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I want to take you through some diaphragmatic breathing. So this is belly breathing. This is just going to help your core function a lot better.
So what we're going to do is, I want you to start . . . we're going to put your hand on your chest, one hand on your stomach. And I want you to take a c...
Let's go ahead and bring your right foot out to the side. Slide it out. Keep that knee nice and still. Good. And let's see the left foot. Let's do both feet at the same time. And let's do internal rotation on the right and keep that foot, nice and flat. So that's really limited. Let’s go ahead on...
For diaphragmatic breathing in half kneeling, go ahead and place one foot up so that your knee is at a right angle and your hip is right above your knee on your down leg. Go ahead and place a hand on your chest and a hand on your stomach. Take a deep breath in so that your hand on your chest is n...
For hands and knees to three point transition phase two, start by bringing your foot up to your hand and then bring your arms overhead. Get up nice and tall and then come on down and bring your leg straight back. Being sure to fully extend the knee and then come back and repeat that position.
For diaphragmatic breathing in tall kneeling, place one hand on your chest and one hand on your stomach.Take a deep breath in and you should feel all the movement coming from your stomach, so the hand on your chest should not move at all, while the one on your stomach moves out forward.
So once you're in the position, you're going to bend the knee up and you can use a strap a belt or even a sheet at home. And then go ahead and kick out against that belt so that you're getting a little resistance there. Good. And then relax and gently pull that up just a little bit farther. And t...
So now we're going to take a look at her internal rotation passively. We saw what it was when she was doing it actively. She was really limited in internal rotation. So we're going to show you the passive test of this. We're just going to bring her hip up to 90. I like to get in here kind of cup ...
For shoulder flexion isometrics, place a towel underneath your arm and then get your shoulder blades down and back with really good posture. Then bend your elbow so it's at 90 degrees and push into the doorframe for 10s. Relax and repeat.
For banded ankle dorsiflexion, make sure that your down knee is forward so you're not stretching the hip, and then takes a band that's attached to a sturdy object and pull it all the way down low on the ankle. And then what you're going to do is making sure the knee is going out. You should still be...
For diaphragmatic breathing, go ahead and put one hand on your chest and one hand on your stomach and take a deep breath in. We want all the movement to be coming from the stomach, so your hand on your chest should be staying nice and still, while the one on your stomach is moving up toward ...
