Category Archives: Principles

PROGRESSIVE STAGES

An important aspect of Falk’s approach is it’s progressive nature. To achieve most benefit, the exercises should change as one’s movement and strength change. The issue is one of general strength. The exercises for a strong and pain-free person clearly must be different from those for a weak person suffering from years of neglect. Consider the Dumbbell Laterals. In a weakened state, I started with five-pound weights, doing maybe fifty laterals. Later the […]

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A SMALL EXAMPLE

Choosing the right exercises is an issue that is central to Falk’s view of exercise. What does it mean to do an exercise, say, to keep your feet and knees parallel? Suppose, for the moment, your feet turn out a bit as you walk. What exercise might help this? Let us first look at an exercise called Single Knee Bends. Especially for someone with a weak foot or a weak knee, this exercise […]

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