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MOVEMENT LOGIC

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FOOT AND ANKLE TUTORIAL

Let’s be honest, our feet and ankles are a pretty complicated bunch of joints that we tend to pay little attention to – until they hurt! In truth, we can recover from injury, or prevent future injury from taking place, with regular care and feeding of our feet and ankles. What does that look like? Functional and progressive movements that both challenge us to maintain healthy ankle and toe mobility and strength, and help us to organize our whole body movements from the ground up.

In this tutorial you will:
  • Receive over 3 hours of viewing and practice materials
  • Learn a movement-based approach to working with clients who have an array of foot and ankle concerns, or who simply want to get stronger and more flexible through the whole foot complex
  • Acquire a progression of exercises that explore toe flexibility and strength, supination and pronation, arch support and development, balance and proprioception, and how all these lead to the most basic movement of them all: walking. These exercises can also easily be introduced into any movement class.
  • Review musculoskeletal anatomy to better understand how the foot and ankle integrates with the lower leg, hips, and even up to the neck
  • Study up-to-date, biopsychosocial pain science that breaks down old beliefs around foot positions and movements – and how we incorrectly emphasize position over function
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What to Expect in our Foot and Ankle Tutorial
  • Progressive exercise techniques for the toes, ankles, legs and hips
  • Extensive anatomy, biomechanics and kinesiology, and movement myths busted
  • Watch immediately upon purchase!
  • Fully subtitled
  • Tutorials are available forever
  • Over 3 hours total viewing time
  • 3 hours Yoga Alliance CEUs

TUTORIAL AVAILABLE NOW

Investment: $129.99

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WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING

“My right foot has always supinated transitioning from chaturanga to down dog, so after doing the vid I tried it a couple of times with the ball between my ankles and it’s helped loads… now I pretend the ball is there and it’s so much better. You lot come up with some genius tricks and hacks!”

-Nicki, yoga teacher

Tutorial Outline

Part 1: Body Science (20:30)
  • Intro (3:30)
  • Anatomy and Kinesiology of the Toes (4:40)
  • Anatomy and Kinesiology of the Rest of the Foot and Ankle (2:45)
  • The Difference between Pronation & Supination versus Eversion & Inversion(1:25)
  • Anatomy and Kinesiology of the Arches of the Foot (2:00)
  • Muscles of the Foot and Ankle (1:35)
  • Common Foot Pathologies (5:30)
Part 2: Toes (25:30)
  • Intro (00:45)
  • What’s All the TOEmotion about? (2:00)
  • Abduction Junction, What’s My Big Toe FUNction? (2:45)
  • Getcher Toes on the Bandwagon, Too! (2:00)
  • Try to Twist your Toes Off (3:40)
  • Toe-Sitting (4:00)
  • Don’t Drop the Ball on This One (2:20)
  • Heel Hovers (5:45)
  • Myth-Busting Bunions (3:00)
Part 3a: Pronation & Supination part 1 (23:29)
  • Intro, Ankle Sprains (4:00)
  • Ankle CARs (4:45)
  • Perimeter your Feet (3:45)
  • The Loaded Carry (3:30)
  • Not So Easy Block Squeezes (3:15)
  • Big Toe Tree Roots (2:15)
  • Standing Clams (2:15)
Part 3b: Pronation & Supination part 2 (27:49)
  • Tree Huggers (2:17)
  • Hinging Leans (3:00)
  • Deadlifts (3:30)
  • Single Leg Deadlift (4:10)
  • Front/Back Side/Side Diagonals Toe Reach (3:40)
  • Adding Speed (3:40)
  • Dosing Impact, Little by Little (0:30)
  • Heel Drumming, Heavy Heels (1:00)
  • Heel Drumming, Light Heels (1:30)
  • Leaving the Ground (3:30)
  • Jumping Rope (1:15)
  • Step Step Land (3:00)
Part 4: Plantar Fascia (14:17)
  • Intro (1:45)
  • Toe Spreader, Footshake (2:45)
  • Ankle Mobile, Femur Still (4:30)
  • Toe Hang (2:15)
  • Inchworm (4:00)
Part 5: Arches, Ankles & Squatting (34:16)
  • Intro (2:30)
  • Doming the Arch (3:30)
  • Piano-Playing Toes (2:00)
  • Pole-Walking (5:30)
  • Evade and Resist (4:00)
  • Heel Hover (2:30)
  • Banded Toe and Ankle Dance (5:30)
  • Heel, Ball, Squat (1:40)
  • Dorsiflexion is a Life Skill (4:00)
  • Straighten your Knees All the Way (3:15P
Part 6: Balance and Proprioception (15:00)
  • Intro (2:00)
  • Ankle Leaning (5:00)
  • Plantar Flexion and Dorsiflexion Proprioception (4:00)
  • Heel Raises While You Sleep (3:00)
Part 7: Asana Considerations (18:25)
  • Intro - The Feet in Standing Poses (4:00)
  • Changing the Incline of the Floor to Improve Ankle Mobility (1:00)
  • Working on Inversion (2:00)
  • Working on Plantar Flexion (1:15)
  • Working on Eversion (0:45)
  • Working on Dorsiflexion (1:45)
  • Same But Different: Decreasing Range of Motion (2:30
  • Hug the Block, Break the Belt (5:15)
Part 8: Gait (14:00)
  • Intro (2:15)
  • Gait Tests (3:30)
  • Gait Tips (4:00)
  • Myth-Busting: Your Neck and Your Feet (3:00)
  • Closing (00:40)

FAQs

1. How do I access my purchased tutorials?
  • Go to www.movementlogictutorials.com
  • Click on "My Account" in the upper right corner
  • Log in to your account using your email and password you created at purchase. If you have forgotten your password, you can reset it at this step.
  • Once you're logged in, click on "My Courses" in the upper right corner to view your purchased tutorials.

Any issues with these steps, click on the SUPPORT button and we will help you!

2. I'm not a teacher. Is this tutorial for students, too?

Absolutely. This tutorial is for anyone. It is meant for teachers and students alike.

3. Do I need a strong background in anatomy?

Not at all. The tutorial will cover kinesiology and muscle anatomy, but it is presented in a way that is easily accessible to anyone.

4. Are the exercises presented only for private students or would they work in a group class setting?

Both. The topics and exercises are appropriate in groups and one-on-one sessions.

5. How long will I have access to this tutorial?

Forever!

6. Do I need special props?

Props suggested are: yoga blocks, strap, blanket, pillow, chair, resistance band, kettlebell, dowel or similar, and squishy ball. Some or all will help with receiving the maximum benefit of the tutorial.

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ABOUT MOVEMENT LOGIC

The Movement Logic tutorials aim to enhance your problem-solving skills so you can work more effectively with your students and clients who are injured or in pain.
Become Anatomically and Biomechanically Informed
  • Learn musculoskeletal anatomy to better understand how bodies move, adapt, maladapt, get injured, experience pain, and heal
  • Familiarize yourself with common pathologies to better understand the cascade of your body's response to tissue injury, as well as how pain is commonly patterned in response to these injuries
Understand Pain
  • You'll study up-to-date, biopsychosocial pain science that breaks down old beliefs in order to paint a more accurate picture of the often complicated and counterintuitive behavior of pain
  • The biopsychosocial model is a holistic perspective to pain that looks at the relationship between your biology, your mind, and society, and how those elements together influence your whole body experience of pain
Acquire Teaching Skills
  • You will acquire corrective exercise techniques for helping private clients who have diagnosed injuries as well as those with unspecified pain
  • You'll learn best practices for presenting these corrective exercises in a group class

COURSE CREATORS

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LAUREL BEVERSDORF

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DR. SARAH COURT

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ANULA MAIBERG-PIPER

TUTORIAL AVAILABLE NOW

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💪Osteoporosis-safe impact training: heel drops! 💪Osteoporosis-safe impact training: heel drops!
 
I got an excellent question from my post about improving bone density: 
 
🗣️How do you start impact training for people who already have osteoporosis, without running the risk of a fracture?
 
✅The answer: heel drops! 

➡️➡️Note that I’m letting my whole body relax as I land. You could also start with these in sitting, though the amount of impact will be decreased.
 
Questions? Comments? Let’s discuss!
Do you try to keep your elbows neutral? (4 joints) Do you try to keep your elbows neutral? (4 joints)

Your knees? (3 joints)

Your feet? (33 joints)

Your hands? (27 joints)

No?

You move them in all the ways?

Your trunk is made up of well over 300 joints!

The spine has 364 joints alone. Disc joints but also facet joints and rib joints.

Why are we so attached to neutral in core strength or stability exercises?

Asking for a friend. 🧐🤔
A stimulus is a load big enough to make a change. A stimulus is a load big enough to make a change. 

Everything is a load, but it’s the stimulating loads we’re after with exercise.

If the load isn’t stimulating it doesn’t make a change. It doesn’t, in the case of weight-lifting, make us stronger.

For example, ya know how sometimes when women start lifting weights, they choose 2lb dumbbells because unfortunately that image is typically how women lifting weights is represented in the mainstream?

In this case, the person lifting weights, likely won’t build much strength. A gallon of water weighs more than 2lbs.

Strength stimulating loads should feel quite a bit heavier than the typical loads of your everyday life. How much does your kid weigh, for example? Or your dog or your suitcase?

For exercise to induce strength, the magnitude of the load must be sufficient (aka stimulating).

For this reason I often encourage women to pick up heavier weights. 

That’s not the only way to increase load though.

Another way is, within a given exercise, to move the body’s joints through a full range of motion instead of through a partial range of motion.

This is also a way to improve your mobility right alongside your strength!

It’s also a way to target particularly weak joint angles (usually the end range ones) which really comes in handy in the asana practice where we sometimes need to be pretty dang strong is those awkward, end range angles.

Here I’m showing a sit to stand variation of the goblet squat, but instead of starting with the hips at 90 degrees of flexion (like they would be in typically before rising up from sitting in a chair) we start lower and then linger at depth to really hone strength at end range.

Try it! I bet you get more out of your weights.
In this episode, @sarahcourtdpt is joined by Dr. C In this episode, @sarahcourtdpt is joined by Dr. Chris Raynor (@stablekneez), orthopedic surgeon, sports medicine specialist, and founder of Human 2.0, an integrated healthcare and fitness facility in Ottawa that holds a “Movement Is Medicine” philosophy.

Sarah and Chris discuss how he managed to avoid surgeon stereotypes, why avoiding pain at all costs is not the answer, how to determine if surgery is the right approach, PLUS your Instagram questions answered! They also discuss:
 
➡️The difference between discomfort and pain, our tendencies to interpret all pain the same way, and the need to better interpret this “low level language” to make better movement choices

➡️Whether myofascial manual techniques are really making as much difference as we think they are

➡️How and when he steers patients away from surgery and towards strength and mobility work instead

➡️The frustrations he faces with non-musculoskeletal doctors who instill fear of movement in their patients through their own lack of knowledge

➡️How the conservative world of orthopedic surgeons is slowly changing with the newer generations to emphasize mobility and strength for themselves and their patients

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Hesitant about a barbell at home? It takes up less Hesitant about a barbell at home? It takes up less space than you think!
 
My office is 8’x12’ – it’s not a big room, but this fits fine. 

💪You can also get a 6’ barbell – mine is 7’ because I wanted the heaviest one.
 
💪Portable rack from amazon (about $70) + the ability to follow IKEA type directions (or taskrabbit if you really don’t want to bother) and VOILA!
 
⬇️Comment if you have questions!
If “bulking up” has stopped you from lifting a If “bulking up” has stopped you from lifting anything over 10 lbs, know this:

➡️ hypertrophy (increasing muscle mass) in the right amounts is good for you
 
➡️ how about we release ourselves from the dominion of the male gaze and build our bodies to look like whatever the f*** we want them to
 
And the one they don’t tell you:

➡️ lifting heavy builds strong bones, and strong bones don’t get osteoporosis
 
💪💪💪Let’s get stronger and HULK SMASH THE PATRIARCHY, shall we?
 

✅Want to lift heavy weights but don’t know where to start? We’ve got something in the works and you’re not gonna wanna miss it!

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💪Talk about #sneakystrength disguised as a mobi 💪Talk about #sneakystrength disguised as a mobility exercise😮
 
I have done hip dips from a forearm plank before, but from the shoulder is a whole new world (thank you, @stablekneez). 

➡️It highlighted my L shoulder relative weakness – initially I couldn’t get my left hip to the ground, but a little practice and they’re a lot more similar (funny how that works).
 
😉Yes, sometimes bodyweight IS enough to be a strength exercise

➡️⬇️Give this one a go and let me know what you think in the comments!
 
✅Also: there’s still time to sign up for a fr*e 15 minute check in with me
 
We can go over anything – a nagging pain, a client you need help with, a nudge of inspiration to keep going – it’s up to you!
 
BUT it’s only available to my mailing list – so click the link in bio or go to www.sarahcourtdpt.com
 
You’ll also receive an easy-to-follow series that takes you safely from bodyweight to using weights for squats, deadlifts and chest press.
 
🔗Link in bio or go to my site to sign up!
We’re delighted to share @sarahcourtdpt’s new We’re delighted to share @sarahcourtdpt’s new Cancer Resiliency Program for people going through treatment. Read more below! 
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My Cancer Resiliency Program is here!

This has been a labor of love, and I’m thrilled to finally share it with you.
 
My goal is for as many people as possible to benefit from this program!
 
🔗Learn more at the link in bio

🗣️Share with anyone you think would be interested

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📫DM me with any questions!
 
 
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[Video ID: photos of Sarah going through cancer treatment, followed by video clips from her Cancer Resiliency Program. Video is fully captioned.]
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