Quadruped Progression (Gali-peds)

Gali-peds are a unique form of therapeutic movement tool designed to help you improve mobility, strength, balance, and coordination. They feature four adjustable feet with flexible, anti-slip rubber cushions, allowing you to create a stable base for advanced quadrupedal movement activities such as crawling, bear crawls, crab walks, and various split stance exercises. The adjustable feet also allows you to customize your level of difficulty so you can progress safely and effectively and set your own personal

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This is Brent from the Brookbush Institute, bringing you a
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new variation of the quadruped,
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brought to me from a student and friend from Israel named Gali.
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We're going to call these Gali-peds. Melissa is going to come out and do them. I have to
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admit they have everybody shaking their head at just how ridiculously hard they
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are. It's kind of the mix between a quadruped crawl, I don't know if you
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have seen that video yet, but look that up, and then like a plank with
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elbows on ball and we're just going to smash those two things together into something
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harder. Alright so go ahead and demonstrate, again we're going to use the
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ball here on the back because I like to show my clients what stable really
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means right. So if we're doing a quadruped we want this to be a firm
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tabletop. So I'm going to leave the ball right there, and honestly just this,
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is remarkably difficult. To get somebody to draw in, to get them pushing back
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through their feet so they're engaging their glutes. Alright we want to make
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sure that we get nearly the balls of the feet on the ground and push that way, not
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driving the feet down into the floor; and then if we want to take this a step
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further, of course make sure their scapular is protracted, if we want to take
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this a step further we can have him just trying to lightly tap their knees to the
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ball, and bring the foot back. She's actually taking a step, putting her foot
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down and then taking a step back. That would be in between those two steps, so
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we could step forward and then step back, step forward, step back. Let's try to
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touch the, okay so that was one set, Melissa's going to take a little rest and
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then we're going to try this one more time. So Melissa did hold, and then the next
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step was to take a step forward, put your foot down, take a step back. The last
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thing we're going to try is to lift one foot up, touch the ball with the knee and
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bring the foot back without it touching the floor, without losing this softball,
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super super hard. Alright Gali-ped, so you can thank Gali
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for this one. Here we go so making sure for
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sure her scapular is protracted and stable, put the ball there, notice her glutes her
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engaged to drive her feet through the floor, and now she's going to try to touch
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the ball and bring her foot back to the starting position without touching the
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ground. Oh oh so tough, so tough. Alright she's
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got some work to do on that progression. You guys check this progression out, add
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it to your repertoire. We now have yet another quadruped progression
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which i think is great, because this is such good anti-rotation, TVA, intrinsic
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stabilization subsystem activity, which i think we could all use a little more of.