Why We Need the Right Glute
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2019
- The right glute is needed for right leg abduction in the frontal plane. It is what really "pushes" us to the left.
In the left AIC pattern, the right glute weakens and thus we lose the ability to fully push our center of mass to the left. If you don't use it, you lose it.
The PRI technique mentioned in this video is on this page.
pritrainer.com/pri-left-aic-r...
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Hey there, my name is Neal Hallinan.
The purpose of this channel is to help people understand and resolve chronic muscular and joint pain, primarily through the discipline of Postural Restoration.
As someone who lived with chronic pain for many years of my life, I know how debilitating and isolating it can be. But I also know it can be resolved.
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For an example of typical exercises for a beginner program, you can look here:
pritrainer.com/pri-left-aic-r...
Please note, this is quite generic and not sufficient for everybody!
For further information about Postural Restoration defined patterns, check out these videos and blog posts.
pritrainer.com/left-aic-pattern/
• What is the Left AIC p...
• Introduction to the Ri...
pritrainer.com/right-bc-pattern/
• RTMCC Pattern Basics
pritrainer.com/right-tmcc-pat...
Thank you youre a legend. Consiously pronating my right foot has been helping greatly
Thanks! Happy to hear it's helped. Keep working on your left hip musculature and right glute.
this is a game changer☺💕thank you sir
by this I mean your entire content
Thanks, JoJo!
Yes. I have this issue. Very hard to activate right glutes, because it my right adductor Magnus is super tight and biceps femoris. Rectus femoris is weak. It is so hard to fix.
Thanks Neal. I'm understanding more for some neuroplastic changes. Around 5:20 where you mention "Ideally you'll feel that right glute but your gonna also have to sense the right arch. You'll have to set frontal plain on left, push bottom hip into the floor and sensing the right arch". Talks further about the recognizing these reference centers?
Can you provide the videos your referring to. Not sure what you mean by "pushing bottom hip into floor". I searched right glute, left arch on your website and not sure what one specifically explains that quoted part from your video?
I need to delve more into this with the videos you mention. Thanks much!
Do you have a site in which we can view the integrated activity to engage all the necessary musculature in sequence that you mentioned in this video.
Hey Neal! Is executing a circular hip rotation with the pelvis locking and unlocking while directing the rotation to the left an indicator of the left AIC pattern?
When I do this exercise, engaging left abs I feel activated left glute and left quadricep too. Is it normal?
One time i had an mri for right shoulder issues i was on my back with legs elevated on pillows and i woke up 30 minutes into mri and my right glute was numb. What could this mean? I also cant sleep on my back this being one of the reasons. I can only sleep on my sides and even then im still tossing and turning.
How can I simulate or recreate this while standing ?
I live and work in Manhattan. There's no way during my hour lunch break imlaying on the concrete and doing this.
If I stand on a step with my left leg bent at a 90 angle, give it some slight adduction and internal rotation, what do I do my with back leg ? Fully extend it with some slight extern rotation ?
If that's correct what can I do with my arms ? Right arm over my head like a rainbow
I have popping in my right hip a lot and it almost feels like the right hip has come out of the joint. Are there any techniques to work on this?
sounds like hip instability. hamstrings need to be strengthened to pull the hip joint snuggly into the socket
Hi Neal, I've watched almost all of your videos and they speak to me on a deep level. After suffering from pain for over ten years (i'm only 28!), I've been on a six month journey on discovery to try and finally put an end to this chronic pain. I've done my own research but I always come back to my videos, and you perfectly explain the problems I have down to the exact muscles I've identified as overactive/underactive and the reasons why.
I have two questions though:
1) My right glute max seems really strong, while left glute max seems really weak. This is the one thing about my body that doesn't seem to align with what you teach.
2) I had my body professional examined and the conclusion was my left leg is significantly longer than my right leg. My theory is that my imbalances appear to make my left leg longer, and perhaps the examiner was mistaken. Is this possible? Do these issues lead to apparent leg length discrepancies?
Keep up the amazing work, you're changing a lot of people's lives.
Glutes are really strong tri-planar muscles, so they can be weak in one plane of movement, and strong in the other two, or weak in two planes of motion and strong in one. In general, the right glute is weak overall, and definitely in abduction and external rotation. The left is strong in external rotation but weak in extension (sagittal plane). It can be a mixed bag, but that's the general pattern.
Your left leg could appear longer due to left hip laxity, which is very common in the left AIC pattern.
@@NealHallinan Yep you nailed it, thanks
Have you regained any left hip internal rotation?
For 2 years I have been with pain in all parts of the body, and the sensation of not breathing correctly, I have been doing these exercises for 1 month and this week I have felt how the left hip goes back while the right one moves forward when I do the exercises accompanied by that sounds a click as if it really fit and now I feel my left heel so my weight is more distributed, I don't feel tension in my left shoulder blade anymore and 80% of the pain is gone it's fascinating.
@@theflasher4019 hi can you help me with what can I do ? I also feel.my left leg is longer & my majority of weight goes in left leg when I walk or sit & when I walk or sit for long time my left back hip feels like start burning I visited physiotherapist & did many exercise & then I visited orthopaedic doctor he directly told me that you should visit psychological doctor all this can't be possible ..
When the left side of the pelvis is more forward than the right, does that cause uneven leg length/walking gait problems?
yes, it can.
Are these same patterns commom for left dominant humans?
Hi Neal. How can I join your online sessions??
Hi Neal, I am Sabrina and I am a Patho pec. Doing this exercise, my right foot extrarotate and my pronation is more difficult. I had the opposite result than the one who I was searching for. Why this happened? What did I do wrong? Thank you so much for your wisdom and your dedication to others.
Right foot supination is common
What might be the issue if you feel that you have a problem with engaging the LEFT glute max? For example when i do deadlifts i have a hard time contracting my left glute in lockout and feel my left adductor tighten up. Same when doing hip thrusts, KB swings. Like my left leg wants to externally rotate.
Because it probably DOES want to externally rotate. This is the common compensatory movement of the left leg due to a pelvis in the left AIC pattern. The left leg has to externally rotate to stay straight.
On the other hand, if your pelvis is neutral, it could be that you haven't trained your right glute enough for what I talk about in the video. Perhaps your center of mass is still shifted to the right a bit.
Try "sensing" your left heel during some of the exercises and see if that makes a difference.
Very interesting ! So that’s why I feel off balance and lazy in my right side. While my whole left side is stiff. Also all my symptoms are located on my right side including tinnitus, light headedness and eye strain. Are all these symptoms related to left AIC pattern ?
Hey. How are you now?
Hey neal as months go by i get better with ur exercises im starting to feel L adduc and R glute fire together, never independently. Am i doing it right or should i be feeling independatly?
Edit: adductor pullback and R glute exercises.
How are you doing now?
Neal I just started with a PRI provider and got the AIC pattern test positive, I can feel my right glutes easily, but not my left glutes firing as much, I can’t do a full contraction of left glutes when flexing hip in 90 compared to right side, I have also overactive left adductors. Is this normal in a AIC pattern? I’ll bring this up to her in the next app, but what’s your thoughts? Thanks
Yes, it's normal. It takes time. You'll have to be patient.
Hello Neal, I have been doing these exercises for 1 and a week, and the truth is that I feel how my hips, ribs, etc. fit together, I feel a lot of nerves activate and then relax as if everything was being rearranged, this week I saw exceptional progress, I feel my left heel and my left shoulder blade does not feel pressed or nad, I still feel slightly the right ribs connected to the right neck and pressed even so I assume that I still need more, the doubt is that this week I have progressed so much in what I do the techniques I tremble, my muscles start to shake, is that correct?
Shaking does occur, yes. It's always best to have a qualified therapist help you.
So, could standing on the right leg and getting in a relaxed position, (like left internal oblique is being stretched, and ur kinda hiking the right hip). Then from being in that position, pushing off with your right gluteuses, (making an abduction movement but with feet still on ground). Work?? Because when u push off, u feel your gluteus work and they get sore, ur left hip hikes, and right external oblique gets stretched.
I think you are describing what naturally happens during gait. The right frontal plane is "closed" (right hip and right shoulder closer together) while the left frontal plane is "open" when in right stance. Then you push to the left where everything switches. That's what is supposed to happen, but in the left AIC right BC pattern that no longer happens. You stop pushing effectively to the left, the right side stays closed, and the left side stays open.
Neal Hallinan so then that exercise I explained would then work then??? Because I used to do it and it helped with my knee pain a lot and my gluteus, mainly the medius would be sore
Hi ! Neal, please give me more understanding
there is some standing activity with, as you mentioned righ adduction (frontal plane, mostly feeling in right glute med)
BUT..
there is some PRI standing activity (might be in bending over position) on the righ leg. So you are staying on the righ leg. Knee is flexed. Then you are pulling left leg up so its become higher than righ one and doing int.rot of the femure with feeling of L.adducotr and L.glute med...BUT at the same tame you feel burning in right glute max. And you have to feel your arch.
What is the different ? Which part of the gate you are exercising by doing last exercices ?
It's almost always related to left mid-stance and right push-off. The right leg has to push with the right glute max and it needs to abduct as it swings through the air.
Keeping left thoracic abduction (left abs) during virtually every activity is what makes almost all PRI techniques a "left mid-stance" "right push-off" activity. It's rare that we use right abs.
I picture it like this: the right glute throws us to the left, the left abs catch us, and the left heel directs us into midstance. Right glutes and left abs have to work together. That's a huge concept.
@@NealHallinan it is a huge concept. Now i understand better. But what about integration exercise that calls "standing right Lunge with right trunk rotation".You have your right leg in front,both feet on the ground, left behind, under left knee for some reason there is a pillows and you rotate your torso to the right. It is sitll about push off your right leg with glute max?
@@olesgonskij no, I believe that would be "holding on" to left stance as long as possible. People prematurely fall back to the right. So this technique teaches you to stay in left stance longer. You can still feel your right glute in this position (via the right arch) but you are in the right AIC pattern with your pelvis oriented left.
@@NealHallinan Neil it does sound like a huge concept. When you describe the process of events to activate the Right GluteMax which then simultaneously activates the left Abs to catch-us; from this 2 step process does it then follow that you Exhale the left ribcage Down and In once you can neurologically feel you have a 'handle' on those ribs being firmly locked down (as best as you can anyway since they might be flared).
Then once you have exhaled this should then enable you to perform AFIR on the left followed by FAIR which then fully positions you on the left. THEN once you have AFIR + FAIR at this point you reach forward with the left arm to make the left ribcage go Back thus completing the Down+in+Back action of the left ribcage to be fully internally rotated.
Is the above process of events correct?
If we are limited in left hip internal rotation, will training the right glute to abduct and push off to the left do any good if we can’t get into left hip internal rotation?
With a PRI technique, yes, because all PRI techniques will put you into left hip IR when using your right glute. If you IR is limited, you may not be neutral or your left posterior hip capsule or right inferior glute max may need to be stretched. There are videos about both these scenarios on this channel.
@@NealHallinan you are the man!
6:27 Beautiful marriage of PRI and Buddhist or Speculative Idealist metaphysics. But I'm afraid this is why your channel will never be mainstream. Your conceptual framework is too foreign and spooky-psychedelic for the normies, for mainline Protestantism. Please repent and then you'll finally go mega viral like you rightly deserve, your content is so important for so many, and should be seen by even more.