CARs

CARs

This collection is fully dedicated to CARs (Controlled Articular Rotations) - what they are, how to do them properly, and how to make them actually work. You’ll find different CARs variations, base positions, and coaching cues that all serve the same purpose: teaching you clean, intentional joint rotations with real control. Use these videos to learn the fundamentals, fix common compensations, refine your technique, and build a CARs practice you can repeat confidently for any joint.

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CARs
  • Shoulder Capsule CARs Axial

    This video covers Shoulder Capsule CARs (Axial) - a controlled rotation drill used to prime the shoulder joint and capsule before focused internal rotation (IR) and external rotation (ER) work. The goal is simple: slow, deliberate movement through your maximum available range, while actively elim...

  • Seated Toe CARs

    This lesson video teaches Seated Toe CARs - a simple but surprisingly challenging drill to help you move your toes independently and build a stronger brain-to-toe connection. The focus is coordination: learning to separate toe movement, reduce “all-toes-at-once” compensation, and develop control ...

  • Seated Wrist CARs

    This lesson video teaches Seated Wrist CARs - a focused drill to develop independent wrist control and clean rotation. The goal is to explore your maximum available range in wrist flexion, extension, ulnar deviation, and radial deviation while eliminating compensations, especially unwanted forear...

  • Standing Spine CARs

    This lesson video breaks down Standing Spine CARs - a drill built to teach independent control of your spine through flexion, extension, and rotation. The main objective is spinal segmentation and awareness: moving the spine on purpose while minimizing compensation from the pelvis and hips. That ...

  • Shoulder Capsule CARs IR/ER

    This lesson video covers Shoulder Capsule CARs (IR/ER) - a targeted drill to prime the glenohumeral (GH) joint through internal and external rotation. The goal is to explore your maximum available IR and ER with slow, controlled movement while limiting compensations from the spine and ribcage. Yo...

  • Standing Hip CARs

    This lesson video teaches Standing Hip CARs - a key drill for developing real hip control through the full workspace: flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, and internal/external rotation. The objective is to move the hip independently, without “stealing” range from excessive pelvic rotation o...

  • Sphinx Neck CARs

    This lesson video covers Sphinx Neck CARs - a neck CARs variation that biases full spinal extension and encourages you to find maximal safe cervical extension while you rotate. The goal stays the same: explore your neck’s available range with slow, controlled movement, while actively eliminating...

  • Standing Scap CARs

    This lesson video teaches Standing Scap CARs - a foundational drill for developing true scapular control through protraction, elevation, retraction, and depression. The objective is to get fluid, intentional movement of the scapulae around the ribcage without compensating through bent elbows, swi...

  • Standing Neck CARs

    This lesson video covers Standing Neck CARs - a simple, accessible variation designed to teach controlled movement of the cervical spine without borrowing motion from the shoulders, ribs, or thoracic spine. The focus is slow, intentional control through flexion, extension, and smooth rotational m...

  • Standing Patella CARs

    This lesson video teaches Standing Patella CARs - a technique to help the patella (kneecap) glide more freely over the knee. The patella doesn’t rotate on its own, so this drill uses gentle, intentional finger guidance to “massage and steer” the kneecap through its available glide. It can feel tr...

  • Side-lying Hip CARs

    This lesson video covers Side-lying Hip CARs - an accessible variation that removes the balance challenge so you can focus purely on hip control. The objective is to move the hip through its workspace - flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, and internal/external rotation - while keeping the m...

  • Standing Shoulder CARs

    This lesson video teaches Standing Shoulder CARs - a foundational drill for controlling the glenohumeral (GH) joint through its full workspace: flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, and internal/external rotation. The focus is on fluid transitions between positions while actively eliminating ...

  • Tall-Kneeling Neck CARs

    This lesson video covers Tall-Kneeling Neck CARs - a neck CARs variation designed to build controlled cervical movement through flexion, extension, and smooth rotation, without borrowing motion from the shoulders, ribs, or thoracic spine. In this version we add a simple constraint: squeezing a bl...

  • Seated Ankle CARs

    This lesson video teaches Seated Ankle CARs - a drill to build slow, controlled ankle movement through dorsiflexion, plantarflexion, inversion, and eversion. The aim is to create a smooth, fluid circular motion at the end of your available range so you develop real foot and ankle control, not jus...

  • Seated Elbow CARs

    This lesson video covers Seated Elbow CARs - a drill to build slow, controlled elbow movement through flexion and extension, combined with forearm pronation and supination. The objective is to learn where your true range is, how to access it with control, and how to spot (and avoid) common compen...

  • Quadruped Shoulder CARs

    This lesson video teaches Quadruped Shoulder CARs - a foundational drill for controlling the glenohumeral (GH) joint through its full workspace: flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, and internal/external rotation. The goal isn’t the biggest circle - it’s clean control through your available...

  • Quadruped Scap CARs (Wide)

    This lesson video teaches Quadruped Scap CARs with a wider hand position - a simple tweak that makes scapular control noticeably harder than the standard quadruped setup. By widening the base, you’ll often feel the body want to cheat with the elbows, ribs, or torso shift. The objective is to keep...

  • Quadruped Scap CARs

    This lesson video teaches Quadruped Scap CARs in the standard hand-width position - the go-to setup for learning clean scapular control. The objective is to move the scapulae intentionally through protraction, retraction, elevation, and depression, creating smooth glide around the ribcage while k...

  • Knee Capsule CARs

    This lesson video covers Knee Capsule CARs - a prep drill used to prime the knee before deeper rotational work. The objective is to teach how knee rotation changes depending on position: you’ll explore the different degrees of available rotation in flexion vs extension, and learn what that should...

  • Seated Knee CARs

    This lesson video teaches Seated Knee CARs - a controlled way to explore the knee through flexion, extension, and internal/external rotation. The objective is slow, intentional movement so you learn what true knee motion feels like, where your available range is, and how to control it. We also hi...

  • Seated Patella CARs

    This Kinstretch Explained video teaches Seated Patella CARs - a practical way to help the patella (kneecap) glide more freely over the knee. The patella doesn’t rotate on its own, so this drill uses gentle finger guidance to massage and steer the kneecap through its available glide. It can feel t...

  • Side-lying Straight-leg Hip CARs

    This video covers Side-lying Straight-leg Hip CARs - a hip CARs variation used for workspace maintenance, priming, and quick diagnostics. Keeping the knee straight changes the game: it forces you to explore hip motion with less “wiggle room,” making it easier to notice where you lose control or s...

  • Bearsit Hip Capsule CARs

    This video covers Bearsit Hip Capsule CARs - a rotational priming drill designed to prepare the hip joint and capsule for deeper work, especially PAILs/RAILs and other isometric tension training. The purpose is to take the hip through slow, controlled internal/external rotation so the joint is “o...

  • Straddle Base Hip Capsule CARs

    This video covers Straddle Base Hip Capsule CARs - a straight-leg rotational priming drill that prepares the hip joint and capsule for deeper work, especially PAILs/RAILs and other high-tension isometrics. The purpose is to take the hip through slow, controlled internal/external rotation so the j...