Targetting Specific Muscle Groups
Find the part that you want to target and away you go
3 Welcome to toning every muscle of our posterior chain
Good for upper back and middle back strength: Lying face down; extending through the back, legs, hamstrings, buttocks and quads, triceps and swan dive
4 The wonder of the Hips
Good for hips: Lying on side; deep stabilisers of hips, outer thighs, inner thighs, breath to lumbar spine
7 Making the neck feel good
Sitting throughout . Breath. Stretches for the neck, turns, tilts and releasing into the hand increasing mobility, roll downs sitting working the lats and mobilising the spine. A wonderful way to balance your neck and spine.
8 Looking after our feet
(Chair, golf ball and table top, or similar) Massaging the feet over a golf ball, calf stretches, noticing imbalances through individual foot rises and individual foot curls, strengthening and mobilising the feet. (Look at session 75 to easily and passively align the big toes with an everyday office elastic band).
9 Feeling and Finding the abdominals from the inside out
(Bath towel and cushion) Finding the deep abdominals, using the resistance of the cushion and then teasing the core. Adding the movers, the side oblique fibres and the six pack, and then consciously engaging them all to roll up with ease and fluidity, and against gravity, with no tension in the neck or shoulders.
12 Understanding the Plank
Building layer upon layer from the inside out, into full plank with circles
13 Using an Isotoner to relieve the neck and lengthen and strengthen the spine
Breath, length, resistance. Placing and strengthening the neck, spine and sides
15 Creating happy knees
Ideal for knees, strengthening the stabilisers and toning the muscles associated with the knee
25 Full Body including Rotator Cuff, Feet, Neck, Lats
Suitable for all. Stretching, connecting, swan, shoulder bridge, hip flexor release
31 Relief and aligning the wrists letting the carpal tunnel breathe
Session to ease the hand, wrist, fingers. Giving the carpals and median nerve space to be.
32 Understanding and relieving symptoms of Sciatica
This session gives the sciatic nerve space to live alongside the muscles near it. The hip rotators and particularly the piriformis that originates from the front of the sacrum and inserts into the top of the thigh bone, the bit you feel, from the inside out, as the hip. Good to do video 33 too.
33 Comforting the hip
Mobilising the hip and mobilising, strengthening and toning the muscles including the deep stabilising glute. The glute medius is important for the stabilising the pelvis and hip and, when toned, has been studied to make us faster walkers and runners. A supported pelvis will prevent your spine from strain, too.