Welcome to Day 1.
In today’s session, you’ll be practicing two movements with the intent of learning better awareness which will help to improve your strength, flexibility, and control.
Rather than focusing on counting repetitions, you will instead focus on timed sets. The purpose of this is to allow you to be more mindful of each individual repetition, making sure to perform it as beautifully as possible. Practice each movement with a focus on quality.
Here’s what we’ll focus on for today’s warm-up:
Use the warm-up as a time to check in with your body and see how it feels. What feels particularly tight today? What’s feeling good and strong? Take a mental note of that so you can pay attention to how that’s feeling throughout today’s session.
For the practice portion of today’s session, we’ll focus on two blocks of movement:
For each block, do 3 sets of 30 seconds, with 30 seconds of rest between sets.
Try out the first progression, and if you feel comfortable and controlled with that progression, then work on the next level. Just focus on doing one perfect rep. Then another. And another. After a few rounds of that, see what happens if you speed the movement up a bit by playing with different tempos.
After you’ve finished the practice portion of today’s session, it’s time to “pressurize” the movements. This is where we take things up a notch. We’ll continue with the Squat, the Bear, and the Shoulder Bridge.
Our most successful clients find that they get better results by actually writing down a few notes after each section. We suggest taking 2-3 minutes to write down your thoughts on this session. Here are a couple of points to reflect upon: