STAIRS - Unofficial Practice

Here are some simple ideas for gaining unofficial practice time whenever you need to climb up/down some stairs. These motions can be done as a dedicated session but here I would like to promote another way of practicing: throughout your day as you live your life. You can refer back to prior video post about the concept of ‘Unofficial Practice.’ The patterns include, roughly, 3 different areas of stimulation: hips, knees and feet. Notes: Hips and knees patterns can be regressed by standing 45 or even 90 degrees to the staircase Make sure each new contact with foot is silent, accurate, no dropping, no slamming Foot pattern - no ball of foot allowed on step, just the seam of the toes on edge, so you must construct and connect the whole foot yourself, strengthening it These patterns might ‘slow you down’ in your days, instead of simple 30 sec stair climb you might spend 2 min moving. Let’s take an example in which you did such a ‘micro practice’ 9 times throughout your day, 3