Ok, I don’t want COVID-19 politics to eat into my blog, at least not too much. Therefore, today I will write out the opening speech for my next video. Usually I speak everything completely free from my heart, without teleprompter or script or anything like that. But I figure if I don’t pull myself together (literally) this video will just linger about and the month will pass, and how will I pay my rent then? So here is my writeup for the intro.
I noticed something quite extraordinary about the core and the core muscles:
As you can see a light press against the right side of the belly makes the skin on the same side right next to the belly button bulge up.
This means that even the slightest compression of the right side is pushing so much against the midline, that it causes the skin, the soft tissue, the superficial muscles, and probably even the deeper muscles to be pressed together and being bulged up against the midline.
This made me realise that we can use this to address conditions such as diastasis recti, lower back pain, pelvic alignment, and upright posture.
And even better, I know the perfect exercise just for that. In fact, I will show you an exercise sequence that is so nice, you will feel almost ecstatic.
We will start in side-lying on the left side, and
[On screen bullet points]
- Activate the right side
- Activate the left side
- Buttonhole stitch
- Upright posture and walking
- first activate the right side in a way that uses the full body, including your breathing,
- then secondly, we will activate the left side with an unusual, surprising, slightly different strategy,
- then as a third step we will turn around to side-lying on the right side, and improve on what we already did, almost as with the extra loop in a buttonhole stitch to secure fabric more firmly,
- and lastly we will observe how all this can be used in sitting, standing, and walking.
Alright, so we will start in side-lying, please come to lie on your right side.
