Where is the waist
Where is the waist? Where are the hips?
hey everybody its Matt shoe here with
Josh hash and we are going to talk about
a topic today that gets everybody
confused it gets us confused he gets
clients confused and it's about this
whole area and we want to talk about the
waist the hips but the glutes what are
all of these things so we did we've done
a lot of talking with clients we say you
know use your hips you know use your
butt whatever and people would say well
what is that and you know you talk about
your waist you're like is that it's my
waist here or is it here and it gets
really confusing because the language we
use around it is all over the place so
we wanted to go over some key points
here so you know where things aren't
anatomically just so you understand what
people are talking about when they say
all these different words so we're gonna
start at the highest point of this whole
little crazy area to start making this
clear so the highest point when we talk
about the waist the waist is actually
generally defined as a narrowest part
between the ribs and the pelvis so on
Josh you can see narrowest point is
basically right above his belly button
it would be where his love handles would
be if he had love handles right now but
right now doesn't really have them so
good face the camera so you can see he's
got just just that little area it starts
to come out here right up above that's
where that that waistline is for him so
it's a narrowest point between the ribs
and then the iliac crests on you know
your pelvic bones okay so the real
confusion starts happening though when
we started thinking about the waist
because then we also have the waistline
with our pants right and that has
basically nothing to do with where
nobody wears them up here not anymore
yes yeah yeah you're like you're your
mom maybe what I'm talking about
so the waistline on their pants is all
the way down here we talk about the
waistband right it's down here is
nowhere near where the knot that suppose
a natural waist is okay on women is also
gonna be a little bit different and it's
gonna be different on different people
if you have a lot of extra belly fat
your waist
just maybe even hard to find right it
may not be that narrow here so but in
general we're thinking about
just above the belly button as being a
place where we consider it the waist in
terms of the hips the hips get the the
term hips gets used for basically
everything with the pelvis a lot of
times like you see somebody moving their
hips or swaying their hips from side to
side a lot of times people are just
talking about the entire pelvic region
that's fair when you're measuring
clothes
the hips are doing like a waist to hip
ratio a lot of times that's the whole
circumference around the widest portion
of your your pelvic area so it could
just be your whole butt all the way
around here now when we're talking about
hips what are we talking about well
we're talking about more of the
anatomical hip all right so kind of like
where your femurs coming into your
pelvis which is like where the hell is
that right that's yeah basically if
you're looking for like hip joint then
hip joint is super hard hard to actually
pout and you can't palpate into your hip
joint with your hands but what you can
find is on the sides of your legs you'll
find that like bony bony bony part up
here just lower than your waistband
there's gonna be like a super bony part
there if you moved up and then you moved
way in like if your fingers could go
straight deep in there
that's where you would find the hip
joint so a lot of times people say like
oh my hip you like like you know my hip
joint hurts and they'll say it's deep in
the joint I've had people say like oh
it's it's deep in the joint and they'll
be pointing here right this is not where
your hip joint is right your hip joints
like we're way up in there and then deep
in there so it's important to know the
anatomy here just so you have a clear
understanding of what actually hurts or
what may feel weak or wherever that is
you know if you say like oh you know my
my hip always hurts and you're pointing
like back here you know sense yeah this
is kind of the hips but what are we
looking at here really we're talking
about glutes
we're talking about glue max a lot of
times people saved Milo back hurts and
the point here and you're still saying
well that's still glue max right so it's
important to know your landmarks to know
your Anatomy around this whole area so
hips we also sometimes use sloppily when
we're just saying like that whole pelvis
region or like yeah glutes right guys
we'll say use your hips we want you to
use your butt muscles and your
hamstrings sometimes it's just easier
shorthand to say that's a good way to
generalize things but you're trying to
dive deeper into you know knowing what's
going on actually like where this point
on your on your body hurts then it's
probably more efficient know like an
that thing where your actual hip joint
is like what this muscle actually is
it's not all just your hips my hips so
yeah but it's a lot easier for us to in
shorthand just say use your hips right
we want you to we want your hip joints
to be the things that are articulating
while you're moving you know rather than
say your vertebral joints your
intervertebral joints we want the hip
joints to be moving which means the hip
muscles like your butt muscles
hamstrings are doing the work to help
you control the range of motion that
you're trying to accomplish so yeah
hopefully that clears up that topic
there is a lot of ambiguity around those
words so hopefully this makes things a
little bit more clear and I hope you
remember that pain sucks life's in it
if you liked the video don't forget to
like share and comment and don't forget
to subscribe
