Awesome episode!!!

I’m in Victoria, BC and we had the bomb cyclone. Where I am, it was a regular winter wind storm, but other parts of the city did get hit a bit more.

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Hi Nora and Brian , thank you so much for your wonderful podcast, really enjoying it. Can you do a series on adductors. I have a client who has a surgery many years ago she can’t even tell me exactly what happened but every time we work through even a small amount of adduction she would have pain/ strain situation. Would love to get more information on anatomy and tactics how to rebuild her strength in that area.

Excellent review of the joint

How can you pin point pain between SI, sciatic, and piriformis?

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It's a really informative podcast. Thank you 👍

Your class is the best. Thank you.

So me with chondromalacia grade || won't play football again? I dont find a clear solution pathway for chondromalacia I watched all the video, please dive into chondromalacia more I'm desperate my life is just sad now

This was very informative and thought provoking. It deserves more views.

It was very good to know the Practical and theoretical information

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Very informative

Hi Beth, I love the rowing with the bands! I have a question about the double leg lift on our side : I had learned to do it with straight body but you seem to do it with legs angled towards the corner of the mat. Is it ok with straight body?

Re: the progress to regress…there is an exercise with the MELT Method that works in a similar manner as far as the overload the nervous system. It’s done lying on the MELT roller along the spine. Fingertips barely touch the floor, like spider legs, hover one foot just above the mat, an inch or so. Do both sides. Then try the same thing with no contact points on the mat. Super hard. Wobbles ahoy! Put the fingertips back, and notice how much easier that is compared with the first time you did it. Something also similar, my teacher was trying to work on planks on the reformer. Literally all the springs loaded, the carriage was not going to move, and my brain just couldn’t lift my knees to straighten my legs. I *knew* that the carriage wasn’t going to move, but I still had this mental image of the carriage opening and me face planting the springs. We came off the reformer, did a modified plank against a clinical bed/table in the gym space. She asked me how it was and I said it was pretty easy. We go back to the reformer to try it again and I managed to get my knees to lift to straighten my legs once or twice. The brain and nervous system are super powerful. Re: last minute pivot…my teacher gave me a home program early on. I knew that Christmas was coming up soon and that it would be 3 weeks between the last lesson of the year and first lesson of the next. I asked her if we could spend some time over the next few weeks prior to the break to work on the exercises because I was not confident enough to do them on my own yet (which she absolutely loved). I later thanked her for switching it up last minute and scrapping her plans. She said something to the effect of “I have to be fluid. I always have a plan, but it depends on the mind and body that walks through the door that day” and more often than not, she pivots plans.

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Have you heard that it is prohibited to bring the thigh to the chest after 6-9 months (and maybe forever) after anterior hip replacement?

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Respiratory viruses this time of year are often related to depleted Vitamin D levels, and levels are chronically low for at least 80% of Americans. VitD blood levels can be tested with a blood test, but most US doctors won't request it unless a patient insists. You can even purchase a kit to administer the pinprick test at home for ~$50. You want to have between 40 and 80ng/mL in your bloodstream. It's easy to supplement to get in this level -- somewhere around 5,000 IU/day (plus Vitamin K2) usually gets you in the ballpark; testing is the way to definitively know. Because of the metabolic paths to activate Vitamin D, it takes about 28 days for Vitamin D to be available for our immune system. This is why many of the COVID trials with VitD typically had no positive impact on outcomes. One other fact: vaccinations work by generating an immune response; that immune response consumes and can significantly lower VitD blood levels. It's easy and cheap to address this deficiency, but our healthcare system has never emphasized this preventative pathway. Get tested please, and level up. John Campbell on KZbin has had a series of excellent evidence-based videos about Vitamin D. For more info, look up recent vids on his channel. --phil [A Pilates student and a long-standing fan of Nora St. John]

I love " Video version " !! 😃

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Brian your voice is so good 😃 btw I'm Claire 🙂

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Subscribed. your channel is really helpful👍🏻 thank you

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