Body Habitat Rehab

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16/12/2025

Don’t miss the forest for the trees and don’t get stuck on chasing pain. Once your pain in daily life is under control, get specific about your performance goals.

22/08/2025

Your ribcage is the foundation for all upper body movement. Before doing fancy end range mobility drills, have a look at your breathing mechanics and ribcage dynamics.

That’s not to say more direct shoulder work isn’t necessary, but your shoulder function will always be limited by the structure it sits on.

17/08/2025

A week at a rehab and performance gym.
But also a week in life of 2 humans beings who are running a business, managing 2 doggies, trying to stay sane, attempting to go to bed on time and truing not look at the prices of property in south Portugal 😂

1. We have achieved this huge postural change by focusing on A) developing the ability to create tension through the hand/wrist/forearm B) expanding Emma’s ribcage in a 360 degree C) teaching the blades to protract and be strong there.

2. Low back pain rehab. Yes, your core matters, but you’re probably not training it in a helpful way 🤷‍♀️

3. No words, just fluff 🐶

4. Restoring motion at the foot 🦶

5. Huge win of our foot and hip client 🎉

1. Rest 🌊

15/08/2025

I’ve seen people pick up a lot of tension in their feet/lower legs/legs when hinging.

Instead of allowing the knees to bend, shin to drop forward and yield into their hips, it’s almost like they are trying to PULL themselves into these positions.

This doesn’t feel very nice and also doesn’t really allow you to load the target tissues properly.

If this is you, there is a simple rule to think about:

on your way down ⬇️, relax your feet (or whatever is in contact with the floor) and allow gravity, bodyweight and maybe external weight to get you into the hinge

tissues will lenghten and load eccentrically

this can feel hard yes, but it doesn’t feel like you are exerting effort to pull yourself into the position

on your way up ⬆️,

this is where we need to transfer energy from the floor, to generate movement

here is where you push your feet down to extend your hips

tissues move concentrically and shorten as you get into hip extension

I’m talking about the hinge here, but this will be true for many other exercises.
In any case, don’t fight the floor on your way down okay ?

Have a nice hinge 🏋️‍♀️

30/06/2025

About 80% of people will deal with lower back issues at some point in their life. Many of the clients that come to see us arrive with flawed perceptions of what they need. This doesn't mean that the solution needs to be complex, but simply strengthening you core or doing some stretches not going to fix the problem long term.

Your body is designed to move. Restoring these movement capabilities is your way out of your pain.

20/06/2025

Bridging the gap between injury and performing in your sport with confidence again.

20/06/2025

Bridging the gap from injury back to sport

17/06/2025

Unfortunately my finger injury 5 weeks ago turned out to be worse than I thought. I’m still far away from getting back to climbing. On the bright side, I finally had the time and mental space to focus on improving my upper body function! Many of my clients have been hearing me joke about how ‘I coach my clients better than I coach myself.’ It was time to change that.

2.5 weeks ago I started Upper Body Basics program. It’s filled with exercises we use on our own clients. This update is after completing 4 cycles of phase 1 and 1 cycle of phase 2 (roughly 15 training sessions).

Aside from the postural improvements, I’m finally able to get my my fingers tickling each other behind my back! This has been a long term goal of mine but I’ve never managed to be consistent enough with any work to achieve it. Now in 3 weeks of consistent training - that did not include a single static stretch or Instagram trendy mobility exercises - I’ve been able to see this crazy progress in shoulder mobility.

Fix your ribcage position and get your scaps moving guys!

The rest of the videos are just some of the exercises I’ve been enjoying the most. Many more valuables ones included.

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