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The ability to rotate your hips and spine in sports and in life is very important. In fact we would say that highly athletic people rotate effortlessly, powerfully and safely. Look at the an NFL running back pivot and rotate as they out maneuver a lineman or a tennis player pop a beautiful backhand and you will see a thing of beauty. As rotation is part of life it also unfortunately causes damage in the body and not because rotation is itself a bad thing, quite the contrary. The problem is that most people we see and train rotate using the wrong part of their body and this means that they rotate from their lumbar spine. The joints of the lumbar spine are not designed to rotate more than 5 degrees at max and if you ever saw a human spine removed from the body you would understand very quickly by simply trying to rotate the low back. It just doesn’t rotate because of the way that the facet joint are designed. The joints are almost concave and do not allow much rotation at all.
The bottom line is that the lumbar spine is designed to flex and extend but not to rotate. Rather than rotating out of the lumbar spines we want to encourage rotation from the hips and the thoracic spine.
If you move up to the upper and middle back (thoracic spine ) you will see the facet joint are flat and smooth and are designed to handle rotation and lots of movement. So if you are asking yourself, okay, well then why doesn’t everyone just move from their thoracic spine and leave their lumbar spines out of it? That is a great question but the answer is that our lifestyles today do not facilitate movement from the thoracic spine because we are more sedentary than ever before. Also, the postures we expose our bodies to on a daily basis encourage the upper back to round and chest to sink (think of sitting in front of a computer screen for hours or sitting behind the car wheel). Most of the day we spend in flexed postures which paralyze the upper back from even moving at all. Thus we become Thoracic spine challenged and compensate by moving out of our lumbar spines.
The bottom line is that the lumbar spine is designed to flex and extend but not to rotate. Rather than rotating out of the lumbar spines we want to encourage rotation from the hips and the thoracic spine.
If you move up to the upper and middle back (thoracic spine ) you will see the facet joint are flat and smooth and are designed to handle rotation and lots of movement. So if you are asking yourself, okay, well then why doesn’t everyone just move from their thoracic spine and leave their lumbar spines out of it? That is a great question but the answer is that our lifestyles today do not facilitate movement from the thoracic spine because we are more sedentary than ever before. Also, the postures we expose our bodies to on a daily basis encourage the upper back to round and chest to sink (think of sitting in front of a computer screen for hours or sitting behind the car wheel). Most of the day we spend in flexed postures which paralyze the upper back from even moving at all. Thus we become Thoracic spine challenged and compensate by moving out of our lumbar spines.
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"Athletic Rotation always comes from the Hips and T-Spine"
Now what does this above topic have to do with rope training?
The video you will see today encourages you to rotate from the hips and to leave the lumbar spine rather still. Even though it doesn’t encourage a lot of movement from the thoracic spine it in no way takes away from T-spine mobility. If you concentrate on keeping a neutral spine and rotating out of your hips you will be learning some valuable information on athletic rotation. True athletic rotation ALWAYS occurs in the hips and in the Thoracic spine.
Watch the video and let us know your feedback at revoinfo@revolutionlajolla.com
The video you will see today encourages you to rotate from the hips and to leave the lumbar spine rather still. Even though it doesn’t encourage a lot of movement from the thoracic spine it in no way takes away from T-spine mobility. If you concentrate on keeping a neutral spine and rotating out of your hips you will be learning some valuable information on athletic rotation. True athletic rotation ALWAYS occurs in the hips and in the Thoracic spine.
Watch the video and let us know your feedback at revoinfo@revolutionlajolla.com