Did you know that clenching your feet turns off your glutes?
Try this….stand with your feet hip width apart (feet under your actual hip bones, not the way you see your hips in the mirror;) Be sure your toes are pointing out ever so slightly. No duck stance! Think about tires on a car, you wouldn’t drive with your tire pointing to the sides, so you shouldn’t be walking (or squatting) with your feet turned out either.
Now place your hands on your butt, clench your feet and descend into a squat. You won’t feel any engagement in your ass.
Now repeat this process with your toes spread nicely and your weight evenly distributed over your entire foot. DON’T GRIP THE FLOOR! Descend again into a squat and feel the tension in your glutes.
Lesson: clenching the floor with your feet turns off your glutes. It engages the anterior tibialis and extensor digitorus longum (the front of the calf) If you want to work your glutes, they can’t be turned off!
This right here is a major reason people have a pancake ass, even though they workout and do plenty of squats (cue Tracey Anderson and Gwyneth Paltrow)
The other reason is eating too many pancakes 😉
This can also cause shin splints. Gripping the ground with your feet while running turns off the flutes and therefore puts the work into the front of the calf, leading to shin pain.
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I'm finishing up the transition away from Locals onto Substack and wanted to be sure each of you have made the necessary adjustments to your accounts. For those of you who have remaining months left on your paid support here, I have comped you the balance over at Substack.
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One of the biggest challenges in writing my book is not being able to share any of it along the way. Given my narcissistic need for constant approval and attention, not having any feedback is killing me. Even negative attention is better than no attention at all (which explains a lot of my behavior in life), so not only am I missing the praise but I also miss my haters.
I need to break out of this cave. Thanks to Chuck Palahniuk who writes Spoiler Alert on Substack, but you would know as the author of Fight Club, I got the idea to share some excerpts and things that won’t make the final edit. This will give us both what we need. I get some attention and you get some thought provoking words to make you think (and possibly laugh, cry or both.)
Today’s snippet is from the first draft of a chapter titled, Remove Your Kindergarten Name Tag. I am currently on my third revision and we can all be thankful for this. As I walk my readers through the dark hallways of my earliest years, and attempt ...
Wanted to pass this short video along. We think of health in very limited ways. Faith, nature, love, communality, shared human experience…all prove to be just as necessary, if not more so, than going to the gym.
I’ve always viewed and taught health from this perspective. It is my belief the lack of these essential elements is as big an issue in our culture as poor diet and lack of movement.
The takeaway-we can do better🙏🏼
