Description
In this practical overview of the hip hinge pattern, Gray Cook discusses assessment and screening for pain/dysfunctions and dismantles misconceptions that often affect corrective exercise selection. Hip hinge issues are not always posterior chain problems, nor do they always point towards a mobility strategy (despite usually involving tension).
Gray progresses through 13 exercises structured by posture and the ABCs (Awareness, Breathing and Control), including half-kneeling and tall-kneeling transitions, RNT deadlifts, chops and lifts, and RNT walking and running. Specific attention is given to using exercise to provide the client with awareness of their current movement issue and use that information to build competency in the pattern.
Before ballistic work with kettlebells, running or deadlifts, Gray shows you how to get the pattern organized first so that your training can build on a proper hip hinge.
Course Length: 1 hour, 4 minutes
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This course is part of a series that explores the FMS approach to identifying and correcting movement dysfunctions. Other patterns explored include Balance, Upper Body, Rotation, and Squat. Each details the differences between the FMS assessments and screens - SFMA, FMS, and Symmio, and follows with exercises based on a hierarchy of developmental postures: Supported, Suspended, Stacked, and Standing. The exercises are also structured by the ABCs principle: Awareness, Breathing, and Control, and use Reactive Neuromuscular Training (RNT) to engage motor learning, or as Gray says, “motor remembering”
The addition of Symmio includes an overview of the movement self-screen as well as a discussion of the impact of non-musculoskeletal lifestyle factors on movement health and wellness.
Functional exercise should never cause dysfunction and this FMS Corrective Strategies series, along with the insight into the system you integrate into your work, whether it be SFMA, FMS, Symmio, or all of our options, provides you with the basics of a test-correct-retest standard operating procedure. Go beyond the body parts and see the importance of patterns for identifying and correcting movement health issues at the edge of ability in a rich sensory environment.
