Courses Followed: Student of the Precision Movement Academy
My main reasons for investing in the course was pain, inflexibility, etc. Since I was young, I always hated my thighs. I felt like they were thick and clumsy, and I think this was partly because I did a lot of horse back riding (up to 5 horses a day) and strenuous exercise.
At 19-20 years old, I experienced back pain for the first time. I got over it quite quickly despite it being very painful, but knew that I hadn’t entirely solved the problem and it would come back. Through my 20’s I discovered alternative forms of exercise, mainly doing things at much lower intensity and I also started yoga, which helped a lot. At 25 I started going to a masseur once a month. All of this helped and I liked my thighs a lot more at this point, but still noticed that certain basic exercises were more difficult than they should be at my level of fitness. Exercises incl. one legged hip thrust, one legged squat, push up (winging).
I started Hip Control and Scap Strength at the same time. I experienced results such as changes in pain, mobility and being able to do things I couldn’t do before. For me, the biggest help came from the inner rotation exercises. They improved the small pains I had alongside my leg (sometimes groin pain, sometimes pain at side of knee, sometimes pain at side of hip).
Previously I had difficulties activating my glutes at a level I felt was satisfactory, but my ability to activate glutes improved tremendously. I had been doing glute exercises regularly for 3-4 years previously, but only got moderate results before the Hip Control course. I still can’t do a perfect one legged squat, but I feel I’m getting there. Also to any fellow women out there; The Hip Control really improves thigh shape if you suffer from square, “manly” thighs.
Things I’ve tried in the past that did not work were strenuous exercises such as running, sports, weights at the gym, indoor cycling etc. What helped in the past was yoga, walking, gentle stretches, masseur, physiotherapy exercises, low to medium intensity body weight or low weight muscular condition exercises.
Inner rotation exercises were my favourite and I found them particularly effective. I liked the fact that there so many of them. The elastic band exercise in Hip Flexibility where you use an elastic band to push back the head of the femur into the socket was really good for me. I actually improvised a little to get more variations to the exercise because it felt so good and seemed so effective for me.
...[I have] replaced most of my normal workouts with those from Precision Movement…
