 Alright, our next caller is Mike from Pennsylvania. Hey, Mike. What's up? How can we go Mike? What's up? Good good. What's going on man? We got a live one. Oh, let's go dude. First of all, I want to say Thank you for having me on love the podcast Young personal trainer love listening you guys you guys have such good advice that you know can't really get from a lot of People but so I have a question So I need to know how do I balance out my core again because like as a kid No problems. No injuries as I'm growing older. I have like a left shoulder problem hip You know we all problems, but I tend to use my right side of my core like on every single exercise core non-core Um, and it seems like I'm using my top left ad in my my second to top right ad But but the whole core on my right side. I'm activating that way more and I'm you know I don't know if it's because my hip might you know High ankle spray and shoulder, but I guess my question for you guys would be where do I start? To get that imbalance back. Well, there's there's two things that come to mind right away for me is One I would definitely do if you don't have maps prime I would do an assessment to see if there's a breakdown and there's a good chance You've got a breakdown somewhere all the way down to your feet, right? And that's running all the way up the kinetic chain So that's the first thing is I'm trying to look to see if I have limited range of motion in one of my major Joints from the foot all the way up, right? So that'd be the first thing and then an exercise that seems very tedious and I remember I Rarely did it as a personal trainer and later on found the value of this would be the quadruped And when you do the quadruped do not do it like you see some some trainers and some people in the gym We're just kind of going back and forth like as fast as they can through the exercise like you are trying to articulate every inch of that movement And make it look perfect and seamless on both sides and you're probably going to see and Feel a discrepancy on one side or the other and your your goal is to get that to to match It's a great exercise We call the bird dog to for other people don't know what that quadruped is but yeah So opposite arm and leg and really pointing your your fingers on your toes in opposite directions But not allowing your hips to rotate is that the biggest part of that Exercise that you need to focus on but yeah to be able to to to figure that out You'll be able to actually see a quite a bit of a discrepancy there if it's there and and to be able to stay in there And really intensify the tension in your muscles to start trying to communicate again where you need to communicate Yeah, you can put a stick down your spine while you're doing bird dogs and Making sure that the stick stays in contact with the different points your spine so back of the head Upper shoulders the the pelvis so that when you're doing it doesn't fall You know, I don't think we have yeah, I mean really I think we did a bird dog We did do one, but I mean not in like you know what we're shooting great We're she we're shooting fitness tips. I think today or tomorrow with Eli put that on our list Because that's you know that it's such a Basic movement that I think people are familiar with but no one really does it well I think and so we can talk about like any of those Contralateral type movements and and exercise you can incorporate where we get that sort of Rotating left to right or like just just getting that type of channel opened up is gonna help This is also how I would prime all of your workouts. That would be part of my warm-up now if I was you So that would have I would start my workouts with this exercise to get everything kind of firing Equally before you go into your other bigger movements. Yeah Now you did say a couple things that were a little confusing you said something about your upper left ab or upper right Ab so as far as the abs are concerned. They don't really work that way It's there's two attachments and so you're not gonna activate one, you know brick of your ab over the other However, you can definitely have a left-to-right imbalance because of the external internal obliques and so one thing you can test Mike is your rotational ability so So you know you can try a windmill or you can just stand up straight Rotate as far as you can without twisting your hips in one direction try in the other direction and see if there's a difference between the two and Rotational exercises will help typically balance out the right-to-left discrepancy when it comes to the core Well, this is why I recommend maps prime, right? So maps prime is going to highlight that so if in there is the windmill test So it's gonna highlight the rotational component that Sal's talking about and then it's also gonna highlight what I was talking about with You may have some sort of breakdown in your feet and work your way up So it's gonna tell you a lot and in there whichever wherever you have breakdown There's exercises and movements that you should specifically be doing to address that issue and that should literally become Your routine that you follow before all your workouts to prime the body properly to start to start and balance the same You have access to maps prime Mike. I Do not so I started listening to you guys like a month ago So like I'm kind of catching up on all this stuff. All right. Um, yeah, I do not I definitely want to We're gonna send we're gonna send that to you and because you're a trainer It's gonna be extremely valuable for your clients as well Oh, yeah, the compass test and the priming movements It's gonna be tremendous for how you end up training your clients It's a tremendous tool and if there's any trainers listening right now if you don't have maps prime You're making a huge mistake. It's extremely valuable tool for a trainer Mike I always like to ask to our trainers. Uh, who's your favorite host and why is it me? Oh, oh Here's my favorite dude. I all three you guys man My favorite part is like about the podcast is the beginning part where you guys get a little, you know in the conspiracies and stuff Well, Mike, I'm gonna take away. I'm gonna take maps prime back away I'm just kidding. Thanks for calling man Hey, hey, hey, good luck to you guys. I appreciate guys answer my call man. No problem. Thanks, Mike Yeah, if you're a trainer, I Swear to God, I wish I had this as a trainer. I mean, oh my god prime Are you kidding me the kind of information that you get in maps prime? Used to be a thousand dollar certification. You'd have to go spend a thousand dollars get certified I say it at least once every hundred episodes that if you are a trainer and you don't own prime And you don't own prime pro. You're an asshole Just flat out like I like that you and we by the way, and there's a free go to the free webinar Don't buy it go to the fucking free webinars watch it consume the content the information in there In my opinion if you're a coach right a trainer, this isn't I mean, I think the general population It's it's extremely valuable period But if you were a trainer when I think of the the things that I learned over the two decades training clients The information in both those programs Trump's everything else that we have by far. 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