SKYWOLF MAMA WELLNESS

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Your feet affect your booty!

Your feet effect your butt! Yes truly.... let me explain.


I'm guessing you already know about the amazing web of connective tissue throughout our whole body called fascia. It covers every muscle fiber, ligament, organ nerve tendon and helps tissues slide and glide during movement. The best function is it distributes force through the body. Literally every step we take is because of our fascia. Now our skeleton is the base of it all and a place for muscles to attach onto. I mention all this because when we have chronic pains, or challenges like SI joint pain, pelvic floor dysfunction ect.. there is a disruption in the kinetic chain and it often means fascia is pulling. Every step means, extra force placed into certain spots that are not meant to have that much force.


Fun fact: fascia has 10,000 more nerve endings than muscle! This is leading practitioners to rethink pain and realize pain is coming from the fascia.


If you struggle to feel your glutes fire up in exercise take notice of your foot placement! Improper placement will prevent the glue muscles from getting their full range of motion thus being unable to fully contract and release. Reminder, your glutes are vital in supporting the lower back and pelvis.

When you duck walk with your feet turned out, the femur is externally rotated, causing fascia and muscles of your booty to clench and stay in a shortened position. This is very common in pregnancy and beyond. Classic mom butt! It often correlates to a tight posterior pelvic floor which contributes to leaking pee and lower back SI joint pain just to name a few. Strengthening your side butt and working on better foot alignment will make a huge difference.


When the feet are pigeon toed inward there can be a dip in the pelvis with rounding through the lower back, causing too much pressure on the knees, pelvis and lower lumbar, making your booty unable to fully engage.


Action: Start exploring what your habitual foot pattern is. Stand up right now and look at your cute feet. Notice if you change it slightly, in or out and the difference in engaging your glutes when you squat. See if you can notice the difference in your glutes while walking with better foot placement.

Try to find the tripod of your foot and keep that as you move.


Here is a video of 1 of my favorite booty exercises where you can focus on foot placement and REALLY FEEL the difference.