Anatomy In Motion

The "Wake Your Body Up" course is truly transformative! It offers practical exercises that are easy to follow and incredibly effective. I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to improve their mobility and overall well-being!

Gary Ward’s guidance in Wake You Body Up Course enabled me to assess my body and its imbalances in a way I had never done before. His simple yet effective explanations helped me understand complex biomechanical concepts. I quickly realised how misaligned my body was and started understanding it better. Initially, the drills felt unusual, causing stiffness and fatigue in underused muscles. However, as I persisted, I experienced remarkable improvements: increased mobility, enhanced movement efficiency, and a greater ease in changing direction, especially noticeable while playing beach volleyball, e.g. when I need to move body in various directions during one second. My footwork, hand coordination, and overall agility improved significantly, again this is most noticeable while I play, e.g. to fast adjust various parts of my receive the ball or play in defense. I do feel that better own my body. One of the most striking revelations came through arm spiral movements. As a right-handed volleyball player, my right shoulder was chronically stiff due to repetitive spiking motions. Incorporating Ward’s exercises into my routine increased my range of motion, leading to faster, more powerful spikes with reduced shoulder pain although I didn’t consciously target to get this result at the program. Recently, my physiotherapist even noted that my lordosis had almost disappeared and that my core strength had greatly improved. I believe I achieved this result due to various cogs exercises from the Wake Up You Body.

I have been into movement over 30 years but predominantly in a gym one plane of motion environment. Living with pain and tightness just became a reality until this program opened my eyes. Never have I seen movment explained so simply and be able to embody the movement and feel tightness melt away in so short a time frame. It’s like a movement massage all so applicable to the activity we do most, walking and yet it makes you wonder why we never thought to move this way. Gary has a way of explaining it so succinctly and efficiently for anyone to grasp. I have only recently found this program but will use it for the rest of my life and hope to regain freedom in my body to do the fun athletic things I desire without pain.

The discovery of my feet and 'cog' relationship right up through the body has opened my eyes to so many things as a running coach and 'person of pain'. What seems so intuitive (now) was hidden in plain sight before.

It is so freeing in the body. Love it Gary

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