Have the athlete stand and reach with one leg out to the side, keeping the foot just off the ground. You may allow the athlete to gently tap their foot at the end reach, however, don’t allow her to distribute any weight onto the foot.
Notice the difference in this athlete’s neck before and after a BKE Integration session. In the before, you can see a flatness to the neck. In the after, it has a nice curvature to it, or lordosis. His first cervical vertebrae, the atlas, was misaligned by being protracted, or forward.
What makes you you?
Your are a combination of Biology (Nutrition, Physiology, Chemistry), Kinetics (Structure and Movement), and Energy (Electrical, Mental, Emotional, Beliefs, Relationships, etc). Anything that affects one of these three areas will affect the others.
A great thing to do, especially in the cold winter months, is to make a homemade vegetable broth. It is a great way to get a potent dose of minerals and electrolytes. It will help replenish you from hard winter workouts and it taste freaking delicious.
The hips and lumbar spine should act as a shock absorber when landing from jumping, running, and even walking. In the before video, you can see her pelvis tilts to the left upon landing, creating intense and damaging forces on the disks of the lower back…