The Breathing Strategy Hierarchy

A couple of years ago Bill Hartman opened my mind to a new way of assessing someone’s movement needs. Since then, Through Bill and Zac’s work, I’ve developed a movement assessment that helps my clients move better. When clients move well, progressing them to lifting comes with little to no problems.

This morning while running on 5ish hours of sleep, jet lagged, and after too much coffee, I decided to take the students through my thought process when picking breathing activities for my clients. I will be refining this and adding the lower extremities, but in the meantime, learn what breathing and arm position a client needs when picking activities.

Also, sorry for the gum chewing :O

ENJOY! and let me know if it helps, or if it didn’t and you’re still confused. If this doesn’t make sense, I will find a better way of explaining it.

Before you watch this, if you’re new to this whole breathing thing, watch this video, and check out my article on it, first!

 

The End of Dieting – Interview with Kelsey Flanagan

Are 30 day challenges where you cut out certain foods or follow a certain diet a thing that we should stop encouraging? If we’re wanting our clients to get results they can sustain, are we better off helping our clients change their relationship with food vs encouraging another diet?

In this interview, Kelsey shares her nutrition approach she takes with clients. The results say it all:

Learn about Kelsey’s approach, start implementing a few things she talks about with your clients, or find someone like her to work with your clients if things are out of your skill set.

Where to find Kelsey:

Her website: https://kelseyflanagannutrition.com/

Instagram account: @kelseyflanagannutrition

Facebook Account: https://www.facebook.com/kelsey.flanagan.180

Courses/businesses mentioned if you want to take the route she took:

Precision Nutrition

Hormone Specialist Training 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixing Upper-Body Lifts with Breathing

I want my clients’ upper-body lifts to look good. When they look good we can really add load and increase their strength. If they fall apart and complain that it hurts, we can’t really progress.

During this webinar, I go over the mistakes I made early on that left me with little to no results. I go over what I do now to get my client’s shoulder mobility to increase and their pushing and pulling to look good 🙂

If you struggle understanding all this crazy breathing stuff, this webinar is PERFECT for you.

Enjoy!

Resources mentioned in the webinar:

(let me know if I forgot one)

A Safe Training Environment for Scared Rehab Clients

Do you work with the post rehab/chronic pain population? I’m sure you get a few who are scared of strength training, who think their body is fragile and only capable of low level activities like yoga and pilates.

How do you gain their trust and progress them through a program without them feeling like your training is going to hurt them?

Below is a video of my protocol for these types of clients. How I take them from scared fragile clients to regular gym-goers 🙂

 

If you’re interested in learning more about pain, I’ve written about it here and here.

If you want to know more about studying your target market check out this post.

Until next time 🙂

Lucy