Supine monster walk. Call it whatever you want, doesn't matter to me.
Now, before you instagram judges go getting all critical of my girl @cjsal's technique, realize that she was gracious enough to let me post this as a teaching moment for you. Additionally, she's part of my squad, so I got her back. Thirdly, just look at her legs though ?. Lastly, she likely lifts more than you. So, zip it.
Moving on, one of the concepts I always teach is that if you see symptoms bilaterally (or front and back), look and treat something more proximally. This video shows both knees doing some funky stuff when she jerks, and while there are undoubtedly a million drills she can do, I'm all about regressing to progress (and I've also treated her in the past and know that she's got some midline sequencing dysfunction), so I took it to the ground to work on her “core” and hips, and how they were playing together.
The goal of the drill is the same as that with a typical monster walk, just flipped on your back. Feet stay flat on the wall like they would be if you were standing and they were on the ground. Knees should stay in line with or wider than the feet with each “side-step”. She's got some torsion so I'm fine with her feet being turned out. Take it easy, internet coaches. ?
Camille reported initially feeling the drill in her right hip flexor, so I added the red band for her to pull against with her arms, which promotes core/midline recruitment, allowing those hip flexors to relax in this case since she could stop using them for core stability.
Why go to the ground? Because we're good on our feet. We live there. We compensate best there. The ground exposes you and allows you to focus on using the proper muscles and patterns. Next stop, quadruped.
I left the sound on, well, because it's funny. Don't take yourselves so seriously.
Give it a shot and lemme know what you think.
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