Too Much Neck During Breathing? - USE THIS CUE! - (Case Study, Explanation, & Guided Practice) 

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Too much neck activity when breathing is common. The usual reason for this is improper use of the diaphragm during inhalation.
There's a lot of reasons for a lack of diaphragm activity, but the most common is an inability to relax the diaphragm during exhalation and then to oppose contraction during inhalation.
If we restore these dynamics, then everything else tends to fall into place.
However, the difficulty can often be in feeling the diaphragm since it is such a deep muscle. The way we can do this is to infer diaphragm activity by tapping into the feeling of compressing the guts.
So in this video, we discuss breathing down to expand up. This is a way for us to sense this abdominal compression and learn to use air (not neck activity) to expand rather than lift the rib cage.
00:00 - Intro
01:19 - Muscular Activity During Breathing
02:16 - Orientation vs. Expansion
03:44 - Better Cues for Expansion
06:36 - Guided Practice
07:53 - Troubleshooting
08:55 - Next Steps