SmartStrength
4 Master Sessions
Earn leg power through a practical and skillful approach.
“Check-Ups” In SmartBody Highlight the Weaker Body Parts.
That is what gives you the proper starting point to learn exactly how to Improve them. Your muscle strength helps protect your joints. Losing some of this strength – is often one reason behind the achy or stiff joints you may experience. Knowing your own place to safely begin and progress, makes learning how to move better easier; this is a win-win for degenerative joint conditions.
FOUR Sessions Give Practical Solutions to Overcome Achy Joints Physical Limits.
Gain better resilience & strength specific to the daily physical daily tasks you do.
Eliminate stress to vulnerable knees, back or hips by fine-tuning movement habits.
Have reassurance to direct and lasting felt leg strength leg now, and in future years.
In STRENGTH’S Four Sessions Below…
SESSION 1: Core Strength for a Better Back, Balance & Body
Laugh, cough, pull a full trashbag out of the bin. Each time, the deep muscles low in your belly and along your pelvic floor should tighten on their own. They support your breathing too.
This is the core work from Better Backs and Better Balance, gathered here for strength. You’ll find those muscles seated, with a ball and a belt, build them with short holds, then put them to work in lifting, carrying, and your workouts.
When the middle holds, your arms & legs have the foundation to lift and push from.
SESSION 2: Use Your Hands to Get up From a Chair? Start here.
You stand up and sit down about 45 times a day: chairs, the car, the toilet, the couch. No squat at the gym gets that much practice. Done well, each one builds your legs. Leaning on your hands, each one asks them for less.
If your hands help now, start here. Hands are a bridge and baseline to start. You’ll wake up your legs seated, with three simple moves, then find the chair height that lets them learn the job without straining your knees or back.
That’s why this skill shows up in Better Backs and Better Balance too. It touches nearly everything you do.
SESSION 3: Fine Tune Two Habits & Always Have Leg Strength
Getting up from a chair and climbing stairs can build your legs or wear them down. This session makes them build.
For the chair, you keep progressing: more repetitions, less help from your hands, a lower seat, and finally speed, which is where power comes from. For stairs, you start on a 2-inch book with your knee lined up over your foot, holding the weight for a few seconds, then move to 4 inches and a real step. The same forward glide that lifts you from a chair carries you up.
SESSION 4: More Pep in Your Step with Stronger Lower Legs
If your walk has turned into more lift than push from your feet, look at your calves. They’re the engine behind each step, and they lose strength early.
This is the lower-leg work from Better Balance, aimed here at your walking. A heel-raise check shows where you stand. Practice builds from holding up on your toes to slow, controlled lifts without your hands.
Skip this one if you’ve had foot surgery or have foot problems.
