Empowered Performance • March 23 2023 Coach Steph returns with a podcast episode interview with Alison Marie, PhD. The runner, trainer and pregnancy/postpartum exercise specialist digs into the details about how and why the organization of our internal organs can and will influence how well we move. Alison and Steph then dive into what the typical asymmetry looks like, how it might influence your movement, and most importantly, how it might affect your technique as a runner and a curler. Do you catch yourself doing the “sassy hip” and need some help balancing out those “twisted hips?” Alison provides her top two tips to adjust your training to help you feel balanced, aligned and move well. Images have been embedded in the media player to enhance your podcast experience. KEY POINTS: • We are asymmetrical inside, and that causes asymmetries in our posture and therefore influences the way we move • We naturally learn how to compensate for these asymmetries in order to accomplish movements • The goal isn’t to “be symmetrical” but to gain access to more movement options • Training makes moving easier so you can enjoy activity and improve performance • Two things you can do TODAY to help offset these asymmetries in the body: -- Play with the way you breathe in certain exercises (listen to learn how at the 60 minute mark) -- Isometric lateral lunge before reciprocal side to side exercise. Connect left low rib back as rotate over left side and feel how that connects that side. ALSO: Stephanie is hosting three virtual workshops this spring in partnership with the World Curling Federation’s World Curling Academy. Check out this link [https://worldcurling.org/2023/03/fitness-workshops/].
