Wholistic Fitness

Dear Coach,

I request your advise on trying to recovery lower back flexibility: I did a bike fit test 2 days ago and I was surprised at how little flexibility I have in my lower back…my lower back is as hard as a table coach!!! They tell me this is a limiting factor in my aero position on the bike but I don’t know if it has any other performance and energetic repercussions. I believe my lack of flexibility and probably the tension of my lower back is product of years of playing football and abusing my spine hitting with my helmet. Do you have a special kinestetic routine for tabletop lower back cases like mine?

– FD,  Mexico

“…the key to teaching the lower back to ‘let go’ while simultaneously hammering out big cardio volumes/intensities is constancy of Practice and investment within continual Pranic composition…as long as we remain addicted to the muscle & oxygen system,  there is no chance for true Wholistic Balance within the capacities of the Human Vehicle.” – coach in Practice; utthita hasta gomokasana. photo by Ananda

Oh Mighty Limb’d Warrior,

oh yes…oh yesiree,  your gunked-up lower back has all SORTS of repercussions, the least of which is a limited aero-position!   as you get older,  we MUST DEVOTE yourself to freeing up the adhesions within the lower back, for stiffness in the lower back sets up immediate and chronic serial distortion within all facets of the physiology, anatomy, and worse of all; our psychospiritual wholeness.  Upside;  you have a coach who was paralyzed and self-healed from immovability to fluidity…ilg knows a Proven Path without drugs or surgery.  All that is required are the same Ancient Tools engaged by the Masters of Enlightenment;   Sweat, Stillness, and Faith.

this close to your next big ultra-bike race however,  is NOT the time to start an aggressive campaign to lengthening and softening the bricks in your lower back.   Medium Form Flexibility – the bread and butter kinesthetic routine of WF since 1982 – is still your best friend for the moment..i’m actually finishing up the final touches of our soon to be released video on it!   however,  the entire routine (it’s simple) is outlined in my THE WINTER ATHLETE book.   once we carve out an off-season – or an off year! – for you,  then without a DOUBT my secret weapon for a rapid deconstruction of lower back tightness is the ROCK VINYASA. both products can be researched and/or purchased in the WF Tribal Pro Shop.

the key to teaching the lower back to ‘let go’ while simultaneously hammering out big cardio volumes/intensities is constancy of Practice and investment within continual Pranic composition…as long as we remain addicted to the muscle & oxygen system,  there is no chance for true Wholistic Balance within the capacities of the Human Vehicle.

head bowed,

el coache