Flexibility is a Force Multiplier

Written By Leanne de Groot
 

Try doing this with limited range of motion. People with good flexibility can use their strength through wider ranges of motion, so they can do things other people just can’t.

If you want to up your performance at crossfit, running, climbing, football, golf, rowing, gardening etc then you will need to improve your flexibility where your body needs it in these activities. I strongly suggest you spend ten minutes as many days of the week that you can, on developing freedom in your movements. Do it to enable you to excel in the activities that are meaningful to you!

Here are a few exercise videos demonstrating simple techniques to improve flexibility in your legs and hips. Concentration on these areas will allow you to apply your strength through wider ranges of motion ie: deeper more stable squats, lunges and deadlifts!

 
 
 
 
Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

https://www.bodyfuel.org
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