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[QUOTE=kimf;2916582]Re: Foundation Training, I subscribed to the streaming a while back and honestly I came to the realization that I liked the original 12 minute YouTube video the best out of all of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOTvaRaDjI
Well, that was one heck of an intense 12 mins, and I think I learned the power of the hip hinge in ways I didn't know possible. |
03-17-21, 09:03 AM | ||
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Texas
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03-17-21, 10:03 AM | ||
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Location: New Jersey
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I purchased the Kindle version of the Foundation Training book as it came with a video (or two) I did it once or twice then forgot about it. I think I was having pain at the time and not sure if it helped - the pain may have gone away from rest or other exercise. I simply do not remember probably because it was not memorable. |
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03-19-21, 11:02 PM | |
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Atlantic Canada
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Back with some links to some videos. Unfortunately, some that I'd found were gone, and I'm assuming people have already looked at the videos on the Foundation Training YouTube channel - they're a mixed bag, but some worth watching.
If you're interested in the theory/approach in general, a guy did an 18 minute long video summarizing the content in the latest Foundation Training book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtG_qxinpmU For tutorials, I found this woman is a better instructor than Eric Goodman, although I recall the sound on her videos is quite bad: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv3...0JR0bLto9UYofA This guy is also better at teaching the founder than the guy who invented it, IMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZHmJwRuwuQ I haven't actually done any of the following videos. They were all posted during the past year, so I previewed them fairly carefully and saved them. They all look quite good. Here is an hour-long instructional session posted by a fitness/video studio as a livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NMBl0OdyGY Here is a half hour long flowing practice with good instruction posted by a gym, with reasonably good production quality/music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB8U0XUG8RA Finally, the Portland University Campus Rec posted some 45 minute long Foundation Training sessions. They're fairly gentle, although not necessarily fully true to the method - this guy seems to be a coach or athletic trainer who is enhancing the exercises with his own stuff, but it looks like an improvement to me, despite the crap quality filming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhubTzw2J4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf_cDjBN89Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8H2sOS_RaU&t=520s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2E_yoaxDr4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6Tj4H1_oI I've partly saved all of this stuff in case I try to convince myself to sign up for the streaming again! Hope it's helpful |
03-20-21, 07:45 AM | ||
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03-20-21, 10:55 AM | ||
Join Date: Dec 2006
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I know that the three short videos I did before I saw my sister yesterday were only a small part of this story, but it seems appropriate to share here: I have, since I was 13, been about a half in taller than my older sister and, since he hit adolescence, an inch taller than our younger brother. Last summer, I had a disturbing experience. My brother was visiting (he lives in a different state), and he and I were standing side by side. He was exactly as tall as I am. I looked down and noticed that while I was barefoot, he was wearing cross trainers, but even so, it was unnerving to see that I had shrunk so much (at 63). About two months later, I was talking to my sister as we stood near her car. She looked at me and said, 'Have you shrunk? You look shorter than I remember.' I pointed out I was wearing thin flip flops and she had on sandals with a thick sole. She harrumphed at that. And we did seem to be the same height, although we didn't compare. Those two experiences brought me up short (hahaha, inadvertent pun), and I decided to do something about it. I beefed up my T-Tapp and my Classical Stretch. I also added in serious non-yoga stretching—a program called Pietra Fitness—all of which I've been doing several times a week since November. When I did the 12 minute Foundation Training YouTube video, I felt taller all day long, and I knew that my posture had improved. I've been doing the shorter videos, one a day, since Kimf posted the first video. I saw my sister yesterday. I wore thin flip flops, and she wore thick soled hiking sandals. And I WAS TALLER than she!!!!!!!! I haven't had my height measured in a while, but I'll take being taller than my sister and, I hope, taller than my brother when I see him next. |
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