Kat Cut Fit

‘I know I just need to stretch more’

is a message I read 10x yesterday, half of them were golfers.

As if just the lack of stretching is the reason your mobility is 💩

I had clients who stretch for 20 years, 6 days a week and are still stiff - how’s that possible?

Here are 3 reasons I see most often:

1️⃣. They move too fast

The tempo they’re doing it is more of ‘HIIT-let-it-burn’ than a ‘La-la-la- done-with ease’

They hit the end range for a fraction of a second, then get out as quickly as possible because that’s the uncomfortable part.
And needs most control & patience.

Slowness is where your power lies

2️⃣. Nervous system is in high alert:

- breathing not aligned with movement
- the frowned face,
- lifted shoulders,
- tensed fists…

are all signs you’re forcing the stretch, and your body doesn’t feel safe.

When it doesn’t, it will contract even more.

I know it’s hard to relax when something feels uncomfortable.

That’s why consistent exposure to new ranges matters.

3️⃣. No strength component

Just passive stretching, usually something picked up from an aerobics class in 1998 that somehow became the entire mobility routine.

The body adapts what you consistently do.

Do introduce new movement patterns & getting strong at end ranges. Learn to own them.

Most golfers don’t need more swing tips
Just more specific mobility

You think you don’t need mobility work until you bend over to pick up your socks and suddenly injure yourself

Or every day when you need to step over in a bathtub but you barely can

So instead of facing it, you start avoiding certain movements & activities

Because you don’t want to see yourself struggle or look ridiculous to others

I mean.. you can do that

But that’s just avoidance, not a solution

My goal is to kickstart the process of you becoming a person who moves every day

You learn by doing.

Not by saving another videos in hope you’ll apply it one day

If you’re serious & ready to get mobile & strong,

message me ‘CUT’ to work with me 🐆

This is what I do when my lower back feels tight from too much sitting or lifting

Now you can copy it too

P.S. This might not be suitable for your lower back situation/ injury- for individual solutions, message me ‘BACK’

‘Hey Kat, can you give me some exercise for..?’

I can’t.

Because just having the exercise, you’re not
fixing the habit, just the symptom.

(and that’s not how it will ever get better)

If your neck & traps almost burn from the amount of tension,
the goal is not to be just stretching the area.

But to see why it happens in the first place.

It might be from
-using your phone 6+ hrs daily,
-from lack of rotational in your body,
-from your tongue & jaw position,
-from you never ever doing intentional mobility...

millions of reasons.

In the end it only matters what you do about it.

Information alone doesn’t change your body.
What you consistently do does.

Once you start doing mobility,

not all your problems will be solved.

But a huuuge chunk of it will.

If your back and hips are killing you day by day, and you still do nothing about it

Or keep using the same methods that don’t do much,
it’s time to ask yourself for long more.

Same happened with a client of mine from 2 years ago.

He was iffy if he should do this online thing,
I told him try, and if you see no results,

I give you all your cash back, no questions asked.

1 month turned into 3,
3 turned into a year, and he still occassionally books sessions with me to keep learning new tricks and methods.

What started with distrust & low back pain, ended up with a supple leopard status 🐆 (check my highlights for proof)

A loooot is possible if you’re open to:
- look beyond massages and rehab-only
- stop listing all the reasons of why not, and starting with step nr.1
- give time and effort

If there’s a will, there’s a way
(if I ever get a tattoo, it will be this one)