19/08/2025
As a health and fitness coach, I've spent years looking at the way people move.
I'm programmed to see patterns and shapes.
You see someone do a squat. I see how their hips come up in relation to their spine.
You see someone walk. I see what their pelvis is doing, how their arms are swinging, and the orientation of their foot as it swings through.
It doesn't have to be that complex for the average person, though.
Most people don't care about these things because they don't coach movement.
They care about feeling better, looking better, performing better.
It's simple and I like that.
This simplicity requires me to simplify my thinking at times.
What does someone need?
I think about the positions people spend time in and how to counter that.
Take the sitting position, for example. The "C" shape that hours upon hours are spent in.
•Forward head
•Rounded spine
•Flex hips
•Closed down breathing
Then I think about the opposite of that. A simple way for someone to spend some time counteracting the sitting position.
The Propped, or Sphinx position, sometimes called:
•Extended head/neck
•Extended spine
•Extended hips
•Opened up breathing
Is it perfect? No, but it doesn't need to be; it just needs to be better and doable.
This, my friends, is doable.
Spend some time opposing the terrible positions you put yourself in daily.
Take 5 here...
Take 10 here...
Watch The Penguin here...
Spend some time here.