Guest Post By Daragh Crowley
What the heck was Daragh having me do here? Read to the bottom to find out!
Try standing on one leg and doing
a squat without shifting your pelvis or rotating. Tricky, right?
Now stand on both legs, activate
your pelvic floor, squeeze your glutes on both sides, and tighten your lower
abdominals. Then lift one foot, and try the squat again. Better?
On the first go-round, maybe, maybe
not. But with practice, an optimally aligned single-leg squat is certainly
within most of our grasps.
The thing is, if you're an amputee like Travis, you don't have the luxury of standing on both legs while engaging your pelvic floor, glutes, and abs. You see, Travis was born without a
femur in his left leg. Although he ambulates well with the aid of an above-knee
prosthesis, he doesn’t have the benefit of feedback from two feet touching the
ground.
