the Foot bone’s connected to the ankle bone…
I’m not afraid of bringing out the textbook mid-session!
At my core, I’m a teacher 👨🏻🏫
The best teachers always find teachable moments to help an idea really click 💡
Well before the sun came up today, class was in session with windmills providing the lesson!
My client, Michelle, made some great progress on hers this morning 👏🏼 and we talked about why windmills can be so challenging.
Windmills are a fantastic demonstration of our fascial lines at play.
”The toe bones connected to the foot bone.
The foot bones connected to the ankle bone…”
You know how it goes! Well, they really are connected by all kinds of connective tissues! Skin, ligaments, tendons, muscles, and fascia to name a few!
So a windmill that requires you to hold a kettlebell overhead while hinging into a rotation puts a few different fascial lines (take a look at the sketches!) on higher tensions. If we have any history of structural damage along the way like broken bones, torn ligaments, tendons, and/or muscles then you can have challenges performing movements that might be restricted by those morphological changes.
You can see how an old pec or rotator cuff tear could couple with tight hips to make total body movements a real beast!
If we allow this total body look at our anatomy to inform our movements and our mobility strategy, we can make huge strides building up strength and mobility in “weak points”.
Fascial Lines from Anatomy Trains by Thomas Myers