Thankyou Lawrence.though I discovered this only a few weeks ago,makes an immense change in the way I open up and free my movement .I use the video to work along and hopefully will internaluse the connections to my running sometime.to your phrase : where the heart goes...
This and your other videos are making a big difference in my life, not to mention my movement and running. Even thinking about my nordic skiing movements (very anterior dominant ). Have you ever worked with nordic skiers?
So glad you finding use. No i have not worked with Nordic skiing. I like the hip torque and push. A little concerned with the anterior chain and adductor strength if you can’t push and torque from the hips. But no real experience
@@LawrencevanLingen thank you. I do think the overdeveloped habits and muscles of the anterior, like adductors and flexors , focused on climbing, limit my posterior (cue awesomizer). Is that what you were meaning as well? Hip torque, meaning the heel hip heart push or something else from your videos? As I alluded to, grateful you share your authenticity and values. A real human being on the internet is a rare treasure!
@@LawrencevanLingen I'm going to play with your flow rope method for Nordic skiing. I ski and coach juniors and there's a hip motion that's difficult to learn - and teach! Tire roller skiing is also intriguing as a way to learn new movement instead of the only other way I've seen it (strength/speed training)
Thanks again. I couldn't quite work out if you do the combo with one knee bent , when you roll to ' step' on the straight legs heel, can the bent knee rotate out ? Or must it still face directly upwards. ? Apologies if it was obvious and i didnt pick it up.
It’s very hard to keep the bent knee facing directly up for some. Keeping it gently as upright as possible is ideal as it will mobilize your piriformis and hip rotators. Don’t force it, just be aware and try keep it facing up
Listened to you today on a Running with Love podcast and have to say what you had to say was really interesting and relevant to me (60 yo overthinking runner with knee pain). Just wondering how often you suggest practising the penguin weekly and rep wise? Thanks
Thanks for the kind words. You want to do a small and effective daily mobility routine. So I personally do rounding and arching and wake up my hips every single day first thing in the morning. Penguins as taught above are perfect for waking up hips if you do them modified with the one knee bent or else so the synchronous hip routine. People that do this daily take years of their spine. It’s not uncommon for people 30 years or older to regain and inch in height. You will also find it easier and easier to walk better or develop good practices if your spine and hips are empowered. You get more talented and your therapist gets more talented.
Yes Desmond I will. Please watch the “Contralateral gait” video th-cam.com/video/xeunMqwDpxg/w-d-xo.html and practice the soft marching. That will make million dollar move easy and also penguins and modified penguins will all help you walk and run with the million dollar move.
Thanks again, really great video. With the timing of the turning (when we are running), at what point do you think its ideal to be between turns?. ie facing forward. Would it be when the ground foot is underneath the hips... or centre of mass?
You want to try get the foot to land as close to under the hip as possible. In order to do this don’t think about your feet, put the foot down in the right place with your “hip” (hip being the muscular area on the side of your pelvis at the top of your leg where it joins the body). If you think about your feet first you are moving “the wrong way round” or from “out to in” and you will find it very hard. Once your foot has hit the ground you are traveling forward on a connected leg, whilst doing this there is internal rotation of your femur (thigh) at the hip joint and their is slight rotation of the trunk on the hips towards the leg that is forward or away from the stance leg. This is what you are doing with the penguins, turning towards the lead leg, lay in your stance phase of running you should drive with your hips, in penguins that’s the step through your heel. You land, load then explode. You land, travel forward then “straighten” your leg or “step through your heel”. You are not quite stepping through your heel when you run as at this stage you should be more in your forefoot, so it’s better to think of stepping through your lower leg bones when you run. Think bones not muscles. Check out this video for how to practice foot mechanics. Foot mechanics are best practiced walking, when you run you DM t really want to think about your feet too much. th-cam.com/video/7G8Wx8x_GFA/w-d-xo.html
Thank you, please continue helping us learn to walk! :)
Walking is life
You introduced me to the penguin years ago but this is video brings it back all a new! Thank you! (even though you don't care. :) )
Ha ha. Welcome back to 🐧
Heels are grounded
Hips: passionately steering you to where your
Heart wants to go!
Thankyou Lawrence.though I discovered this only a few weeks ago,makes an immense change in the way I open up and free my movement .I use the video to work along and hopefully will internaluse the connections to my running sometime.to your phrase : where the heart goes...
Aaaw thank you:
Best wishes with your running
This and your other videos are making a big difference in my life, not to mention my movement and running. Even thinking about my nordic skiing movements (very anterior dominant ). Have you ever worked with nordic skiers?
So glad you finding use. No i have not worked with Nordic skiing. I like the hip torque and push. A little concerned with the anterior chain and adductor strength if you can’t push and torque from the hips. But no real experience
@@LawrencevanLingen thank you. I do think the overdeveloped habits and muscles of the anterior, like adductors and flexors , focused on climbing, limit my posterior (cue awesomizer). Is that what you were meaning as well? Hip torque, meaning the heel hip heart push or something else from your videos?
As I alluded to, grateful you share your authenticity and values. A real human being on the internet is a rare treasure!
Will do a video on tyre or resisted walking soon and then you will understand and sort out those pesky hips 💪🏻
Thank you for your kind words
@@LawrencevanLingen I'm going to play with your flow rope method for Nordic skiing. I ski and coach juniors and there's a hip motion that's difficult to learn - and teach! Tire roller skiing is also intriguing as a way to learn new movement instead of the only other way I've seen it (strength/speed training)
Thanks again. I couldn't quite work out if you do the combo with one knee bent , when you roll to ' step' on the straight legs heel, can the bent knee rotate out ? Or must it still face directly upwards. ? Apologies if it was obvious and i didnt pick it up.
It’s very hard to keep the bent knee facing directly up for some. Keeping it gently as upright as possible is ideal as it will mobilize your piriformis and hip rotators. Don’t force it, just be aware and try keep it facing up
@@LawrencevanLingen thank you. baie dankie
5:06 I am!
Listened to you today on a Running with Love podcast and have to say what you had to say was really interesting and relevant to me (60 yo overthinking runner with knee pain). Just wondering how often you suggest practising the penguin weekly and rep wise? Thanks
Thanks for the kind words. You want to do a small and effective daily mobility routine. So I personally do rounding and arching and wake up my hips every single day first thing in the morning. Penguins as taught above are perfect for waking up hips if you do them modified with the one knee bent or else so the synchronous hip routine. People that do this daily take years of their spine. It’s not uncommon for people 30 years or older to regain and inch in height. You will also find it easier and easier to walk better or develop good practices if your spine and hips are empowered. You get more talented and your therapist gets more talented.
You need to spend about 5 minutes a day on this
Are you going to do a repeat of million dollar man (if I remember correctly)?
Yes Desmond I will. Please watch the “Contralateral gait” video th-cam.com/video/xeunMqwDpxg/w-d-xo.html and practice the soft marching. That will make million dollar move easy and also penguins and modified penguins will all help you walk and run with the million dollar move.
Thanks again, really great video. With the timing of the turning (when we are running), at what point do you think its ideal to be between turns?. ie facing forward. Would it be when the ground foot is underneath the hips... or centre of mass?
You want to try get the foot to land as close to under the hip as possible. In order to do this don’t think about your feet, put the foot down in the right place with your “hip” (hip being the muscular area on the side of your pelvis at the top of your leg where it joins the body). If you think about your feet first you are moving “the wrong way round” or from “out to in” and you will find it very hard.
Once your foot has hit the ground you are traveling forward on a connected leg, whilst doing this there is internal rotation of your femur (thigh) at the hip joint and their is slight rotation of the trunk on the hips towards the leg that is forward or away from the stance leg. This is what you are doing with the penguins, turning towards the lead leg, lay in your stance phase of running you should drive with your hips, in penguins that’s the step through your heel. You land, load then explode. You land, travel forward then “straighten” your leg or “step through your heel”. You are not quite stepping through your heel when you run as at this stage you should be more in your forefoot, so it’s better to think of stepping through your lower leg bones when you run. Think bones not muscles.
Check out this video for how to practice foot mechanics. Foot mechanics are best practiced walking, when you run you DM t really want to think about your feet too much.
th-cam.com/video/7G8Wx8x_GFA/w-d-xo.html
@@LawrencevanLingen fantastic.. thankyou