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The basic movement patterns that train your lower half—squatting, hinging, lunging—produce the greatest metabolic response. Most importantly, having a strong lower half is the best way to protect your body from the most common pain points: low back pain and knee pain.
Scott H Hogan • Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body
energy, qualities include sudden, sustained, bound, free, light, heavy, direct, and indirect.4 Four basic movement qualities offer good practice for energetic range: sustained, pendular (swinging), vibratory, and abrupt. As you dance each, you can access low through high energy, expanding your capacity for dynamic range.
Andrea Olsen • The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making
The myokinase system ekes out some energy by breaking off another phosphate group from the “A-frame.”
Pavel Tsatsouline • The Quick and the Dead: Total Training for the Advanced Minimalist
Movement qualities and images arise through perceptions that have internal markers related to external circumstances. Soma and psyche as reflexive refers us to somatic
Catherine Schaeffer • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
Professor Richard Johnson, author of the book Nature Wants Us to Be Fat, is convinced that the evidence for this is overwhelming, and he thinks the biological fat switch is contained in fructose. In hibernating and migratory animals, as well as in humans, Johnson has discovered the fructose package. When this package is unwrapped in the cell, it
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Ecology
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As we progress from the mid-stance phase to heel-lift and propulsion, the foot begins to re-supinate and passes through a neutral position when the propulsive phase begins; the foot continues in supination through toe-off. As a result of the foot supinating during the mid-stance propulsive period, the foot is converted from a “mobile adaptor”
... See moreJohn Gibbons • The Vital Glutes: Connecting the Gait Cycle to Pain and Dysfunction
Think of slow hybrid running as a shuffle run in which you generate force by moving your hips in a scissors-like action while moving your knees through a small range of motion. Spend as little time on the ground as