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This is the RIGHT Position for Your Pelvis

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Show Notes

What should you do with your pelvis when you squat, touch your toes, or move through your day? Tip it forward, tuck it back, or hold it “neutral”?

Matt answers a frustrated and confused student’s email.

In this episode:

Why conflicting cues from different teachers aren’t necessarily a sign someone is wrong

Building comfort and control at both extremes of anterior and posterior tilt, so you have options through the full range

Matt’s own story: training out of a slumped, posterior-tilted posture, then overcorrecting into anterior tilt through lifting, surfing, and a different expert’s advice, and now emphasizing posterior tilt to find neutral

Why no one can eyeball your pelvis and femur angles and tell you what feels best

Balancing your habits: if you curl a lot (posterior tilt), add cobras and deadlifts; if you do lots of those, add planks, V-ups, and quad stretches

Using your body’s signals (range, comfort, stability) as the guide, and taking what works and leaving the rest

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