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SQUAT 2: TAP DOWNS

January 2, 2023 by Sarah

HOW TO SQUAT WITH WEIGHTS SQUAT 2: TAP DOWNS

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When your dance break buddy lives two time zones a

When your dance break buddy lives two time zones away you make do

Happy Sunday everyone

Make sure you take a dance break soon

10/10 no notes for @laurelbeversdorf Get our FRE

10/10 no notes for @laurelbeversdorf

Get our FREE Barbell Equipment Guide and let’s take ourselves seriously and stop faffing about with weights that we’ve outgrown.

#timetowomanup. #yogiswholift #yogiswholiftheavy #womancrushsaturday

Just a woman and the love of her life 🏍️🏍️🏍️

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👕 @dainesela

#sv650s #womenwhoride

🤔Who’s gonna get stronger faster? 😩The o

🤔Who’s gonna get stronger faster?

😩The one who can squat as much as their arms can lift?

😀Or the one who can carry the weight dispersed along their upper back and by doing so, harness the strength of their legs?

✅✅✅If you’re ready to make the switch to barbells but need help, we’ve got you.

The @movementlogictutorials team has made you a Barbell Equipment Guide, with clear and easy suggestions for what to get when, as well as a variety of economic and space sensitive options.

🔗Link in bio to get our free guide PDF!!

This week on the @movementlogictutorials podcast,

This week on the @movementlogictutorials podcast, Sarah gets even deeper into the ins and outs of motor learning.

Specifically, further components that can be easily brought into your class to help your students’ and clients’ motor learning.

You will learn:

✅What is motor learning (a brief review)
✅Motor learning stages: cognitive, associative, automatic
✅3 new methods to improve motor learning separate from cueing
✅How Harry Styles' dancers displayed phenomenal skill at dealing with contextual interference at the Grammys this year

😀And more!

🔗 in bio to listen, rate, review and subscribe!

You don’t need a ton of space for a barbell at h

You don’t need a ton of space for a barbell at home (and it’s gonna save you 💰💰💰in the long run) (and and it’s less embarrassing when you have a dance break)

My home set up only requires about 8’x10’ using a portable rack!

Wanna figure out the best equipment set up for your wallet and your space?

Grab the @movementlogictutorials FREE Barbell Equipment Guide PDF download and let’s have a dense bone summer!

🔗 in bio - go get it!

🎉 It’s a party for your shoulders: revamp you

🎉 It’s a party for your shoulders: revamp your warm up with some banded scaption plane snow angels.

🏋🏻🏋️‍♂️ While you’re at it, revamp your home equipment with the @movementlogictutorials FREE barbell equipment guide (link in bio).

Happy Sat, friends.

💥In this fourth BONUS episode about cueing, I s

💥In this fourth BONUS episode about cueing, I sit down with Trina Altman to discuss the role creativity can and should play in our cues.

You will learn:

✅What are the essential components of creativity
✅How teaching is an inherently creative occupation
✅Using constraints to develop creativity in movement
✅The freedom of giving yourself permission to use what’s available in novel ways
✅Why simple cueing trumps flowery cueing for students
✅How your other movement methodologies can refresh your language choices
✅Why the best solution is the simplest solution most of the time
✅Why showing up as yourself is the most creative act you can do as a teacher
✅The value in teaching the same sequence multiple times to the same group
✅How studying a different modality can refresh your creativity in your teaching and cueing

🔗 in bio to give it a listen!

🙏🙌👏 TIA! #yogaclassesonline #onlineyogac

🙏🙌👏 TIA!

#yogaclassesonline #onlineyogaclasses #mobilityclasses #yogatherapy #movementtherapy #practiceyoga #movementlogic #pilatesinstructors #yogateachers #movementteacher #physicaltherapist #physiotherapy #physiotherapists #strengthconditioning #mobilitycoach #mobilitywod #worksmarternotharder #movementlogicpodcast #yogaalliance

🤔Why do we do 3 sets of 10? Is it: a) optimal

🤔Why do we do 3 sets of 10? Is it:

a) optimal loading for all your body’s needs
b) the most fun amount to do of anything
c) stop asking hard questions I’m almost done
d) none of the above

✅If you answered D, congratulations! Now go listen to the @movementlogictutorials podcast and find out the real reason (yes, there actually is one – but it might not be what you think!)

You’ll learn:

💥Where did the 3 x 10 protocol come from
💥How 3 x 10 has changed over time, in a significant departure from what it originally contained: progressive overload
💥How long held beliefs around effort level and pain created a rehab emphasis on volume over effort
💥Where RPE came from
💥The RPE - RIR relationship
💥Pros and Cons of using RPE - RIR versus 1RM in your strength training

And more!

🔗 in bio and don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

🎡Definitely Go Chasing Plated Windmills… Tr

🎡Definitely Go Chasing Plated Windmills…

Try this fun version using your barbell plates. I can usually do this with a 25lb DB or KB no problem, but as soon as the weight was dispersed over the breadth of the plate, sh!t got real!

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#ClinicalPearl’s last day was yesterday, and it

#ClinicalPearl’s last day was yesterday, and it was as calm and peaceful and stress-free for her as I could have hoped. She was my constant companion for almost the whole time I’ve lived here in LA; it’s going to be strange without her. She was stubborn, goofy, and sometimes a total lunatic, but she was a very good girl at heart. She is missed 💔❤️‍🩹💖

When I saw @carrieowerko’s super fun, graceful j

When I saw @carrieowerko’s super fun, graceful jump party, I knew I had to do a bone density remix!

Bones need stress to lay down more bone. And one of the ways to create sufficient stress for this to happen is with impact training.

Notice I didn’t say jumping or plyometrics, because not all plyometrics create impact. In fact, jumping and landing with grace, like Carrie, creates less stress than jumping and landing like a herd of elephants (me).

😬Does the bone density impact version feel like it’s going to rattle the teeth out of your head? Sure.

🤔Are you gonna want to jump like this for the rest of your life? Probably not.

✅Is it worth mixing into your own training, class, or private sessions? 💯💯💯

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You need an active component to 1) build new neura

You need an active component to 1) build new neural pathways and 2) get some muscle hypertrophy. The end.

💥Disagree? Let’s fight about it! Comment below! 😀

✋🛑😱Isn’t it DANGEROUS to lift with a hip

…So you might as well stop referring to whatever

…So you might as well stop referring to whatever you’re teaching in class as diaphragmatic breathing.

✋Let’s stop separating it all out, shall we? Cos from what I’m seeing, it’s doing more harm than good.

✅✅✅And yes, as requested, I’m creating a tutorial on How to Teach Breathing!

🔗Click the bio link, get on my mailing list, get some other good free stuff, and watch this space!

POP QUIZ TIME! Swipe left! When it comes to plyos

POP QUIZ TIME! Swipe left!

When it comes to plyos, it’s all about the stretch shortening cycle. This is a rapid pre-stretch of the muscle tendon unit (sometimes called the series elastic component) followed immediately by a powerful concentric or shortening phase.

In other words, there’s a wind up that quickly shifts to an explosive movement.

Plyometric exercise can include jumping but it is not limited to jumping.

In fact, plyometric exercise doesn’t have to include a landing phase / impact, at all!

We hear plyometrics are great for building bone. But what parameters must be met to build bone?

Does any plyometric exercise fullfill those parameters?

And, are there exercises that train impact but ARE NOT plyometric?

Listen to the latest episode of the Movement Logic Podcast to learn more.

ANSWERS!

1 - box jumps A
2 - drop landings B*
3 - static jumps B*
4 - broad jumps C*
5 - kettlebell swings A
6 - wall ball shots A
7 - jumping rope A**
8 - double unders C***

*bone building if forces on impact meet parameters for osteogenisis (bone building)

**there’s impact but it’s likely too low intensity to be osteogenic

***these fuckers are hard

LISTEN TO EPISODE 37 for more about these answers + a conversation between @sarahcourtdpt and I on the connection between plyometric exercise, impact training, and bone-building-exercise.

LINK IN BIO 👀

Don’t forget to S U B S C R I B E 👂

Ahimsa does not mean “I’m always comfortable.”

A few weeks ago, I posted about how I was seeing more and more patients, who had been told by yoga teachers to do 3-part breathing or other breath separating styles, and then demonstrated confused breath patterns with me. I said that yoga teachers should stop doing it, since it was messing people up, and focus on other breath techniques instead.

I got several comments that argued I should couch my frustration in a tone that was more gentle and easier to receive. That’s tone policing. It’s a way to redirect the actual harm that is being done back onto the person who is pointing it out. It’s the same as saying: It feels harmful to me that you’re pointing out all the harm I’ve been doing.

In the yoga world, tone policing is rampant, and it’s couched in a misuse of the concept of ahimsa, non-harming. I.e. “Don’t give feedback that is critical.”

If we examine the holistic practice of yoga, a large part of ahimsa is facing our own harmful behaviors, bringing the unconscious ones to light, not telling other people on the internet that you didn’t like how they said what they said.

And as my friend and colleague @yogawalla says, “I think when you do the actual inner work of yoga – you don’t expect to be comfortable all the time. Especially not on someone else’s IG page.”

💪Technique > no technique 🙌Big ups to @cole

💪Technique > no technique

🙌Big ups to @coleshannon7 from @alignptla for showing me that the 45lb bar wasn’t too heavy

🙌Big ups to @elizabethwipff for telling me it wasn’t too heavy

✅Do you want to get into barbells but don’t know where to start?

➡️Grab the @movementlogictutorials FREE Barbell Equipment Guide!

✅✅✅It’s got everything you need to know about what to get (and what not to get!).

🔗 in bio to snap it up!

😂😩😜 When you start a little too heavy…

😂😩😜 When you start a little too heavy… IYKYK

🤔But seriously – what is 1RM, and why should you care?

➡️1RM stands for 1 Rep Max, and it’s the amount of weight that you can lift once, but only once (as you see in the video!)

🧮You can then figure out (or let an online 1RM calculator do it for you) what weight you should lift to work at 70%, 80%, 90% of your max capacity.

✅And why should you care about that? Well, if you’re interested in DENSE BONES (and who isn’t) you need to be in that higher range.

➡️If all of this is intriguing to you, but you’re not sure how to get into it, make sure you’re following me and/or on my mailing list, cos @laurelbeversdorf and I have some goodies coming down the pike for you!

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