For the last day or so, I've been feeling as though my walking and posture are slightly off, with weight more on one leg than the other, and stressing my right hip a little.

Thinking about it this evening, I tried shifting my pelvis slightly to the right. This helps, in the sense that it feels more comfortable. But (so far) I haven't got that working for walking, only sitting and standing, and I have to keep shifting back into position.

This will be the first thing on my agenda with Emilie on Thursday, even if it has resolved before then.

ETA I have spoken to Emilie briefly; she watched me walk and said something about my left gluteus maximus, and we'll work on it Thursday.
I got to the gym in time to do some cardio and my biceps curls before my session with Emilie. As usual, we started with me telling her how things were going, and then she decided what to do. (I had one request, that she check my form on the hamstring bridge—it's fine, apparently I was just tired last night—and then at the very end remembered a question so we tacked another couple of minutes on after I'd signed for this session and made an appointment for a fortnight from now.

some of the details, cut for length )

Part of why the progress looks slow to me is that when I get something more or less down, we stop doing it as part of the training sessions. It absolutely makes sense that she wants to save our sessions for things I still need her help with, or new things—so, that refresher on the hamstring bridge, but we didn't bother with the balance thing on the foam roller—but it means that what I keep noticing and thinking about is new things being tricky or her having to fix my position or ask me to adjust my pelvis, and move my right foot slight, and "and breathe!" But while I'm thinking about posture and lengthening my torso, I'm much less conscious of foot position than when we started. [livejournal.com profile] nancylebov, I've been using that Alexander technique idea you mentioned a long time ago, about thinking of my body as hanging down from my head. Also just thinking in terms of length of torso: both of these work better for me than thinking about pulling my abs/stomach in, and a lot better than anything in the "don't slouch" direction.
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