When bending, reach with your arms, not your back.
Seeing a theme here? The position doesn’t matter. The the back stays back in relation to the arms, the arms reach forward from the back. Standing, Sitting, and above.
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Dynamic oppossitions.
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With stimulus of sit,stand,walk,bend think of neck going back head going forward and up and back(torso) going back and up and knees going away from hips(torso) and base of the feet into the ground and shoulders going out to the side and arms lengthening ,’one after the other all together’ , DAILY.
Reach with your arms
OR
With stimulus of sit,stand,walk,bend think of neck going back head going forward and up and back(torso) going back and up and knees going away from hips(torso) and base of the feet into the ground and shoulders going out to the side and arms lengthening ,’one after the other all together’ , DAILY.
‘BEWARE OF TRAP’.
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