45: Incorporating FRC Into Yoga Classes with Clayton Weakly

Have you been hearing yoga teacher friends talk about PAILs and RAILs and CARs and 90/90 and you’re feeling a little left out because you have no idea what they’re talking about? No worries... we’re going to fix that today! Clayton Weakly is a friend of mine and while he started his teaching career as a Yoga Tune Up teacher he now works as a Functional Range Conditioning movement coach. We’ve got him on the podcast sharing tons of great ideas for incorporating FRC into yoga classes! In this episode you’ll hear: what Functional Range Conditioning, or FRC®, is and how it is different from other mobility systems an explanation of the basic principles of FRC like: CARs-- Controlled Articular Rotations PAILs -- progressive angular isometric loading RAILs -- regressive angular isometric loading how FRC is different from PNF Stretching why mobility training, body control and joint strength are ideas yoga teachers should be thinking about some simple ways that yoga teachers could start to incorporate these principles into their teaching