The Other Side Of Fear

The Other Side Of Fear

Published by on August 31, 2018 | Leave a response

Hey EF Fam,

On the other side of fear is usually where all the magic happens.

On numerous occasions over the years I have had a client come up to me a year or so after they started training at EarthFit Body-Mind Transformation Center and by that point they had lost 20-30lbs, they were leaner, stronger, had more energy were feeling amazing and they would say something like “you know… I almost turned around when I was on my way to do the initial EF fitness assessment but I didn’t and I am so happy that I didn’t.”

It’s amazing the transformation that can occur when decisions are made based on love of self rather than fear.

“I am so impressed with the progress I have made Since starting EF a year ago! My strength, stamina Balance and weight loss have improved significantly. I was hesitant to start EF because of my age and wish I had been braver years ago. I wonder if you ever considered trying to encourage the 65+ age groups to NOT be afraid of starting this more rigorous fitness routine. Have thought of presenting talks on the benefits as well as stressing the close attention and supervision to avoid injuries given by the coaches.

Just a thought and an opportunity to say thank you for the joy I feel at age 76.”

Committed to your success,

Ian

Posted in Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,
Health and Fitness Beaufort: You Have The Power

Health and Fitness Beaufort: You Have The Power

Published by on July 26, 2018 | Leave a response

You have the power to change the world. Use it to make a difference. Here’s Alyssa’s story…

“Hi Ian!  This is a long message so be prepared ?

I’m so excited to be coming home next week after being gone for a month and getting back into the swing of things!  I wanted to tell you though that since many of my friends and family up here in Michigan haven’t seen me in a year or so, obviously they haven’t seen me since making some big life changes…..like getting healthy, getting strong, and losing 60 pounds!!  So I have felt like an evangelical preacher about EarthFit, the things I’ve learned from all of you, and the importance of being healthy.  You all have changed my life and I love sharing my story!

In particular though, I want to tell you about my best friend from high school, Heather. She has been very overweight since I’ve known her and has had a lot of health problems (Behcets disease, chronic migraines, asthma/allergies, and more).  She was also just in a really bad car accident on Fathers Day of this year.  She was told she suffered a concussion and two herniated discs in her back along with major bruising and trauma all over her chest, arms, and legs.  She also had “unexplained” swelling in her right leg that they never did really figure out.   She has been to all kinds of doctors and they have done all kinds of scans.  Her CT scan report even said she had possibly suffered from a stroke after the accident.  She’s been having memory loss, bad anxiety, depression, and just all around not in a good place since this happened.

On July 7th Her family had a surprise 40th birthday party for her while I was here, which unfortunately she spent half of in the bathroom throwing up and being sick.  (I think I told you that I used to be a nurse before I had kids, so with having my medical background, and knowing what she had been through with the accident, I was really watching her.)  She and her family kept saying it was the concussion that was making her get sick to her stomach like that since the accident.  This is a picture of her and I when she first got to the party

To be quite honest, I didn’t believe them at all.  She came into the room happy, surprised, talkative, social, and fun like I’ve always known her to be.  But then I saw her sit down at the table, eat a giant greasy cheeseburger and French fries with two large coke refills and put at least 6 prescription drugs in her mouth all within the first hour.  30 minutes after that she could barely stand, was flushed pale white, sweating, and in the bathroom throwing up.  I could plainly see that It wasn’t the concussion from weeks earlier that was making her sick…..it was the food and the drugs she just poisoned her body with that was making her sick.

While we were sitting at the table before she got up she was taking a lot of interest in knowing what I had been doing to lose the weight and to get feeling better.  She saw me last year when I was just miserable and couldn’t believe how much healthier I was.  I could tell she was open minded and was ready to hear how maybe she could change her life too…..but obviously I wasn’t going to start my preaching at her birthday party, while she’s eating junk food, and then certainly not once she got sick!

So anyway, I saw her a couple of days later when we went to her house and when we sat down at her table she just instantly started crying and said “I don’t want to live my life like this anymore.  You are proof to me that I don’t have to and that I can change things.  Tell me what I can do.  I need you to help me.”  I felt so sad and thankful at the same time.  So sad that she felt that way yet so thankful that I had been there, in that same place, but made the decision to walk into EarthFit, find you and your staff to help me and to guide me, so that maybe now I can help my friend so that she doesn’t have to feel that way anymore either.

We sat there that afternoon and I made her watch The Magic Pill movie with me and then I also told her about your superhuman workshop and had her watch the Wim Hof video.  I had her watch his techniques on the video and we practiced together as well.  This is a text I received from her yesterday

She finally had a brain MRI done as opposed to the previous CT scan.  The results showed no signs of concussion, no signs of stroke, no signs of trauma.  This is completely against what the other doctors have been telling her for a month now.  She does have mild white matter disease which is likely causing her memory loss and migraines though which really upset her.

I told her though, the great thing about white matter disease is that the reason you have it is because of your obesity so you know why you have it…..and the best part is it can be reversed on your own without any medical intervention with a healthy diet and exercise!  It’s curable!

They also finally figured out what’s going on with her leg….cellulitis!  Now, why doctors took a month to figure out that an overweight person has cellulitis in their leg I’m not really sure but, that’s why I don’t want to work in the medical field anymore ?. Anyway, again, I told her cellulitis is treatable, caused by being overweight, and completely preventable with diet and exercise.

SO….very long story short…..everything that is making her feel awful?  SHE has the power to fix and take control over.  Just like YOU taught ME!

I obviously don’t know much of anything and my path to health and wellness has been short and is just beginning, but if even just a small part of what I learn can help someone else, my journey will be a success.  I of course want to be better for myself, but making others around me better in the process is an equal reward ?

So this whole message is basically just to say thanks.  Thanks for caring enough to help others.  Thanks for sharing your knowledge.  Thanks for being you.  Thanks for making me a better me.  Thanks for making me able to help my friend.  You’ll never know how far your helping hand will reach!  I appreciate you and my entire EarthFit family.  I sure miss you all and can’t wait to see you later next week!!!

Alyssa J. ?”

Posted in Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,

Should You Do Box Jumps In Your Workout?

Published by on June 13, 2018 | Leave a response

Should you do box jumps in your workout?
Or better yet… should you do plyometrics in your workout?

Over the years this questions has come up at EarthFit Body-Mind Transformation Center a bunch of times.

People see trainers doing box jumps or see or hear about their friend doing box jumps at another gym and ask, “Can we do box jumps? They Look fun”

In this video you will find out if box jump and plyometrics are right for you.

“Hey! So should you do box jumps in your workouts? Yes or no? Well this video is specific to help you find out the answer to that… watch this video and at the end I’m going to have you do a test to determine if you should be doing not only box jumps but plyometrics and I’m going to get into the science of what a plyometrics is so if you are doing it, It will help you reduce your injury and increase your performance. The first thing we want to talk about is what the end goal is because every single program should just be base on working backwards from what the end goal is.

In our training facility one of our missions is to help working professionals get into optimal health and fitness in the safest, fastest and most effective way based on efficiency, burn fat and gain lean muscle. Now, safety is one of our number 1 things. When you get into plyometric movements, the risk goes up and the reward for what our goal is goes down a little bit. There’s better ways to optimise that type of training to get the reward. There’s progressions of plyometrics so I’ll demonstrate some of those shortly as well and you can test yourself out to see if you are ready to do even those basic movements.

First thing, you gotta ask yourself is “Do I move correctly?” when I do something as simple as a squat or a pushup. If you are not moving correctly then you are opening your chances for injury and if you are not absorbing the force it’s going to end up in your joints and that is where deterioration comes down. So the science, there’s 3 phases to a plyometrics – the eccentric downward, the amortisation phase which is the in between (the eccentric and concentric) and then the concentric. So that would be for box jump. You go down, and then up and then you jump on to the box and when we go down we are actually tapping into an elasticity into our muscles so it stretches the muscles and the amortisation phase is in between the concentric phase which is the upward motion and for you to tap in to the stretch shortening cycle of the muscle which is where the elastic energy is created on the downward motion and then on the upward motion, in between there’s a very small amount of time and it’s a fraction of a second and if you miss that fraction, it’s no longer a plyometric, right? because you are not tapping into that elastic energy in the muscles.

What is your goal? Are you an athlete? So athletes really benefit from this so the risk is worth the reward because they are going to get more explosiveness, they’re going to jump higher, they’re going to be able to push faster if they’re playing football and they’re a lineman, they’re going to be able to push harder so it’s very very powerful exercises in training for athletes. Now if you are not an athlete… Is it going to be extremely beneficial for you? Well, that’s the question that you need to ask yourself so now we are going to go out the floor (please watch the video) Can you tap into that stretch-shortening cycle, can you just jump and land correctly right? Because plyometrics are meant to be seen and not heard. What you will see is people jump and boom! All that force gets dissipated into the joints so if I don’t land nice and soft then all that force creates heat in the joints and your are now wearing down the joints rather than strengthening the muscles in the plyometric exercise so you’ll see if I go down and up and jump and land nice and soft, that is how you want to land, you want to absorb the force. If you can’t do that and you can’t do a few reps of that most likely you should not be doing box jumps because this is the very basic. I’m just jumping up and down.

If you want to test yourself right now and again with every exercise especially plyometrics you want to be fully warmed up so you do warm up before this is can you do:

  • 5 squats with 60% of your body weight within 5 seconds. Alright, so you are calculating out your bodyweight, you are putting 60% of that on you and then doing 5 squats really fast within 5 seconds. Again if you don’t have a proper form on the squat, don’t attempt that.
  • And then the other one is can you do 5 clap push ups in a row. Can you do 5 clap push up. If you can’t then you should not be attempting plyometrics. You need to regress back and start with basic strength and conditioning and so we’re talking about endurance training, strength training, hypertrophy or hypertrophy then strength and then power plyometrics and that takes phases of training to get somebody there.

So, I hope you found this helpful. If you have any comments or question, go ahead and leave them below.”

Posted in Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,
Never Skip Leg Day (New Research)

Never Skip Leg Day (New Research)

Published by on June 6, 2018 | Leave a response

Hey EF Fam,

If you are already an EFer, then you know every day at EarthFIT is leg day and there is a method to our madness based on science and research for exercise programming that give maximum results to both the body and the mind in the safest, fastest and most effective way possible.

Here is the latest research on how skipping leg day impacts your genes, mitochondria and neurological health.

It is a quick read and I think you will find it interesting.

CLICK HERE TO READ?

Never Skip Leg Day (New Research)

When you skip leg day, it is pretty serious.

So my recommendation is not to do it 🙂

Committed to your success,

Ian

 

Ian Hart is a Body-Mind Transformation expert, the creator of EarthFIT Training Systems, co-creator of BACK PAIN RELIEF4LIFE, and founder of BEAUFORTPERSONALTRAINING.COM and MYBACKPAINCOACH.COM. Ian and his team help people get into optimal shape in the safest, fastest and most effective way possible, using cutting edge science.

Posted in Tagged , , , , , , , ,
Beaufort Exercise: What's Your Excuse?

Beaufort Exercise: What’s Your Excuse?

Published by on May 15, 2018 | Leave a response

Beaufort Exercise: What’s Your Excuse?

Hey EF Fam,

Have you ever felt unmotivated, uninspired or have you ever gone through some type of crisis and you weren’t sure how your were going to get out or make it through?

Well… I filmed Dr. Sean Stephenson on Facebook live giving a presentation called “What’s Your Excuse”.

Dr. Sean is 39 and about 2 feet tall and his parents were told he wouldn’t live more than 24 hours when he was born.

Today he is therapist and helps thousands if not millions of people all around the world to be inspired and over come hardship.

Beaufort Exercise: What's Your Excuse?

 

In this video you will no longer have an excuse to not work out 🙂

Also… at the end of the video he gives his top 3 tips for overcoming a crisis.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO

Committed to your success,

Ian

Ian Hart is a Body-Mind Transformation expert, the creator of EarthFIT Training Systems, co-creator of BACK PAIN RELIEF4LIFE, and founder of BEAUFORTPERSONALTRAINING.COM and MYBACKPAINCOACH.COM. Ian and his team help people get into optimal shape in the safest, fastest and most effective way possible, using cutting edge science.

Posted in Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Alyssa EarthFIT Testimonial Beaufort Personal Training

Published by on May 15, 2018 | Leave a response

Alyssa EarthFIT Testimonial Beaufort Personal Training

“Before EarthFIT, my life included a lot of migraine headaches, I weighed 217 Lbs, I was out of breath doing just about anything. I actually went to a rheumatologist because I had so many aches that they thought I might have lupus or some sort of other autoimmune disease because everything hurt including my hands, my feet, my back, my joints and every aching pain in my body. I even had pains in my teeth and so I went through a whole series of blood test and everything else, and they ruled everything out except they said that my weight was causing most of my issues and they said that I needed to gain strength in my muscles and so I knew I had to do something.

I came to EarthFIT because I didn’t really know anything else to do. I was trying to do things on my own like walking and doing some exercises at home, but it just wasn’t doing enough and so I came here and decided to see what it would do.

The results here have been significant weight loss, but more so than the weight loss has been a severe amount of energy. I can do just about anything from the time I wake up to the time I go to Bed. I feel strong, I don’t feel like when I’m doing things I don’t get fatigued like I used to. I don’t feel pain when I’m trying to accomplish tasks like when I’m doing anything from mowing the grass to doing things with my kids even in swimming from the pool with them, carrying them up the stairs, even putting them in the grocery cart, doing the grocery shopping, simple tasks like that, even standing at the stove cooking dinner, everything is much easier. The confidence level has gone through the roof, when I look at the mirror I feel strong and I feel healthy, I feel good about myself and since I’ve been here I feel like it’s changed my life.

I was very skeptical about EarthFIT, I really didn’t understand how the program worked, I was very self conscious about it, because when I walked in the door I could see all these people doing these exercises I never pictured myself being able to do. It was very intimidating to me when I walked in the door. I never pictured myself being able to do deadlifts with kettlebells, trap bars and then pull-ups and all these things. I just couldn’t have pictured myself being able to do them and so once I got into the program and it was so personalised for each individual person and they start you at such a slow pace and work with you and your level and get you into the program and work you into each individual exercise and work with your strengths and weaknesses that it really builds your confidence with each exercise and before you know it you’re doing things that you never knew you could do.

I definitely would recommend it [EarthFIT]. I think any person of any age, of any fitness level can walk in the door and have a program developed specifically for them, even if you have a shoulder injury, back, knee injury, if you’re overweight, underweight, whatever it is I think they can work with you and get you strong and get you healthy.”

 

Posted in Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,
Ankle and Hip Mobility/ Flexibility

Ankle and Hip Mobility/ Flexibility

Published by on April 26, 2018 | Leave a response

Ankle and Hip Mobility/ Flexibility

MOBILITY VS. FLEXIBILITY

Mobility

  • Increase in muscle and joint temperature
  • Increase in range of motion
  • Active stretching
  • Should be performed before workouts

Flexibility

  • Lengthening of soft tissue
  • Passive Stretching
  • Should be performed after workouts

ANKLES

Dorsiflexion

 

  • Angle between shin and top of foot
  • Lack of dorsiflexion is one of the biggest problems that hinders lower body movements
  • Lack of dorsiflexion can be from tight calf muscles, inflexibility of the ankle joint, or tight Achilles

–How can I improve my squat to get lower?

  • Improving your dorsiflexion will allow you to get deeper into your squats without shifting your weight to your toes.

–Why can’t I keep my heels on the ground when I perform a lunge or squat?

  • Without adequate dorsiflexion in your ankles, once you reach a certain depth you will not be able to get further without your weight shifting from your heels to your toes.

–What can happen if I don’t improve my dorsiflexion mobility/flexibility?

  • Your performance will suffer, and you will have a greater risk of pain and/or injury.

HIPS

  • Complex parts of the body
  • Ball and socket joints
  • Perform Flexion/Extension, Abduction/Adduction and External/Internal Rotation

–Why can’t I get to 90 degrees on my squat?

  • If your hip flexors are tight, your hips will not be able to get close enough to your chest.

–Why do I have pain in my inner thigh when performing a low lateral shuffle?

  • Having tight hip abductors/adductors will make it difficult to achieve a low lateral shuffle position which can lead to pain in the  inner thigh area.

–What can happen if I don’t improve my mobility/flexibility in my hips?

  • Just like in the ankles, without proper mobility/flexibility your performance will suffer, and your risk of pain and/or injury will increase.

Ankle Mobility/Flexibility Drills

  1. Dorsiflexion Stretch
  2. Foam Roll (Soft Tissue)
  3. Active Calf/Achilles/Ankle Joint Stretch

Hip Mobility/Flexibility Drills

  1. Knee Grab
  2. Under the Hurdles
  3. Over the Hurdles
  4. Fire Hydrant Away From the Body
  5. Fire Hydrant Toward the Body
  6. Pigeon Pose
  7. Hip Flexor/Quad Stretch

 

-EarthFIT Coach Steve

Posted in Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Daily detox and nutrients (Chlorella)

Daily detox and nutrients (Chlorella)

Published by on April 24, 2018 | Leave a response

Daily detox and nutrients (Chlorella)

“Alright, so in this video I’m talking to you about something so powerful that I think everybody on earth should be taking it everyday and the reasons being is it’s just an unbelievable super food. Now, this has been studied (the product that I’m talking about right now which I’ll get to) has been studied for almost a century now. In the 1950s there’s a study on children who took this supplement and children who didn’t take this supplement and what they found was the children who took this supplement and I’m speaking about “Chlorella” and specifically in this test it was chlorella growth factor. The children who are on this supplement (it shouldn’t be supplement, actually food) It’s considered a food but we talk about is a supplement in this box. The children who are on the chlorella growth factor grew taller, their palette formed better, they looked healthier and stronger like physically and that is what I’m going to get to when we speak about the 7 proven and researched ways that chlorella can benefit you. Now, I’m such a believer in this because my wife took this all during the pregnancy and I’ll tell you the reasons why and my son has been taking this ever since he was born and one of the reasons being that study but also because of the other benefits that I’m going to speak about.

When we talk about protein really, what we’re talking about is amino acids. And amino acids are there is 21 amino acids that make up a full protein. Now this is a considered an algae. This algae has one of the best make ups of amino acid that you can get from non-meat and it provides about 16 grams of protein per ounce plus you are getting zinc, magnesium which we’ve spoken about, iron, vitamin B3, B2, A. Pretty much you are getting the necessary recommended doses from chlorella. So it is extremely powerful when it comes to just giving you the nutrients you need. But, the most important part which I’m going to get into and most people speak about it is the fact that it detoxes the body. And before we talk about detoxification, it something that everybody should be conscious of all the time now we are exposed to toxins. If you have been vaccinated, if you eat fish, if you’ve lived in a city, if you’ve drank from a city water, you want to be taking chlorella because this prevents the toxins from going deep into the tissue, it will absorb the toxins, carry it out as well as remineralize and give you the amino acids that you need. So now if you are detoxing, you want to make sure that you go slow with this because you don’t want to detox too fast because that will also cause a problem. Now that’s one of the things that it does now on top of that because of all the benefit that it has, it also supports your immune system. It’s a little bit of a blood thinner so it helps get nutrients and circulation going, it also promotes weight loss. This is something that’s been studied and proven as well and then like I mentioned before with the children, it made them look healthier and stronger. This also makes the person look and feel younger.

So the research is continued to reveal that this slows down the ageing process because you are getting the necessary nutrients that you might be missing and again this goes back to why gut function is so important and so as it improves your immune system as well, it helps you fight off cancer. It raises the immune system to fight off any infections or cancer cells that are now building in the body.

The last thing is it lowers your blood pressure, and cholesterol so I would highly recommend chlorella. I can go on and on about this supplement. The biggest thing that I want you to take away from this is that you are getting a lot of the nutrients, protein mixture, good amino acids plus vitamins and minerals that most people are missing nowadays and on top of that it’s detoxing the body of impurities that you want to get rid off, we want to continue to get rid off and as you’re exposed to them continue to take and that is why I recommend chlorella everyday.

Now the last thing that is very important is where you get your chlorella. This has been tested so Sun – Chlorella, I’m not affiliated with them, I don’t get anything from this, I do use Sun – Chlorella, my son uses it. There’s also a clean chlorella, another supplement that I’ve read from Mike Adams from natural news. He gets it from Taiwan because the chlorella that is created in China or made into a supplement in China, even though it’s organic it’s still taking impurities from the air. What they found out is even the organic chlorella is sometimes contaminated with this heavy metals from the air. So Taiwan had the cleaner air, it had organic chlorella, the impurities were the lowest. So Sun- Chlorella and the Taiwan clean chlorella are one of the best ways to go when it comes to buying this supplement.”

 

Ian Hart is a Body-Mind Transformation expert, the creator of EarthFIT Training Systems, co-creator of BACK PAIN RELIEF4LIFE, and founder of BEAUFORTPERSONALTRAINING.COM and MYBACKPAINCOACH.COM. Ian and his team help people get into optimal shape in the safest, fastest and most effective way possible, using cutting edge science.

Posted in Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Beaufort Health and Fitness: Neck and Shoulder Program

Beaufort Health and Fitness: Neck and Shoulder Program

Published by on April 23, 2018 | Leave a response

Beaufort Health and Fitness: Neck and Shoulder Program

Hey! What’s going on? Here’s a video that will help you reduce neck and shoulder pain. As you can see the neck and the shoulder are connected so a lot of times they are affecting one another and there’s a lot of muscles, tendons and movement going on in these areas and if you are not moving properly, it can exacerbate the issues. So, what we are going to do is we are actually going to hit every single joint across the neck and the shoulder to increase mobility proprioception and activate the muscles that you might be missing, stretch some of the tight muscles, strengthen some of the weak muscles, and then therefore eliminating pain just through movement and a lot of times that’s all it takes just activation of these movement patterns.

So we are going to get started right away, we are going to start in the neck and then move into the shoulders.

The first thing that we want to do is now stand with good posture. We are going to raise our shoulders up. Open our arms, get into our normal anatomical position, drop our shoulders and now we should have good posture.

And we are going to start with 4 repetitions of each movement.

  1. Now the first one is going to be neck side to side so we are moving within a good range of motion that feels comfortable and each time you can increase the range of motion slightly. And now we are going neck, chin to chest and head back and as we raise we are not pushing back, we are kind of pushing up and back to stretch the front of the neck.
  2. This time we are staying in this position, the only thing that is moving is our neck and we are going ear to shoulder back and forth. And as you do this, I want you to start focusing on your breathing , breathing through the nose in through the mouth.
  3. And now we are going to turn our head to the left, bring our chin down to the shoulder and all the way across and repeat… and Relax.
  4. Now we are going to do full neck circles all the way around in every aspect, think about your neck. Go nice, slow and controlled, still breathing and now change directions for the other side. Reconnect with your body, use this time to think about all the joints. A lot of times it’s just a lack of mental connection to activating these muscles.

So now that we have loosen up the neck, we are going to start to go into the shoulder that’s also connected with the neck.

Beaufort Health and Fitness: Neck and Shoulder Program

  1. So we are going to bring the shoulders up to the ears, forward and then backward all the way. (Big shoulder rolls and deep breaths in) And change directions…
  2. Now we are going to raise the arms straight up in the air and reach as high as you can, deep breath in, exhale and reach even higher, reach and extend the arms as high as you can lifting the ribcage up. And now from here, we are going to  drop one hand down and reach out far to the side and now we are stretching the lats that connect to the humerus there and now we are going to reach the other side and again deep breaths in… fully stretch the lats as far as you can. If you can, try to even feel the hip to get the whole chain. This is going to help loosen you up for the next one that we are going to do here.
  3. And now we are going to interlaced the fingers and we are going to go back and forth, stretching a little bit deeper to  the shoulder and the scapula here, we get range of motion in the shoulder that you might have not done. What you can do actually is gently push back with your head if you can get into that range of motion as you pull the elbow into the head. And just from this point right now you should start to feel all the joints loosening up.
  4. And now we are going to do single arm circle and we are reaching up and turning the hand as we rotate looking at the fingers. We are looking at the fingertips here… really reaching down, back… now change direction thinking about all the movements, thinking about your shoulder if you are doing it correctly you should start to feel a burn in your shoulder, that’s the tendons and the muscles that we are working and having been used in a while. Now we are going to switch arms, forward arms, again we are reaching up, forward, down and back… changing and rotating the hand as we do it. (Deep rotations). Change direction.
  5. Alright, the next thing we are going to do is take a deep breath in, you are going to open up your arms wide, you are going to spin and rotate the shoulders back come in and then back into a big arms circle, rotating the arms backward, bringing the palms up and in and back around.
  6. Now we are going to do both arms, big circles… change direction. You should really start to feeling this in the shoulders and the neck.
  7. And now we are going to gently slap the body and now opening up the arms, using the scapula think of your scapula as you do this. Alright, we are almost done.
  8. Here the last few we are going to do. Arms straight up in front of you, now you are going to raise them up and down using the scapula as you raise up and down.
  9. And now elbows to 90 degrees, open the arms up and down.
  10. The last one like you are pulling a band behind the back and then you’re going to squeeze the shoulders together as you pull back so let me show from the back we are pulling, squeezing the shoulder back and again pulling, squeezing the shoulders back one last time.

Alright, so there you have it. Now, we just activated every joint in full range of motion. You should feel loosened up, you should now have more increased awareness from the brain to the muscles around your neck and your shoulders. So, there you go eliminating pain the first step is just getting the body moving in the right scenario. So this should help you eliminate pain for your neck and your shoulders. It’s recommend that you do this daily for at least 3 weeks to see real results occur because it takes that long to make the neuro connection for these muscles if they have not been activated previously or for a long time.

So, this is Ian Hart. I hope you enjoyed the neck and shoulder program and I’ll see you on the other side.

Ian Hart is a Body-Mind Transformation expert, the creator of EarthFIT Training Systems, co-creator of BACK PAIN RELIEF4LIFE, and founder of BEAUFORTPERSONALTRAINING.COM and MYBACKPAINCOACH.COM. Ian and his team help people get into optimal shape in the safest, fastest and most effective way possible, using cutting edge science.

 

Posted in Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Prevent The HUMPBACK (Rounded Shoulders)

Prevent The HUMPBACK (Rounded Shoulders)

Published by on April 11, 2018 | Leave a response

Hey EF Fam,

I find that almost everyone can benefit from increasing their thoracic mobility.

As sedentary lifestyles, cell phone addiction and toxicity/neurotoxin issues increase, it creates a perfect storm for poor posture, rounded shoulders (Protraction) and humpbacks (hyperkyphosis) and tight thoracic spine (midback).

The implications for this are beyond what most people might think.

If your posture is suffering then your thoughts will suffer.  If your thought are low then your will feel low.  If your posture is poor then your mechanics will be poor.  If your mechanics are poor then you will end up in pain or injury at some point.

Do everything your power to maintain, improve posture and prevent the hunch back and a tight thoracic area.  Here is a simple program that you can do to increase thoracic (Mid back) mobility. This will also improve shoulder function as well as the way your thoughts are processed.

I created a video for you as a solution.

You can do this pretty much anywhere.
If you don’t have any of the equipment handy, you can do the exercises that do not require any equipment and still get amazing results.

Watch the video here

The body works as a connective chain and we should see:

  • Thoracic Mobility
  • Lumbar Stability
  • and Hip Mobility

But what we tend to see is:

  • Thoracic Stability
  • Lumbar Mobility
  • and Hip Stability

creating a formula which can lead to lower back pain.

We already have an internationally successful formula to help stabilize your lower back and mobilize the hips called Back Pain Relief4Life

But thoracic mobility is a missing link to even greater results.
So, for that reason, I created the THORACIC MOBILITY PROGRAM

 

Ian Hart is a Body-Mind Transformation expert, the creator of EarthFIT Training Systems, co-creator of BACK PAIN RELIEF4LIFE, and founder of BEAUFORTPERSONALTRAINING.COM and MYBACKPAINCOACH.COM. Ian and his team help people get into optimal shape in the safest, fastest and most effective way possible, using cutting edge science.

Posted in Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,