Love your videos! Found them to be practically useful. I'd like to share something that seems to help reorganizing disorganized muscles/joints and that's asymmetric loading. For example, carrying a single dumbbell up and down stairs. It seems to help immensely.
Can you please recommend some exercises. I've always felt like my chronic back pain was related to my hips and pelvis, but all the typical hip/back-pain strengthening exercises have not been working for me. Thanks!
I came to this conclusion last week. My recurring back injury is apparently due to a complete lack of rotational mobility on my left femur. I've tried internal rotation mobilizations, banded, quadruped, etc. I'm making no progress. My back pain has subsided with your back tweak rotation/counter rotation fix. That and I have not squatted in 2 weeks. But the femur isn't improving and I'm now getting back pain with all the rehab exercises I've tried.
There may be a metabolic component as well. High insulin, high Omega 6 (especially the standard denatured type), low magnesium, and high iron (in the tissues, where it is almost never measured) can all drive cellular inflammation. Magnesium and calcium work together in an antagonistic way. Magnesium deficiency means calcium overload. Calcium is basically chalk... cement. Magnesium is basically the Beyond Michael Jordan nutrient of the body. It needs to be attached to ATP as Mg-ATP, or ATP is worthless to the cell. Magnesium in biology -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_in_biology . About 25% of all the protein types in you body have a magnesium binding site to optimize protein function. Vitamin D metabolism is completely dependent on magnesium in at least two different steps. Other nutrients are important, but if magnesium is deficient, you've lost the game -- at least that's my take off of the physiology of magnesium. Excess Omega 6 fatty acids can cause pain problems as well. I had a friend who was playing tennis at a high level at around 43 years old. He went down to the national tennis tournament in mixed doubles and won the only match he played. Anyway, he had played tennis since he was 17. And from day one, he always had some amount of pain in his arm/shoulder (not sure which, maybe both). After taking high-dose IFOS 5-Star fish oil in his early to mid-40's, he was playing pain free for the first time in his life. By that time he had already given up sodas and was mostly drinking water. Even so, he still had pain until he was able to balance out his Omega 6 / Omega 3 ratio to reduce his cellular inflammation. I've used OmaPure because they have been the best bang for the buck that I could find. I will only ingest IFOS 5-Star approved fish oils. I don't trust the others that haven't been tested, and I have a bad reaction at high doses of another type of fish oil. Having said that, I'm convinced high dose fish-oil is a hack, and it is better to reduce omega 6's, especially the standard toxic ones (Fats that Heal and Fats that Kill, Udo Erasmus). Also, literal microscopic rusty iron filings are added to processed foods, cereal being one of the worst offenders, and that oxidizes parts of you just like is oxidizes (rusts) everything else when oxygen is involved. Iron in Cereal Video -- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HGbwFtmJOi4.html Iron behaving badly: iron as contributor to inflammatory and degenerative diseases -- bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1755-8794-2-2 Summary of Rogue Iron Accumulation in the Human Body -- veritascontent.blob.core.windows.net/audio/YTC_Archive/ytc010719-MorleyRobbins.mp3 Morley Robbins - My Theory Of Everything -- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Iq94ROB5qEs.html
I miss the input from earlier years meaning during this video I d have appreciated to talk about the ideal position when sitting and standing for the optimal movement pattern between femur and pelvis.
I like to think of sitting at a desk or in a car as doing a yoga pose poorly for long enough that your body gets really good at using structural leverage (with elbows on a desk, or lumbar against support, or hamstrings grabbing the top of a slanted seat). I try to borrow from athletic training to keep the leg and pelvis relationship on while sitting. I sit or drive with a yoga block between my legs as if I'm performing boat pose or swimming with a block between my legs and I switch it up with an exercise band around my legs like when I'm training for a better squat. I don't drive with a band around my legs :-)
When I lie down my feet tend to turn a little inward rather than outward, it was more pronounced when I was younger but it's still that way to a decent extent, is this indicative of a problem?
