Kelley Graham's UnCarved Block Program
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Today I was doing what I am calling the modified planking. Just leaning forward against something in a seated position. When I do this I feel like I am able to better feel a stretch on my back that I cannot feel standing vertically nor do I feel like I have the ability to sense these stretches doing the normal planking.
Yesterday I was doing the exercise with the stick where we do the provoking step and chamber and then step back and switch sides and repeat. I didn't notice the feeling while doing the drill but after I stopped I felt like my neck in the front and around the collarbone area felt like it had been worked or stretched out a bit. But today I am feeling some soreness in the back of the neck around the c6-c7 area. Just wondering if that is something expected. I thought the provoking step was about the breast bone and ankles and the chambering about pulling the breast bone back to the center.
The transverse stretch that I've previously felt has always only been in the back part of the hip region. I posted more recently about how the part of my back that I feel stretch when I try to stand tall has been moving futher upwards. This feeling has continued to move a tiny bit higher and now when I am focusing on standing tall through this area it feels like the lower ribs are feeling a stretch going outwards. This most recent time I actually fetl a stretch going outwards that was sort of under the shoulder blades ...