Alignment - Intro
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- I'm gonna be talking about what I think are the three,
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- maybe largest, most common, uh, things
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- to pay attention to for posture.
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- Uh, and so the first, actually, let's start, uh, bottom up.
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- I, well, actually, let's do big picture, big picture.
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- Um, here's David.
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- Just standing normally profile and my normal profile.
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- It's not bad, but it's not great either.
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- I mean, it's good, but it's not great.
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- So, for example, right here, my pelvis is a little tilted,
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- so I have a little extra bend in my low back.
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- My upper shoulder, uh, back is a hunched back,
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- and my head is hunched forward.
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- So here is fixing the pelvis,
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- here's fixing the upper back,
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- and then there's fixing the head.
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- And now I'm, I would assert in, in a better position.
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- Uh, and so then if we do a closeup,
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- let's see, uh, sorry, looking for the right closeup.
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- There we go. If we do a closeup, this is
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- David not doing anything particularly
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- special with his low back.
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- And that doesn't look so bad.
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- But I wanna observe that if you look at the midline,
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- it's actually going a little bit back there
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- and then goes straight again.
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- So instead that then has the line going
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- through the middle of the hip.
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- And so there's this sense of lifting up to create space
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- in the hips and
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- then sliding the hips under.
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- And I wanna distinguish that from tucking
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- where it goes into the low back.
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- So doing so if you're arched
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- and you do this, that's curling your hips underneath
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- rather than creating space
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- and changing the way that the pelvis rests on the hips.
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- And so, and you can also
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- see the difference in arch in my back.
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- There's still an arch in my back.
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- There's nothing wrong with an arch in the back,
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- but you want this middle line to be stacked.
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- Well, uh, next you can say, well,
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- let's look at our, uh, ribcage.
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- And in the rib cage it's pretty common.
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- And right now I have a little bit of flare through here.
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- So, so I had an old dance teacher who said,
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- your umbrella is open, right?
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- So that would be an open umbrella.
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- And
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- there's a closed umbrella.
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- Here's an open umbrella.
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- So if you're, so if I'm standing this way,
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- which would be sort of a lazy, not lazy, it's
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- an exaggerated version of the thing I have to fight, then
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- as I fix the pelvis, that helps with the ribcage.
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- But the ribcage still is a little arched.
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- And so I'll close it
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- and then you will see that my neck
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- is a little bit, uh,
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- head tilted forward rather than pulled back
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- and up along the back of the neck.
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- And so then here I would assert that this is a much more,
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- uh, vertical line
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- here than here.
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- And that's a small change, but it's also a big change.
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- Uh, so watch one more time.
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- I'll give you a semi closeup.
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- Let's zoom out.
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- Here we go. So here's David
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- standing quote, natural.
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- And then here's changing
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- how the pelvis sits on the hips, aligning the upper back.
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- And then notice that throws my head forward.
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- Sit the rib cage down,
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- and then this should be hopefully much straighter.
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- So three things to think about.
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- Lift up so that your pelvic can sit differently.
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- Don't let the rib cage v arch
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- or slumped back for that matter.
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- Uh, and then sit the head.
