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Mobility As A Skill Ep. 5 – The Only Mobility Drill You’ll Ever Need To Do

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How we move our 5 appendages (2 arms, 2 legs, head/neck) is a direct reflection of how our thorax functions.

He has more to worry about than the average human.

Your body will take the path of least resistance when it comes to both breathing and movement.

Chances are that you’ve already adopted new breathing mechanics as the result of your body hunting for an easier, more accessible range of motion.

For example, do you have trouble breathing and swinging your arms when you run? — Not a problem. Just round those shoulders forward and voila!

You can now breathe up into your neck and upper back. You’ve just adopted a new breathing pattern that has adapted according to your new range or motion (or lack-thereof).

 

Breathing regulates movement.

Think about that for a second. The way you breathe determines the way you move.

Running Lungs

What you’ve done over the course of hundreds of thousands of billions of breaths and countless training sessions, without noticing of course, is created an easier position to move and breathe for the activities you do most. In the above example: running or sprinting.

Consistently and stressfully working within limited ranges will cultivate unorganized breathing mechanics and therefore unorganized movement.

If you’re stuck in a bad breathing pattern, it’s safe to say you’re not moving too well. The bad breathing pattern and therefor movement pattern, while not only paving the proverbial path to achy knees, shoulders, ankles, hips and necks, will also bring forth a laundry list of negative psychological symptoms such as:

  • Increased sympathetic “fight or flight” response

  • Increased anxiousness

  • Impaired nerve conduction (aka ability to pass along signals)

  • Vasoconstricts peripheral and Gastrointestinal (GI) vessels

  • Restricts circulation in cerebral cortex (brain)

  • Shunts blood flow peripherally (to the arms and legs)

  • Impairs coronary arterial flow

  • Promote fatigue, weakness, irregular heart rate, etc.

  • Impairs breathing and weakens diaphragm contractility

  • Increases the overuse of “thoracic breathing”

  • Enhances peripheral neuropathic symptoms

  • Enhances sympathetic adrenaline activity and hypersensitivity to lights and sounds

  • Increases phobic dysfunction, panic attacks, restless leg syndromes, heightened vigilance, etc…

  • Facilitates catastrophic thinking and hypochondria

 

Use it or lose it

The diaphragm is the best anterior core muscle EVER because of it’s insertion on the anterior surface of the vertebrae. It’s not news that if we get our core functioning properly our upper and lower body have a solid foundation to work from and transfer force through, this ultimately eliminates injury (in an ideal world). So why not help the diaphragm do it’s job?

We know that using the complete range of motion of a muscle is better for strength gains and mobility, so let’s apply those same techniques to the best core muscle ever, the diaphragm!

If we successfully train the diaphragm, or even simply use the diaphragm to it’s full capacity it can help us have better thorax function. How many of us suffer from joint pain? – The root cause could be your dysfunctional thorax.

Remember how I said before that our appendages work only as well as our thorax does. This is no theory. Use your diaphragm to its full capacity to breathe more efficiently and….check out the video, you’ll see what I mean.

 

 

 Speaking of restoring movement. Be sure to sign up for…

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Stay on the lookout for episode #6 of  ‘Mobility As A Skill’ and make sure to reserve your spot by signing-up for the FREE seminar at CoreXcellence!

 Click Here to watch episode 1 of Mobility As A Skill - Squat Like You Used To

 Click Here to watch episode 2 of Mobility As A Skill – How To Fix Tight Hamstrings

Click Here to watch episode 3 of Mobility As A Skill - Rotate Better Than Tiger Woods

Click Here to watch episode 4 of Mobility As A Skill - Fix Shoulder Pain By Putting Your Hands Overhead

 

Yours in movement,

Rich


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