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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.

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.

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

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

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

It is an easy exercise to get lazy with and perform incorrectly stealing away its benefits.

This month we’re going to add a low impact cardio challenge that can be scaled for any level of participant.

Individuals who engaged in regular physical activity had a 50% lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than those who were sedentary.

This workout can be done in 5-10 minutes making it a very doable habit to incorporate throughout your week.

The gap between those with low fitness versus those just above average was a 60-70% reduction.

All it takes to commit is 3 times a week for 1 month. This flow can be done within 5 minutes, and with consistency you will notice a change