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Primal Movement For Beginners | Movement Flow For Beginners | Flow Motion Fitness

Primal movement flows have always looked like so much fun. But where do you start, and how do you begin practicing without feeling silly?

Follow Along Primal Movement Flow

I would definitely call myself a beginner at primal movement, I don’t do it often, but I have practiced and learned certain flows that happen to be a combination of some functional training methods, and others are just…

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Advanced Hip Flexibility | a 10 Minute Routine To Test Your Hip Movement | Flow Motion Fitness

Many of you will already know I am rather obsessed with hip mobility. Not only has it been a major factor in my back and knee rehabilitation, but it is also a great aid in skill acquisition.

There is a huge amount more to hip mobility than just this but I found lots of people enjoyed the challenge! It consists of a variation of cossack squat and dragon squat progressions, followed by some hip…

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#essential hip flexibility movement #hip cars #how to prepare for squats with herniated discs

5 Minute Movement Break | The Busy Persons Movement Practice | Flow Motion Fitness.

Can a 5 minute movement break really make a difference? If you are a super busy person, a 5 minute movement practice can make all the difference! Over time, 5 minutes can really add up! Say you do 2x 5 minute movement practices per day? That adds up to 70 minutes per week, 280 minutes per month and 3360 minutes per year! That is a total of 56 HOURS A YEAR! That’s an equivalent of doing 4.6 days…

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What Muscles Are Used In Core Exercises? Rotation Exercises For Core CONTROL | Flow Motion Fitness

Rotational exercises for core control are becoming more popular. You will know by now that the core does not only consist of the middle of your body, but also encompasses your shoulder and hip joints, as well as the control and mobility involved with your spine. In this article we will cover what the core is, why it is important, and examples of rotational control exercises that will hit your…

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Deadlift Form For Beginners + What Is A Hip Hinge? | What you need to know | Flow Motion Fitness

For many people starting out with training, deadlift form can be one of the most tricky movements to master. The reason for this is because of the hip hinge. Many of us sit for prolonged periods of time, or we simply do not have enough variation in our movement when we do physical activity, (sometimes both). This means that we rarely use our hips and spine to their full potential. Hip hinging is…

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Tight Chest Muscles Causing Shoulder Pain? How to Gain Chest Full Range of Motion | Flow Motion Fitness

If you’re stuck at a desk with your arms forward all day (causing your chest muscles to ‘shorten’), or if you do more push than pull exercises, you could have chronically tight chest muscles. There are many reasons of course for tight chest muscles, but I won’t list them all! If you have experienced it, you will notice that stretching doesn’t quite cut it.

Tight Chest Muscles?

This is where…

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Are My Shoulders Healthy? A Shoulder Pain Strategy To Better Shoulder Movement | Flow Motion Fitness

If you’ve ever had any upper back, neck or shoulder pain, you will probably be wondering, where did this pain come from and how can I fix it?

The first thing to look into is what is your main area that is restricted in movement.

A very simple way to test your overall shoulder range of motion is by performing Shoulder CARs (Controlled Articular Rotations), and Scapula CARs, (video’s shown…

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Adductor Exercises at Home: how using middle split exercises can help elevate back pain and increase squat depth | Flow Motion Fitness

Adductor mobility training (a.k.a strengthening end ranges) has been a tool I have used for increasing squat depth and decreasing back pain in my clients for years. Not only do these exercises carryover to some cool skills like Chinese split holdsand a better middle split, but they have been reported to help with squat depth and reduced back pain. The following article and video consists of…

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How To Pistol Squat On Bad Knees - A Guide To Single Leg Squats For Beginners | Flow Motion Fitness.

How To Pistol Squat On Bad Knees – A Guide To Single Leg Squats For Beginners | Flow Motion Fitness.

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How to pistol squat on bad knees

I am writing this post because, as someone who has suffered with countless knee injuries and damage from ski training, I never thought I would be pistol squatting, but alas, I am!

Now I am not saying go ahead and pistol squat if you have bad knees! The rehabilitation process takes time but it doesn’t mean that you cannot aim for eventually…

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Is Sitting Bad For Your Hips? A Detailed Look At The Cause Of Hip Pain While Sitting

In this post we are going to cover how chairs affect our hips & health, what we can do to combat hip and back pain from sitting & how to address these imbalances through working out.

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Are chairs bad for your hips? The History of Sitting

Humans have been sitting for thousands of years; chairs have been around since at least the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt (c. 3100 BC). This…

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Scapular CARs | Shoulder Mobility | Want Healthy Shoulders? Learn This

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How to Cossack Squat | Progressions | In Depth Tutorial

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Why you CAN'T JUST STRETCH to get longer hamstrings. The Flexibility, Mobility & Strength Routine YOU NEED if you want change.

Why you CAN’T JUST STRETCH to get longer hamstrings. The Flexibility, Mobility & Strength Routine YOU NEED if you want change.

So, maybe you are wondering why you can’t just stretch to get longer hamstrings? Well, you can…if you want to take years of unnecessary strangle and pain to get there. And then have no strength, balance or control over your newly lengthened legs…

The truth is, passive stretching is NOT the fastest way to get flexible, its…

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Hamstring Flexibility Routine (Follow Along)

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Transverse movements are often FORGOTTEN about!

The human body is made to move bi-laterally, a lot of exercise and rehabilitation work can lack this rotational aspect. We run, walk, throw and climb bi-laterally, yet…when is the last time you went to do your workout and did an entire bi-lateral session? Probably never. Most of us squat, bench, row & even bicep curl fixed to a straight bar. Movement in the gym can be very flat, one dimensional…

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Mobility Madness? It is starting to feel like a fad with everyone jumping on the bandwagon, but there is some real science behind why you should look for a qualified and experienced coach.

I have kept pretty quiet over the last few months, watching coaches rip apart other coaches on what is ‘correct’ and what is ‘misleading’. It has been sad to see many coaches simply rip people apart for calling an exercise or stretch ‘mobility’ when they think it is not. Of course, there is real terminology and method behind the mobility movement, but when it comes to getting picky with words I…

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#injury prevention #mobility #movement #pain reduction #training

The science of Warming Up: 3 easy ways to ensure you get a good warm up to prevent injuries.

Have you ever noticed how your workout goes so much better if you dedicate a decent amount of time to warming up? I have not updated this blog in years and I just noticed how much I miss writing a blog! So, here I am, back at it! I will upload another more personal post soon & hope that some of my readers are still here somewhere!

So, back to warming up, there was a study done by Fradkin et al.…

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