JEEP relief ... ☀️_____________________☀️ I just figured out today that the front bumper and grill of a Wrangler is a wonderful place to sit and work on your posture...oh, and to work on Vitamin D levels! 🤗 ☀️_____________________☀️ SIT BONES! Or ischial tuberosities! Are you maintaining a neutral pelvis with your deep core as you hinge back? Focusing on the weight on your sit bones will not only tell you if you are putting more weight on one sit bone versus the other, but also lets you know if you're falling into a posterior or anterior tilt as you lean back, meaning you are making compensations. _____________________ MIDBACK FLEXIBILITY! As you hinge back to the point at which your upper/mid back touches the grill, use this as a guide to then hinge only at the point at which the grill touches your back. This is what I like to call a "mini mid back backbend". This helps to create mobility in your mid back, so you don't have to move as much in your low back, where there shouldn't be as much movement, which is a common cause of low back pain. If your low back touches the grill, then you know that you have fallen into posterior tilt with your pelvis in this exercise. Keeping the fingertips connected to the ears helps increase the challenge to the core, and works on the strength endurance of the shoulder stabilizers, which ultimately serves as a gentle pectoralis release (which generally does too much work). Also, keeping the fingertips behind the ears let's you know whether or not you are mobilizing from your mid back or your head. You want to keep your head fairly stable in this exercise, so that you're not working the neck extensors but the mid back extensors. Opening the arms to full flight allows you to feel a stretch in the biceps and open the pecs even more deeply, as you strengthen your deep cervical neck flexors by holding the head directly over the rib cage while leaning back. _____________________ #pectoral #pecrelease #chestflexibility #pectoralismajor #bicepsstretch #core #neutralspine #hingeback #teaserpilates #sitbones #ischialtuberosity #posteriortilt #anteriortilt #transverseabdominis #multifidi #corectology #ajfishertrainer #headposture
