Alignment - Look
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- 00:00
- So, uh, the final, uh, key to giving yourself feedback
- 00:02
- besides feeling it, is knowing how to see it.
- 00:05
- And, um, it's helpful if you can look in the mirror
- 00:08
- and say, am I doing it right or not?
- 00:10
- And as an example, if you look at my hips,
- 00:14
- oops, that's not my hips.
- 00:16
- If you look at my hips,
- 00:22
- uh, is this straight or not?
- 00:24
- That's actually a hard question to answer.
- 00:30
- Um, but if you've got something to cue your eyes,
- 00:33
- and I'm gonna use a tape measure,
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- and I, if I hold the tape measure,
- 00:40
- let's see if I can do this right here.
- 00:44
- I want you to notice, and let's make this shirt tighter,
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- that here we go.
- 00:53
- That there's that small crook,
- 00:57
- uh, in my low back.
- 00:59
- And if I tilt my hips underneath,
- 01:02
- now it's more through the middle.
- 01:04
- So this is well aligned.
- 01:06
- This is, I'm arching in my back,
- 01:10
- well aligned, arching in the back.
- 01:13
- So it's not that the curve in your low back goes away,
- 01:16
- but rather that you feel that the, the hip has,
- 01:20
- this is well aligned through the middle.
- 01:22
- And having something as a cue to compare,
- 01:25
- like, let's see, where is it?
- 01:27
- Sorry, the, uh, here we go.
- 01:29
- Well, aligned versus arching in the low back
- 01:32
- makes it a lot more obvious.
- 01:34
- And that's not just true for your, for your low back.
- 01:37
- It can be true for your upper back as well.
- 01:39
- So that as we're here,
- 01:46
- Yeah, let me adjust.
- 01:47
- So you can see, for example, right now,
- 01:51
- you can ask the question,
- 01:53
- is my upper back well aligned with my hips?
- 01:57
- And actually I'm leaning back a little bit.
- 02:01
- And so now it's better aligned.
- 02:04
- You can see sort of the middle of my shoulder aligned more
- 02:08
- with the middle of the hip,
- 02:09
- with it going straight through the back.
- 02:11
- Whereas here, my shoulder just slid backwards.
- 02:18
- So the key story is that I want you to pay attention, not
- 02:22
- to the outline of the body, you know, the front or the back,
- 02:25
- but pay attention to the middle
- 02:27
- and how the middle of your shoulder lines up with the middle
- 02:30
- of your hips and the middle of your head lines up, then,
- 02:35
- uh, with a shoulder.
- 02:38
- And finally, I, I, we have show and tell.
- 02:42
- Um, so two things that I use as passive tools.
- 02:45
- One is, uh, a head weight.
- 02:47
- Actually, I got from a chiropractor. It has these,
- 02:48
- uh, metal bars in front.
- 02:50
- And I'm a, I'm a posture geek.
- 02:53
- And so I'll wear this head weight, uh, not a lot, but some.
- 02:57
- And then because there are these head weights in the front,
- 03:00
- you feel that extra weight pulling your head forward
- 03:01
- and you say, well, to balance it, what do I have to do?
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- And then that helps you, helps you pull your head back
- 03:11
- and then better align it.
- 03:12
- And then I also have this,
- 03:13
- and you can Google a sacral wedgie and the sacral wedgie.
- 03:17
- Here, I'll, I'll give you a demo. Demo on the video.
- 03:21
- Uh, a sacral wedgie.
- 03:23
- The basic idea is that you'd put it on the floor, uh,
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- like this, and then you'd put your scrum on it,
- 03:37
- and then you'd lay down and it would gently, uh,
- 03:40
- pull your pelvis down and into this different position.
- 03:43
- And if you lay on it for, you know, whatever, 10 minutes,
- 03:46
- 15 minutes, um, you, you will notice a difference.
- 03:50
- Thank you.
