Use Your Glutes

Remember first learning gimasae and sodosae? They felt so awkward, and you couldn’t hold them for very long. How did the senior students make them look so natural?!

The key to mastering challenging stances is to effectively utilize your strongest muscles. Put your rear in gear and engage those glute muscles. Use both legs. Activate your core. These muscles move us all day long and are designed to power us.

Dumping your weight into one leg will fatigue you faster. Overextending knee muscles is a recipe for injury. Collapsed ankles do not provide stability. Trying to use weaker muscles to power your movement will only slow you down.

Life lesson: use your strengths. 

Just like when stances improve when we use our strongest muscles, so too will life improve when you figure out how to utilize your strengths. The more you can do working from your strengths, the more naturally you will move through life. 

Spending too much time in your areas of weakness will just be awkward, inefficient, and could ultimately harm you. Not a recipe for success.

When do you feel at your natural best? 

Do more of that.