relax our lower back by decompressing it. The breath naturally does this if our diaphragms aren't restricted by too much sitting.

To enable a restricted diaphragm to again relax the lower back, we can block out the front of our abdomen and rib cage. This forces our lower back to expand, instead of our belly and chest moving out and forward.

Your mileage may vary with each of the activities pictured. Pick the activities which seem the most comfortable. Stay in them only while they're comfortable. Breathe silently, and exhale for at least 5 seconds.

The first two activities and the last are easier to understand. The third activity is actually subtly moving the shoulder blades into positions where the back can better decompress. It seems like black magic, but if you find a feeling of relaxation in activities 1 and 2 and now know what to look for, activity 3 will make more sense.

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03/26/2026

HIP REHAB: Went from a 155lb 90-degree hip flexion squat to this 175lb deep squat in one day because I breathed into the parts of my abdomen I'd forgotten I could expand.

Usually my hips are sore and my back tightens up during 155lb squats. It blows my mind that all I needed to do was breathe better.

Note my single leg trap bar lift is 405. The legs are strong, but the hips and back were a mystery to me. Now I'm finding it challenging to hold back.

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03/14/2026

Can you guess what I'm targeting here?

General warmups are great, but it's possible to resolve all the personal niggling workout pains and tightness before getting into sport.

Although if I'm brutally honest with you, effective hip and back warmup drills could be a part of our culturally understood general warmups, and my claim about personal warmups being a step above general warmups might become moot.

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