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  • Try this exercise to improve your BALANCE

    Try this exercise to improve your BALANCE

    The video I’m sharing with you today includes a couple of variations of the Lateral Lunge exercise, which you likely know.

    These variations will both improve your balance with the second variation a simple technique that you can use with any exercise to improve balance, proprioception and kinesthetic awareness.

    Those last 2 words may be foreign so here’s what they mean:

    Proprioception: how your brain knows the position your body is in

    Kinesthetic Awareness: how your brain knows where your body is in space

    Please let me know what you think after you give it a whirl.

  • Eggs for High T | Piriformis Release | Glutes [ASK ERIC]

    Eggs for High T | Piriformis Release | Glutes [ASK ERIC]

    In today’s QnA video, I answer the following questions:

    I hate eggs but am trying your recommended T booster diet – is there a substitute?

    – Garry Mcdonell, Canada  [mm:ss]

    I do have a piriformis muscle issue. I was told the exercises you do for that depends on whether the muscle is shortened or lengthened.

    Do you have any help?

    – Joanne Attwood, Canada  [mm:ss]

    I went 3 weeks not missing a day but week 4 fell on the holidays and so I’ve slacked off a bit.

    But up to this point I have seen tremendous improvement in my hips.

    Since I’ve missed a week do you recommend starting from week 1 again or just pick up where I left off?

    – Aaron Cropper, US [mm:ss]

    What exercises have you found to best strengthen and add flexibility to the gluteal muscles?

    I am a physician and I appreciate your explanation based on muscle physiology.

    – Ronald Wong, US [mm:ss]

    When I sit, I feel real tight in the hip flexor / aDductor area.

    I can stand to take the pressure off, but I was curious if you have input on how to stretch/strengthen this specific area as it gets tight almost immediately when I sit.

    If there is an area of your HFS program I should focus on to help with this, please point me in the right direction.

    – Fletcher Wilson [mm:ss]

    If you’ve got a question about training for MMA or martial arts, nutrition, injuries or anything else that you’d like me to answer in a future QnA video, submit it here.