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It involves all of the muscles in the core, hips and legs building coordination, strength, balance and stability.

Your weight distribution throughout the moments of those activities is predominantly on one leg or the other. 

Build intraabdominal pressure creating greater structural integrity much like the can of pop. 

This exercise can help expose an imbalance as well as help restore even tensions between sides. 

If the portion of the sling containing the abdominal obliques is weak or slack, other sections of the line need to take up that slack.

Think of these muscles like a brake controller.  The opposing tension helps create space easing the joint into place as it moves.

The position of the femur (thigh bone), being the bone resting on top of the tibia transferring load down the chain will affect the tibia.

This exercise gives you great bang for your buck incorporating functional stability work in the hip while targeting the medial hamstrings.

Our bodies will compensate joint to joint to distribute load so we can remain upright or balanced in a position we are trying to maintain.

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As rib mobility on one side diminishes, we begin to re-enforce the poor pattern every time we take a breath.  And we do need to breathe.

The hip airplane is a great as it’s loading pattern is similar to what is experienced with functional movements such as walking.

You ask 5 different practitioners and you’re likely to get 5 different answers.  Why is that?

“What kind of tasty delights are going to be suggested here?”  Bubble burst!  Exercise is the “snack” that deals with the real snacks.

The subscapularis plays a significant role in preventing forward shear forces at the shoulder joint.

This video highlights a basic exercise that puts more focus on the supraspinatus, the most commonly injured of the 4 rotator cuff muscles.

Icing is a popular accepted procedure regardless of the fact that there have never been any conclusive findings to support it.

The fascial slings comprised of multiple muscles and like these bands creating tension and holding the bones in place.

Loading one leg at a time maximizes the use of the muscles we are targeting.

Nature always seeks out balance in the most efficient way possible.