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First Fitness Fixer Post Telling All About It:

Welcome to the Fitness Fixer

Videos! Most Less Than a Minute Long. Learn Key Concepts and How to Apply Them:

Click Video/movie for all videos - includes stretches, strengthening, learning neutral spine, ankle rehab, more.

What Is Fitness as a Lifestyle, and How to Get Real Life Functional Exercise:

Hyperbarics, Altitude, Aviation:

What Is Neutral Spine and Hyperlordosis? Why Do They Matter? How to Use Neutral Spine In Real Life:

What Do Abdominal Muscles Have to Do With It All - You May Be Surprised:

Never Need Crunches Again:

Forensics! What Do Forensics Have to Do With Fixing Pain? Click to Find Out:

SCUBA:

Knee Pain:

Neck Pain:

Shoulder Pain, Rotator Cuff Injury, Impingement:

"Mystery" Lower Back Pain, SI Joint, Lordosis, Pain When Standing:

Discs/ Sciatica Can Heal:

Readers Tell Specifically How They Fixed Problems Using These Methods:

Readers Inspiring Stories

Tightening and clenching muscles is not functional (how muscles really work in life) or helpful to exercise:

Using Abdominal Muscles is Not Tightening or Pressing Navel to Spine
Gluteal Muscles Myth - Shaking The Dog's Paw
My replies to comments of Fast Fitness - Quick Relaxing Hip Stretch

It's Not Aging that Causes Exercise Injury - Check Bad Biomechanics and Bad Stretching:

Laugh:

Healthier Martial Arts Training and Mindset:

Weight Loss:

Breathing and Lung Function:

Swimming:

Cancer:

Massage:

Diabetes:

Osteoporosis:

Celiac:

Sport Drinks and Fitness Water:

Sport Specific:

Plyometrics:

Fast Fitness - Plyometric Partner Bench Press for Valentine's Week

Ankle Sprains, Fix Flat Arches:

Toes & Feet:

Yoga:

Change overarched (hyperlordotic) lower spine to neutral - Neutral Spine in 5 Seconds.
Warrior 3 or Virabhadrasana III - Stand on one foot, stretch arms forward and one leg lifted back - Fast Fitness - Stronger, Straighter Upper Back
One legged balance stance with crossed leg. I called it "putting on shoe" - Ancient Shoe Exercise for Hip Stretch and Balance and here is a video - Fast Fitness - Balance, Strength, Stretch, and Socks
Plank, Chaturanga Pose, 4 Legged Staff Pose - holding a pushup position - Fast Fitness - Strengthen by Changing Your Plank
Plank, Chaturanga lifting one arm and leg, 2 Legged Staff Pose - Abdominal Muscle Exercise - Better, Different, Not What You Think
Prevent wrist pain and compression during Chaturanga - Fast Fitness - Prevent Wrist Pain During Pushups and Cooking
Transfer healthful movement learned in class for daily life - Household Fitness in the New Year. First photo is of Vrksasana tree pose - standing on one foot with hands overhead
We never do The Stretch You Need The Least
Watch for this ankle mistake in Sukhasana or easy sitting pose, Padmasana or Lotus pose, and Baddha Konasana bound angle cobbler's pose - Unhealthy Yoga Ankles
Utkatasana - Don't overdo jutting the hips out in back when doing Utkatasana or mighty pose (chair pose) - Get Better Exercise From Your Chair
Instead of artificial, overstylized chair pose, use simple half-squat for good bending as a functional lifestyle to strengthen legs, stretch achilles tendon, and avoid bad bending that degenerates lumbar discs - Free Exercise and Free Back and Knee Pain Prevention - Healthy Bending. How often do we use it? - How Often Should You Be Healthy?
Nice toe stretches when sitting in Zeza - Healthy Toe Stretches
Sit and rise without your hands. Description - Quick and Easy Strength and Balance Exercise. Movie - Fast Fitness - Functional Agility, Flexibility, Strength
Easy Handstand or Adho Mukha Vrksasana (means Downward Facing Tree Pose). Description - Quick and Fun Arm and Body Strengthener. Movie - Fast Fitness - Easy Handstand for Balance, Upper Body Strength -The Movie.
Then add ekapada, or one leg stretch Leg Stretch that Strengthens Arms and learn how to fix the commonest mistake that stresses the lower spine in handstand - Fast Fitness - Fixing Your Handstand to Neutral Spine
Some ideas on "dhyana" or meditations/contemplations, the seventh limb of Ashtanga Yoga - Which Ancient Exercise Gives Focus and Concentration?
Why we use other stretches, not Pascimottananasana which translates as "back extension" stretch, although anatomically it is back flexion, or forward bending while sitting with legs straight in front - Sitting Badly Isn't Magically Healthy by Calling it a Hamstring Stretch
Why Pascimottananasana pose injures the vertebral discs whether it is done with straight or rounded back - Disc Pain, Not A Mystery, Easy To Fix

Use These Three Stretches Every Day:

Retrain Key Stretches:

Balance and Agility:

Strengthen Your Spirit as Daily Mindset:

Mental Fitness:

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