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Why Glute Bridges Don’t Work for Many Hypermobile People

This week I sat down with a new online client and we had a conversation I’ve had hundreds of times before.

She said something that perfectly captures the hypermobility struggle:

"I know when I'm doing glute bridges they look like they're supposed to — but they don't feel like they're supposed to. You can see the compensations that other coaches haven't been able to."

There’s a lot of truth in that.

In the hypermobility world, “good enough” isn’t good enough.

I often tell my clients that the reason I’m able to coach people out of chronic pain is because I stopped looking for what looks right and started looking for what is optimal.

When your ligaments are lax, your body becomes a master of disguise. It will find a thousand ways to cheat a movement — hanging on a joint here, flaring a rib there — all while looking perfectly fine to the untrained eye.

Over the years I’ve had to become incredibly nitpicky. My movement standards are extremely high because with hypermobile bodies, micro-adjustments are often the difference between living in pain and moving with freedom.