Movement Gym

02/18/2026

Session Sneak Peek!🔥 Neck & Pushup

In this session sneak peek we are tying in some neck specific work to re organize his internal perception of where his head is during the pushup.

Assessment has revealed
❌ Segmental buckling in cervical spine
❌ Poor Scapular control and Positioning

This results in poor control of the upper back/neck and loss of scapular positioning in the pushup which was feeding the neck issue.

This excessive interference was likely the culprit of the downstream neurological tension he was developing. And being that I left him in good shape from our previous session. My thoughts were, what is he doing on a daily basis that could be contributing?

This particular client is very strong in the upper body does lots of push-ups, and if he’s doing a lot of push-ups without creating good abduction through the scapula, his upper back and neck kinda get caught in a trough, ESPECIALLY ON THE DOWN PHASE! So we started with this neck drill that has been augmented from a previous neck input to enhance good cervical alignment and nuchal ligament tension. Next we tied it specifically to his push-up. The problem being when people do push-ups, the problem isn’t pushing up, It’s actually the down phase (because the down phase doesn’t exist in developmental sequencing) the brain only cares about getting up, not going up and down repeatedly. The pushup from an exercise standpoint is extremely unnatural. So we are rewiring how he organizes his shoulder blades and positioning his upper back and neck in a place where his push push-up can happen without an insult to the spine.

If training like this interests you or you find you are in need of greater details so your body can work smarter DM me.

01/30/2025

Hey Everyone! We are adding some MAJOR fun to the fitness game! This is an amazing opportunity for kids to develop some discipline, fitness, and have some spectacular fun. We have limited spots.

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12/17/2024

Hey Tina trainer gal, you’re not doing what you think you’re doing.

All you are doing on that bosu ball/airsoft pad is teaching your body how to not control forces in different positions.

1. Thats not how the 3 main parts of your balance work.
- Visual system
- Vestibular system
- Peripheral system and biology.

2. Thats not how your biology learns to manage forces better.

You lose your balance when the forces you are trying to manage are greater than what you can control in the position you are in.

Putting people on stupid pieces of exercise equipment and encouraging them to not fall down is not the same as improving their balance.

If you are a coach that is doing this. You are stealing your clients money, and wasting your clients time.

Improving a person’s spinal mobility will do a 1000x more for their balance than any bosu ball could ever hope to on the greatest of fit influencer instagram accounts.

Worse yet, if you’re having someone do jumping onto the bosu you’re more likely to injure your client than anything.

If you want to improve a person’s balance, train their ankles and improve their tissue quality and ROM. Heck chase them with a chainsaw. Anything other than a do dumb exercises on a bosu ball.

Rant over.

12/13/2024

Whining and complaining about it doesn’t count.

Neither does doing a bunch of random internet exercises.

You can’t resolve something that requires an entire process with one step pf the process.

You either commit to resolution or not.

Dm me of you’re ready to put your BS in the grave.

12/10/2024

Joint mobility training is a highly specific and detailed way of mastering and controlling your body.

Mobility training isn’t just about getting more “bendy”. It’s about learning how to control every tissue and joint and range of motion you need to access for all the things you love to do, have to do, and need to do.

Mobility training is the most functional training you can do for your body because it’s the one thing that you need to do everything with your body.

If you’re not engaged in some form or aspect of joint mobility training on a weekly basis, at least a couple to a few times a week you need to start.

Joint Mobility training is one of those things in life that you say “I wish I would’ve started sooner”and “Why didn’t anybody tell me about this?”

Don’t wait until surgery becomes your only option, because you will spend a lot of time slowly losing wonderful things in your life before the surgeon will touch you.

DM me 📥 to get started.