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Tera Sandona

hamstring stiffness

October 17, 2023 · In: Body Region Support, Hip, Science-Backed Education

Chronic Hamstring Stiffness? Here’s What You Need to Know

Hamstring stiffness affects a lot of people. Why are the hamstrings a commonly stiff muscle group? This post will address anatomy of the hamstrings, reasons stiffness may occur, and exercises…

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tech neck help

October 10, 2023 · In: Body Region Support, Neck/Jaw, Science-Backed Education

What You Should Know About Tech Neck: Relieve the Pain

With the use of smartphones and electronics on the rise, a normal day’s work and simple mindless scrolling can sometimes end in pain. Tech neck is on the rise as…

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knee pain hiking downhill

October 3, 2023 · In: Body Region Support, Knee, Science-Backed Education

Knee Pain Hiking Downhill: Prevention and Treatment

Are you one of the many individuals who has experienced knee pain hiking downhill? You start off on a great day of hiking, especially in the warmer weather of SoCal,…

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single leg stability

September 26, 2023 · In: Movement, Strength for Resilience

Why Single Leg Stability is Important for Daily Function

Do you have the ability to stand on one leg? Seems simple, right? However, this basic act forms the cornerstone of functional fitness. Single leg stability is an important aspect…

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shoulder rehab exercises

September 12, 2023 · In: Movement, Strength for Resilience

5 Important Shoulder Rehab Exercises for Optimal Function

While there is no one exercise that is best for the shoulder, there are a combination of shoulder rehab exercises that can work really well together. These 5 exercises target…

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glute activation

September 5, 2023 · In: Pain Science and Healing, Science-Backed Education

The Science Behind Why Glute Activation is Important

Glute activation has been a buzz word in the fitness community for a while now. What is being referred to as glute activation? Why is it important? And is it…

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I'm a practicing physical therapist based out of sunny SoCal who loves to educate others and share information and knowledge. You can typically find me hard at work trying to manage normal life or cuddled up under a blanket enjoying coffee or desserts I can never seem to get away from!

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Can’t Stay Consistent With Exercise? It’s Not a Discipline Problem

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Wired/restless and heavy/depleted are both signals Wired/restless and heavy/depleted are both signals of nervous system overload. They show up differently and they need opposite responses.

Wired looks like:
- can’t sit still
- mind racing
- looking at your phone every 2 minutes
- exhausted, but unable to fall asleep

The system is activated and the activation needs somewhere to go. Gentle movement helps because it gives that activation a channel out of the body. It could be a walk, slow mobility work, or doing the dishes. Anything that lets the system move without adding load.

Depleted looks like:
- limbs feel like lead
- brain is foggy
- hard to make a decision
- hard to get off the couch

The system is running on empty. Adding movement compounds the load and the body crashes harder.

It’s the same dysregulation with two presentations. Reaching for the wrong one is mostly why recovery doesn’t work.

Most women I work with describe themselves as “always tired, but wired” or “wired but exhausted.” That’s not a contradiction. It’s your nervous system telling you which lane you’re in on a given hour of a given day.

What your body is signaling changes. The response should too.

If you want help reading your own signals, comment SIGNALS for the free nervous system workbook.

#burnoutrecovery #burnoutrecoverycoaching #regulateyournervoussystem #hsp #highlysensitiveperson
The label got attached to slow yoga, easy walks, a The label got attached to slow yoga, easy walks, and gentle bike rides. Active recovery became a category of workouts.

But the label is doing the wrong job. What makes movement “recovery” isn’t the modality. It’s whether your body finishes with more capacity than it started with.

A 20 minute walk can be active recovery on a Monday and a workout your body can’t handle on a Wednesday. It’s the same walk on a different day with a different answer.

The thing most of us are missing isn’t a better workout schedule. It’s a daily look at what your body can actually hold. Some days, that assessment points to movement. Some days, it points to rest. Either one, when it’s used at the right time, it supports the body. When used at the wrong time, it makes things worse.

If you want help learning to read your body signals, comment SIGNALS for the free nervous system workbook.

#activerecovery #pushcrashcycle #listentoyourbody #nervoussystemregulation #chronicpainmanagement
This pattern was mine for years. And if your weeke This pattern was mine for years. And if your weekend looks anything like the one I am about to describe, you already know how Sunday night feels.

Rough week, exhausted by Friday, on the couch all weekend hoping to reset. Sunday night, I would be more depleted than when I started with nothing prepped for the week ahead. And the conclusions running through my head about what kind of person I must be to keep ending up here did not help.

The fix I always reached for was discipline…more structure, more consistency, and more grit. The crash kept coming anyway.

What moved the needle was learning to read what my body could hold, day by day. Some days a workout, some days a walk, some days a couch Sunday was the choice. The decision was made each morning, based on what was actually there.

If you want help learning to read the signs and what to do for them, comment SIGNALS and I will send you the free nervous system workbook.

#chronicpain #chronicfatigue #nervoussystemhealth #painscience #listentoyourbody
If by Wednesday you are already running on fumes, If by Wednesday you are already running on fumes, this one is for you. I called myself undisciplined for years.

Every Sunday night I would land on the same conclusion: more structure, more consistency, and more grit. That was the fix. And every Friday I would crash anyway.

Here is what I did not know about the cycle.

Both doors lead to the same room.

Door one is push. The body sends signals about what it can hold that day. Discipline overrides the signal. Push past the signal once, you crash once. Push past it for a year, you live in the crash.

Door two is rest. The week was rough so the weekend is for resetting. You sit Saturday hoping it works. Sunday comes and you feel worse, so you rest again. By Sunday night nothing is prepped and you are still depleted. The week starts in deficit, so you push harder to catch up, and the crash arrives by Friday.

Different doors. Same room. The room is the cycle.

The missing piece was never more discipline. It was a daily read on what my body could hold and the willingness to let the read be the decision instead of overriding it.

Some days the body can hold a workout. Some days a walk. Some days a couch Sunday is the work. The decision gets made each morning, based on what the body is signaling that day.

If you want help learning to read your own signals, comment SIGNALS for the free nervous system workbook.

#nervoussystemregulation #nervoussystemwork #burnoutisreal #lıstentoyourbody #reclaimyourenergy
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