Core Training or Strength Training? Melanie Byford-Young reveals the secret to focusing on both of these fitness aspects and demonstrates how core use determines what muscles can be activated.
Leslie Braverman
Using the Halo® Trainer, Melanie Byford-Young takes us through a series of small microadjustments and how to refine and tune the capacity to sit well.
Sitting is all about ease and this is especially true when reaching the arms away from the torso. Melanie Byford-Young demonstates a series of exercises that focus on arm work in a mid-range of motion that can counter-balance and restore the ability to sit well.
Hip, Hip, Hurrah. Today is all about tips for the hips in restoring the capacity to sit well.
What does it take to sit well? Our new monthly series breaks down the ways we can restore the capacity to sit with optimal posture and easy alignment.
Ah, that’s better. Melanie Byford-Young assists gueststar, Karen Shomaker in restoring the capacity to sit better by taking special care of the thoracic region.
How do we use internal and external cues with clients? Research on returning to sport and reaquisition of skill suggests that internal cues work well, but then we need an external focus to integrate multi-dimensions of a movement. Melanie Byford-Young explains how to link the musculature with the motion with Scooter on the reformer.
Our series on restoring upward rotation of the shoulders continues. Quite a few of our daily activities require overhead reaching and the shoulder girdle, head, neck and low back are vulnerable to injury without proper movement and stability in this region. Melanie and Lulu show us how to perform arm press on long box, keeping … Read more
