Precerpt from Grandma's Ninja Training Diary: Front‑Loaded
When I first started Ninja training with Brittany, I noticed something odd. Every exercise seemed to build the front of my body—my quads, my hip flexors, my abs—but not the back. I didn’t have the vocabulary for it then, but I could feel myself becoming front‑loaded. My body felt like it was tipping forward into the world instead of standing upright inside itself. I pointed out to Brittany this sense of imbalance. She didn’t give me a lecture about anatomy. She simply handed me the antidotes: a few back‑body exercises that woke up muscles I didn’t even realize had gone quiet. Within a week, I felt balanced again. Upright. Integrated. Now, years later, I’m still balanced—but I can’t remember what unbalanced me or what she gave me to fix it. So, here’s my best reconstruction. Most of us spend decades living in our front bodies. We run forward, bend forward, carry forward, type forward, cook forward, clean forward, care forward. The hip flexors tighten, the quads take over, the chest roun...