LaRose Muscular Therapy

🔥You don’t need tons of equipment to work your muscles and benefit your movement health!

💪🏻A pilates ball creates instability which encourages muscle and nerve interaction to improve coordination, stability and body awareness!

😃Here are three simple movements to utilize your pilates ball!

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🚨Balance CAN be trained later in life!

Here’s why:

Balance requires the interactions between your central nervous system and your muscles

Luckily, your nervous system constantly remains able to learn and adapt!

Therefore, training your nerves will in the end, increase your balance

💪🏻Here are 4 simple single leg balance progression to improve your nerve to muscle interaction!
1. Single Leg Balance
2. Single Leg Balance on Stability Pad
3. Single Leg Balance with Eyes Closed
4. Single Leg Balance with Eyes Closed, on Stability Pad

🔥Add some single leg balance work to your next workout!

🔥Let’s dive a little deeper into your squat form!

Do you ever experience knee pain when you’re doing squats?

💪🏻One thing to look for in your movement patterns is knee valgus or knee varus

This happens when your knee caves either inward or stretches outward in your squat and can put a lot of pressure on the knee joint!

💙Put a focus on driving your knees over your toes, and you may want to try moving your feet slightly further apart and pointing your toes outward!

💪🏻The Psoas Muscle does more than you think!

🔥This deep hip flexor muscle lifts your leg and stabilizes your pelvis. It plays a super important role in every day movements like walking and climbing stairs.

💙Small muscles can make a BIG difference in how you move!

🦶Have you ever heard of the Posterior Tibialis?

This often overlooked muscle runs down your calf into the inside of your foot

✅It helps:
- support your foot’s arch
- stabilize your ankle
- control your foot during walking

💪🏻Small muscles can have a big impact on how you move!

🔥Add this to your next workout for stronger ankles

🚨MYTH: no pain, no gain

✅FACT: pain isn’t what makes exercise effective

The goal is to challenge your body while maintaining good movement and control, not to push through pain just to prove you can!

💪🏻Progress doesn’t have to hurt, it just has to challenge you!

👋🏻 Meet your Rhomboids

🔥The Rhomboid Major and Minor are located between your spine and shoulder blades and are critical in controlled your scapula (or shoulder blades)

They help with:
- Pulling your shoulder blades toward your spine (retraction)
- Downward rotation of the shoulder blades
- Stabilizing the shoulder blade as a whole

💪🏻Your shoulder blade needs to move well for your shoulder to move well!

💙Try a controlled banded row in your next workout!

🔥Box squats aren’t just for beginners!

💪🏻They can be a great way to improve squat control, build confidence, develop good hip mechanics and strengthen your overall movement!

💙Build your movement to have stronger mechanics that carry over into everyday life!

😃Move Better. Feel Stronger.

👣 You might not know its name, but you use it every time you walk!

🔥Meet the Tibialis Anterior - the muscle running along the front of your shin

It helps:
- pull your toes up towards your shin
- controlling your foot as you walk
- stairs and stepping
- overall ankle control and balance

💪🏻Toe Raises
- keep your knees straight and focus on only using your lower leg to provide the movement
- keep your core engaged and back pushed against the wall

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🔥Your ankle mobility is much more important in your squat mechanics than you might think!

Limited ankle dorsiflexion can make it harder to keep balance, maintain good squat mechanics and reach depth!

💪🏻try this simple ankle dorsiflexion drill to work on your mobility before your next squat!

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