13min:04sec. Top level (ok, you can always go more…:) of the “Big 3 Core Exercises”. Proceed with caution with these intense exercises, be particularly careful with your shoulders. These are fantastic for high end core strengthening!
Core Ex Level 7. “Big 3, step 3!”
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Hello, Dr. Jed here coming at you again from Moab Utah advancing
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and now rounding out the McGill
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big three course stability exercises.
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Okay, now always some of
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my favorite exercises to begin with are those standing side planks. So
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let’s insert some of those here. We need
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to maintain neutral spine strong abdominal bracing
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brace.
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Check in feel your abdominals engaging.
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Feel the neutral spine and now we’ll just kind of
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pivot into.
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the side plank
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maintaining neutral spine
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strong abdominals
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we’re just going to flow this together. Okay?
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boom
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boom
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Count them out one.
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two
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Three it’s easy to creep away from the wall. You gotta
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step back in. That’s okay.
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Once again, the tendency is of the
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feet to come out. You just adjust a little bit here and there
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as needed while maintaining strong abdominals neutral
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spine everything supported right
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here. You’re going to be working.
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Those muscles up and down right there.
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Very good. Well if you’re Outdoors you
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do it against.
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Cliff wall. Are you doing against trees maintain that
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spinal stability that good twist three two
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one. Let’s give
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it a pivot.
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Turn that pelvis all the way around. I like to lift up the hand nice and
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high. Oh that right hand is silhouetted in that white rim
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Sandstone underneath. There’s that cedar Mesa
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Sandstone common stuff out there just outside of
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Canyon lens. So let’s increase the challenge
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by dropping to a lower surface.
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Still once again kind of warming up our body. Yep, stabilize
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that spine. Don’t
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let it sag in don’t let it bow out too
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much good twist all the way holding strong
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holding strong. Here we go. Let’s twist
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it again.
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very good
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tilt up Elvis all the way maintain that
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good spouse stability.
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pivot strong good pivot good
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pivot
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careful those shoulders there if your shoulders are hurting once again,
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you you hold the top your shoulder there.
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Hold it.
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Twist good pivot, once again
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anytime if your feet are slipping out you just slipping back in.
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Readjust yourself as you need for your comfort.
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And let’s twist.
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Probably one more here hold strong five four
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three two.
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one
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Alrighty, very good. Let’s go back to Moab. Okay,
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and once you’ve done a few of those, I like
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to do a few kind of slower and
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then a few quicker now we’re going to advance.
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to here on the
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before we did our side planks like so
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Now we’re going to go ahead since this
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is our more advanced video. We’re going to go all the way up and
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we might build two to a
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dynamic here. Okay, so let’s give it a shot. Okay. So boom right
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there, see how far apart the feet are.
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The spine three two one
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now this time I’m just gonna switch right off.
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boom boom right there
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core
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Twist. Now, I’m gonna sideways. You
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don’t have to go like that. That kind of shows it a
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little bit.
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Just go right here three.
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two
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one switch twist
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getting those hips
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straight up and down ideally that straight up and down most importantly
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our spine.
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Stable right there. Okay, three two one.
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committing some stickers and
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three
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two
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one very good. Couple more. I have
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to keep adjusting my feet here.
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Now a bus now like a yoga pulse here.
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You don’t have to do that. Okay three.
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Two one just go
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like that might a couple
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more.
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This is the advanced course stability working that
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ql.
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quadratus lumborum
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all those abdominal muscles
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For what the heck? We’re gonna do a 10 second hold.
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strong shoulder stable shoulder
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stable spine reaching for the sky
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three
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two one and we’re
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gonna switch it off last one twist.
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hips up and down
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shoulders up and down
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and styles. Yeah, that’s a little much you just go like this you
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need to reach for the sky.
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Start of the 10 second hold and five
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hold strong hold strong. Look at
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those beautiful LaSalle mountains. Snowy Peaks
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floating in the distance. Three two, very
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good. Okay, very
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good. Okay. Well, that’s
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the side planks the most advanced version that we’re
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gonna engage with at this time, of course more and
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more will unfold in the
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coming weeks months and years, right? Okay. So
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let’s progress to our
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abdominal work up until
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now we’ve done just the real basic once again,
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of course neutral spine.
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Neutral spine pelvic tilts
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abdominal bracing that is holding strong. Not necessarily
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the transverse abdominalis dry in but
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just holding strong abdominal bracing. I know
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I always want to hold my head up. So it feels like I can talk to you
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better. Okay, but what we’re going to do now.
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Is just kind of hold up one abdominal bracing
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then we’re gonna lift up and block.
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Going to cradle just cradle.
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five hold a strong three
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two
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one relax
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cradle
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lift
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You know, that should probably receptacle actually let’s try that.
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two one very good.
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Set it down.
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Other arm, once again, you’re not pulling your head forward. You’re just
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cradling.
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You’re lifting that abdominal bracing then
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you’re lifting head neck shoulders
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up. Really the activation is right here
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five.
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four
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three
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One we’re counteracting the force that wants to
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torque our pelvis that way, okay.
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A couple more switch it off.
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I like to feel is check in.
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a couple of pelvic tilts
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neutral spine lift neutral spot
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four three
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two
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one relax
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Okay, almost done here. Hold five.
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four three
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two
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one last one
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lift five
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One relax, very good. Okay, well
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There’s video series after video series dedicated to
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abdominal work. But really that is the core right
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there. We’ll we’ll Advance on that. We’ll
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do more abdominal work in the future, but that that’ll do it for
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right now, and now we’re transitioning.
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Into our bird dog exercise. Once again,
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we’re always just gonna
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take a moment and check in here. I like just a rock
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back and forth a little bit.
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You know yoga you might tuck those.
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Tuck those toes under and sit way back and
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really go down and call that extended. Child’s pulls
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prayer pools relax there a little bit.
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Now if you’re flexion intolerant doing that would actually
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be bad. So you wouldn’t want to do that that much okay.
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So let’s just do a couple catches the classic
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here. Okay, once again cat
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cow
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cat
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this camera is a cow. I don’t know.
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cat
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camel cow what we’re doing here really is
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rounding out the lumbar spine.
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And then curving the lumbar spine to maintain our
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Mobility.
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That’s how we’re doing. Is it potato or potato?
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It doesn’t matter? Okay, here we go.
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Now our transitioning to the full bird dog before we’ve
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just done one at a time. Maybe low arm or
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maybe just low leg if you need to do
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that at any time, then you stay back where your body says.
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You need to limit yourself. That’s fine. But for right now,
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I’m gonna do the full thing. So let’s say right arm
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out.
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Left leg out stretching out with those fingertips driving
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down with that heel and
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once again not overdoing it that hip. No you’re fighting
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this instability.
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We’re fighting for stability three
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more seconds two.
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One very good.
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Let’s do the other one.
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left arm
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right leg. I like to drive the
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heel cock the toe.
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Imagine there’s a string pulling those fingers forward.
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three
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two one very good this
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time. We’re going to go for a longer hold. Let’s do a
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10 second hold. Okay, because that’s really most of these exercises are
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contrast to Dynamic. Okay
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these contrast
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these exercises are static because they
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are stability exercises that are meant to
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hold you steady.
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all of our postural exercises
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Are long acting?
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They maintain stability over prolonged periods.
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We’ll switch it off.
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So advancing with the stability exercises
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is not necessarily doing more reps.
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You might do a little more reps, but it’s definitely drive
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that heel.
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Reach forward with that those fingers.
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It’s adding time.
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Endurance we’re building endurance to
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our muscles to maintain the correct posture. That’s really
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the whole point. Okay?
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And this is great work.
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Thank you for joining me today in Moab, Utah.
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Let’s do just a couple more because it’s going so well, okay.
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Drive it out there drive that heel.
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stretching forward
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maintaining a stable spine
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five more seconds
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four three
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two
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one very good.
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one of us unamas
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drive out that left arm.
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Right here.
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10
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9 hold that stability
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very good
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Very good checking in with your body.
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Make sure you’re not looking out too much. You’re not sagging you’re
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stable.
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three two
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one very good.
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Well that conclude today’s series for
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the McGill Big 3 our core stability exercises.
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Once again, the basic core stability exercises
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should be almost done every single day. If not
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every day three five seven times a week
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once these get easy to you. You can
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progress as you need to most importantly is that
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you’re just doing them. Okay. So keep up the good work take
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care of yourself and be well.