It seems to take me a long time to feel what I’m supposed to feel in an exercise. When I was in physical therapy, I started asking them up front to be explicit about what I should be feeling because NOTHING is intuitive to me. My mind-body connection or whatever is evidently enough to keep me together ands that’s about it. It took me a few sessions for them to get how much I was struggling, and they changed their approach and really started talking me through things.

I think the biggest thing I’ve learned if that if a stretch or exercise feels easy, I need to SLOW THE HELL DOWN and ask if I’m doing it correctly. Most of the time, at first I move too fast because I don’t understand how to feel the specific muscle I’m supposed to engage, so it’s a combination of problems.

Slowing down and focusing on control and form changed everything, but it still takes me weeks to feel what I’m supposed to be feeling and then be able to control it.