5 classes per week
This program is for advanced students who want to focus on upper body joints. We will be targeting the shoulders, scapula, general spine, and neck. This program features 5 classes per week for 3 months.
Week 1:
Day 1: Short Class 36
Day 2: Class 22
Day 3: Short Class 40
Day 4: Short Class 67
Day 5: Short Class 88
Week 2:
Day 1: Class 17
Day 2: Short Class 26
Day 3: Short Class 60
Day 4: Short Class 33
Day 5: Short Class 54
Week 3:
Day 1: Short Class 36
Day 2: Class 22
Day 3: Short Class 40
Day 4: Short Class 67
Day 5: Short Class 88
Week 4:
Day 1: Short Class 142
Day 2: Short Class 26
Day 3: Short Class 144
Day 4: Short Class 146
Day 5: Short Class 113
Week 5:
Day 1: Short Class 36
Day 2: Short Class 133
Day 3: Short Class 40
Day 4: Short Class 82
Day 5: Short Class 20
Week 6:
Day 1: Short Class 88
Day 2: Class 22
Day 3: Short Class 66
Day 4: Short Class 67
Day 5: Short Class 144
Week 7:
Day 1: Short Class 57
Day 2: Short Class 26
Day 3: Short Class 40
Day 4: Short Class 33
Day 5: Short Class 142
Week 8:
Day 1: Short Class 36
Day 2: Short Class 113
Day 3: Short Class 15
Day 4: Short Class 82
Day 5: Short Class 88
Week 9:
Day 1: Short Class 41
Day 2: Class 22
Day 3: Short Class 40
Day 4: Short Class 67
Day 5: Short Class 133
Week 10:
Day 1: Class 17
Day 2: Short Class 26
Day 3: Short Class 60
Day 4: Short Class 33
Day 5: Short Class 66
Week 11:
Day 1: Short Class 142
Day 2: Short Class 133
Day 3: Short Class 144
Day 4: Short Class 146
Day 5: Class 22
Week 12:
Day 1: Short Class 36
Day 2: Short Class 26
Day 3: Short Class 40
Day 4: Short Class 82
Day 5: Short Class 88
I recommend to space out the sessions evenly through your week.
For Example:
Day 1: Monday
Day 2: Tuesday
Day 3: Wednesday
Day 4: Thursday
Day 5: Saturday
It doesn’t have to be these exact days, but I just recommend allowing for one day in-between Day 4 and Day 5.
Just a reminder - when training in areas of weakness, limitation, or past injury - it’s really important to keep your intensity levels low at first. The quality of tissue in these areas might not be very strong, so the amount of stress/force/load these tissues can absorb will be low at first. So keep those intensity levels low in the beginning, especially during PAILs/RAILs, and then gradually build up over time. The goal is to adhere to progressive overload and slowly build up. Always listen to your body and go at your own pace, and never work in any painful ranges of motion. Discomfort can be normal, but we never want that feeling to move towards a sharp pain, pinch, or twinge. It’s totally okay to work in smaller ranges of motion at first as well, and then gradually build up the range over time. Slowly building up in areas of weakness/limitation is definitely key!
I hope you enjoy the program!
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Class 17: Shoulder IR & ER
This class is all about rotational capacity of the shoulders (IR/ER).
Equipment Needed: Yoga Blocks and a Stick (Mobility Stick, PVC, maybe even a broom stick). FYI - for our IR base we'll be seating with our back against the wall.
Time Markers:
0:30 CARs (warm up)
4:50 Capsular CARs (Tall Kn... -
Class 22: Advanced Spine Circuit
Spine...meet progressive overload (Advanced Class)
Equipment Needed: Yoga Blocks. Weights are optional, but in the class we use Dumbbells, Kettlebells, Ankle Weights, and a weight belt.
Time Markers:
0:33 CARs (warm up)
5:55 Weighted Thoracic CARs (Wide Stance Base)
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Short Class 15: Scapular Depression & Elevation
This is our first Scapula only class, and we'll target both Scapular Depression and Elevation.
Equipment Needed: Stretch Band. I'm using the "OPTP Stretch Out Strap" and I got it on Amazon.
Time Markers:
0:15 CARs (warm up)
5:25 Scapular Elevation PAILs/RAILs (Seated Base)
14:13 Scapular Eleva... -
Short Class 20: Shoulder Abduction & Adduction
This class will focus on Shoulder Abduction and Adduction
Equipment Needed: Yoga Blocks
Time Markers:
0:08 CARs (warm up)
2:30 Shoulder Adduction PAILs/RAILs + Lift Offs (Tripod Base)
18:38 Shoulder Abduction PAILs/RAILs + Lift Offs (Prone Laying Base)
35:32 Finishing CARsHere we’ll explore ...
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Short Class 26: Thoracic Spine Extension & Rotation
This class is for the T-Spine. We’ll be focusing on Thoracic Extension & Rotation
Equipment: Yoga Blocks, A wall to put your back against, and something to anchor our hand down (we’re using a kettebell in the video). Also a stick will be optional.
Time Markers:
0:20 CARs (warm up)
6:05 Posteri... -
Short Class 33: Neck
This class with feature PAILs/RAILs for Neck Flexion, Rotation, and Extension.
No Equipment Needed.
Time Markers:
0:25 Neck CARS
2:30 Extension/Flexion Segmentation
4:10 Neck Flexion PAILs/RAILs
10:15 Neck Rotation PAILs/RAILs
21:40 Neck Extension PAILs/RAILs
27:50 Finishing CARsThis is our ...
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Short Class 36: Shoulder IR/ER/Flex (intermediate+)
This is an advanced shoulder class for IR, ER, and Flexion
Equipment Needed: Yoga Blocks. Weights are optional.
This class is great for anyone looking to advance their shoulder work, and this is our first class that targets 3 different PAILs/RAILs bases just for the shoulder.
We’ll do 3 round...
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Short Class 40: Scapula Pro/Ret/Dep (intermediate+)
This is an advanced class for Scapular Protraction, Retraction, and Depression.
Equipment Needed: Yoga Blocks, a stick, and a stretching band. Weights are optional.
This class is great for anyone looking to advance their scapula work, and this is our first class that targets 3 different PAILs/R...
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Short Class 41: Shoulder Circuit
Here’s a quick Shoulder Circuit snack
Equipment Needed: Yoga blocks. Tennis balls and weights are optional.
This will be an up-tempo class where we work multiple different shoulder drills. We’ll start the warm up doing bilateral movements, but after that we’ll work each shoulder individually -...
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Short Class 54: Shoulder Flexion
This will be a single joint focus class for Shoulder Flexion
Equipment Needed: Yoga Blocks
In conventional fitness we've created many overhead movements like shoulder presses, handstands, pull-ups, lat pulldowns, etc. All which require good Shoulder Flexion. Though if you assess the average per...
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Short Class 57: Shoulder End-Range Control
This class will help you develop greater end-range control of your shoulders
Equipment Needed: Yoga blocks, and we'll use the wall for one drill. Weights are optional.
We’ll work a series of different end-range control drills for every joint position of the shoulder (Flex/Ext/IR/ER/Abd/Add). Mo...
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Short Class 60: Scapular Retraction
This will be a single joint focus class for Scapular Retraction
Equipment needed: Yoga blocks and in one drill we're going to be using the wall.
Retraction is one of the most commonly limited areas for peoples in their scapula. In conventional fitness we're often told to retract our scapula to ...
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Short Class 66: Scapular Protraction
Single joint focus class for Scapular Protraction
Equipement needed: Yoga blocks.
Protraction is a range that we typically rest in often in our daily lives - at the desk, on the couch, etc. Most have solid passive range of motion here because of that, but they lack the active strength and cont...
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Short Class 67: Neck Extension and Flexion
This class is for Neck (Cervical Spine) Flexion and Extension
No Equipment Needed.
The neck is an area that a lot of people have STI's (Shitty Tissue Issues). They lack strength and neurological control in this area, mostly because we rarely train this area to be strong in traditional strength ...
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Short Class 82: Neck Lateral Flexion
This class is for Neck (Cervical Spine) Lateral Flexion
No Equipment Needed.
The neck is an area that a lot of people have STI's (Shitty Tissue Issues). They lack strength and neurological control in this area, mostly because we rarely train this area to be strong in traditional strength traini...
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Short Class 88: Shoulder Extension
This will be a single joint focus class for Shoulder Extension
Equipment Needed: We’ll be using a stick
We utilize a stick in this class, but if you don’t have a stick you can get creative. You can do this base from a kneeling position and you can prop your hand up on a table, chair, bench, or...
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Short Class 113: Low Back Rotation
Our first ever low back rotation class!
No equipment needed. But if you have limitations in your low back rotation, using yoga blocks can help decrease the overall range of motion in our PAILs/RAILs base.
This class is great for the low back, SI Joint, and even for the hips.
If the low back o...
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Short Class 133: Spine Lateral Flexion (QL Specific)
This class is for Spine Lateral Flexion
No equipment needed.
The QL is often an area of weakness and tightness for a lot of people, so I wanted to make a spine lateral flexion class to help target that area specifically.
Training spine lateral flexion PAILs/RAILs can be very tricky. A lot of...
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Short Class 142: Advanced Shoulder CARs
This class will feature Advanced Shoulder CAR variations
Equipment Needed: Light Dumbbells and 2 tennis balls
Here’s a link to some light dumbbells on amazon:
https://tinyurl.com/light-weightsFor a class like this, I recommend doing at least 3 months of Kinstretch beforehand.
This is essen...
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Short Class 144: Advanced Scapula CARs
This class will feature Advanced Scapular CAR variations
Equipment Needed: Dumbbells/weight and a cable resistance band
For a class like this, I recommend doing at least 3 months of Kinstretch beforehand.
This is essentially a circuit class where we’ll be going through several advanced scap...
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Short Class 146: Advanced Neck CARs
This class will feature Advanced Neck CAR variations
Equipment Needed: Yoga block
For a class like this, I recommend doing at least 3 months of Kinstretch beforehand.
This is essentially a circuit class where we’ll be going through several advanced neck movements one by one. If you need to, ...