Feel guilty because you can't do all the exercises you want to do? Do you do exercises that are supposed to make you feel good, even though they make you feel bad? Fix your approach so you can fix your body.

Transcript:
Hey, everybody! This is Matt Hsu from Upright Health and welcome to Episode 18 of the Upright Health Podcast. I apologize that it has been almost a month since I last recorded a podcast. In that intervening four weeks, I was working on and finishing The FAI Fix, which you can check out at TheFAIFix.com. It is a two-eBook and sixty-video package of just amazing stuff to help you with your hips -- to help you figure out what you can do to make your hips work better, feel better and move better. My friend Shane and I, worked on this project for the last six months, putting everything together to create a program that you can use to troubleshoot your own hip problems and hopefully, help you avoid making bad decisions like getting surgery for things that can be solved relatively easily and non-invasively.
So today's podcast is actually related to that. I would have recorded this podcast sooner if I hadn’t also initiated a move of Upright Health to a new location. So that is the other reason why I have been delayed in doing this episode. My time has been really stretched extremely thin. And I just have not had time to get back on here to talk with you guys. So again, I apologize. It's because of The FAI Fix and the move to a new facility that I have been unable to speak here.
Anyway, back on topic. Today, I want to talk about focus. And the reason I said this is related to The FAI Fix, is because in The FAI Fix, we talk about picking and choosing exercises from the program that we've laid out to maximize your personal, individual benefit. So anytime I'm working with a group of people, I'm always very, very, very careful to mention that not everything we do -- not everything that I have a group of people do -- is going to be good for every individual in the group.
Similarly, with the FAI Fix, we have a bunch of exercises in there that can actually be not good for you if your body is set up in certain ways, whether it's because of poor movement habits; because of atrophy; because certain muscles are too tight. There are going to be exercises that would actually make your problems worse. And so we talk about, many, many times, about the importance of paying attention to what your body is telling you -- how you are feeling -- and focusing really clearly on those things that help you the most.
So in this program, we have about fifty-five, I believe, different exercises in there (it could be more) that are targeted at your hips in different ways. I can guarantee that at any given time, not all fifty-five are going to help somebody. And at least ten to fifteen to maybe even twenty, if done at the wrong time, will make somebody worse.
So when we are looking at exercise selection; when you are looking at what you should be doing for your body, whether it's for your shoulders or for your hips or for your posture or whatever your goal is,  you need to take a look at the effect it has on you. So one really good example of this is people who have Sciatica; whether it's actual Sciatica; whether it feels like Sciatica but the doctor hasn’t told them it's Sciatica. If you're not familiar with it, Sciatica is basically when the sciatic nerve, which runs down the back of your leg and down into your foot, it's when that nerve gets impinged; when it gets choked off somewhere along its roots. Traditionally, it's thought of as impingement up near the spine; usually a disc is pushing up against it. In the last ten years, I'd say it's starting to become more recognized that the external rotators of the hip (so, the Piriformis) can also tighten up and pinch that nerve. And so those two causes are often, these days, looked at to try to help alleviate pain down the back of th...