A list of fitness skills that will serve you for a lifetime

Learn how to:

- Relax your body on command

- Give good massages

- Build muscle mass and strength (crucial later in life)

- Improve your mobility

- Resolve joint pain

- Source and cook whole foods
These skills are the tenets of Sovereign Fitness.
The education system misses the mark when it comes to taking care of your body. You start your career with no skills to perform long-term and end up paying for it greatly.

I work with people who are a few years into their professional lives and have chronic pain already.
A lot of my clients succeeded professionally yet neglected their bodies along the way.

The only reason they’re working with me is that it started affecting them in all aspects of their lives.
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You can’t perform at work and lead your family when your body is broken.

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30 Nov
A lot of people with pain and posture problems fail to use their hips properly.

This inability forces your lower back to lift instead of your legs.

You become vulnerable to the slightest pressure.

One of the best exercise to resolve this issue is the Romanian Deadlift/Hinge
The Romanian Deadlift teaches you to load your hamstrings like a slingshot and generate power.

Many lose this ability over long seated years. They are less shock-resistant.
Other benefits include:

- Better hip/shoulder-blade coordination

- Grip strength

- Mobility, as gravity pulls the barbell down and stretches your hamstrings and glutes.

Start by lowering the weight or your hands right below your knees and slowly work your way to the shins.
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17 Nov
"Newborns do feel pain" reads the opening line of a 1987 New York Times article.

This reality came to light after decades of pressure from parents and laypeople pushed the medical monopoly to review the science.

Muscle relaxants and laughing gas were futile as it turned out. Image
The author Philip M. Boffey wrote that 77% of the babies who underwent surgery to repair a blood vessel defect between 1954-1983 worldwide did so without pain-killing drugs. Image
Several studies in the 1940s showed that babies did not respond to pinpricks in the arm like older kids and thus were immune to pain. Experts explained that this fact was due to an immature nervous system and other internal factors.

The science settled the consensus. Image
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12 Nov
All the time spent in this position pulls our spines apart from the neck to the lower back.

You lose the muscles that support your posture and restrict blood flow to the brain.

Add mouth-breathing, and you create even more toxic tension.

Save your head from the fall
People with weak neck extensors are unable to move their heads forward and back without shifting their bodies in the same direction.

The muscles are so disconnected that there needs to be a jerky compensation below.

This confusion affects them 24/7

I’m amazed at how many people go through life without enough scapular strength.

You waste so much energy to compensate for your inefficient arm movements and lack of upper back support.

A few minutes of shoulder-blade work twice a week will awaken these dormant muscles.
Read 4 tweets
11 Nov
Drop Lunges build shock-proof legs.

The impact is food for your arches and calves.

You show your muscles how to catch your falling body then use the energy to explode.

Your glutes and quads will swell up.

Start with Split Squats if you’re not shock-proof enough yet.
The Split Squat to Drop Lunge Pipeline/

1. Front-Foot Elevated Split Squats
2. Split Squats
3. Bulgarian Split Squats
4. Drop Lunges

Always done through a full range of motion like in my videos.
Read 4 tweets
7 Nov
Front-to-Back Lunges challenge many systems at once.

One leg propels your body while the other slows you down, then they switch roles.

You must follow the right rhythm to execute smoothly.

Your legs will heat up.

This exercise is excellent for your mind-muscle connections
Front Dumbbell variation. You can also hold them by your sides.
A barbell engages your core differently because the weight is further from your body.

You have to be more explosive to propel yourself, then you’re heavier on the way down.
Read 5 tweets
5 Nov
The way we wake up tells us a lot about ourselves, yet few people pay attention.

You feel the quality of your rest physically and mentally.

I’ve asked many sleep-deprived clients to describe the first two hours of their day.

This thread presents some common themes:
1/ Physical Pain

Some people wake up to the sound of pain instead of an alarm, a loud scream from one or multiple places in their bodies.

Waking up is a physical battle for them.
2/ Heavy Brain

Many people describe this heavy feeling of the brain. Their bodies get out of bed just fine, but their brains feel like an anvil or foggy sometimes for 2-4 hours.
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