🤯 The Brain Hack That Makes Cartwheels Click

"Brainy What-Why-How"

Your weekly nibble of brain-based tips to help you move and feel great!

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What:

If your cartwheel feels more like a confused tumble than a fierce flip, your body’s not the issue—your brain is.

Enter: neural chunking.

It’s a fancy little brain hack that makes cartwheels click. 

And yes, I break it all down in my  ​YouTube video: The Complete Cartwheel Workshop​—

from “which leg goes where?” 

to advanced variations that’ll have your inner child (and adult bod) doing handstands you didn't know were possible. 

Why:

Your brain is, like, obsessed with patterns 💁 🧠 

It loves to group messy movements into cute, clean little chunks. Like:

✅ These parts go together

✅ This is one unit

✅ This is safe, repeatable, and I'm ready for more

So instead of screaming, “WHAT DO I DO WITH MY LEGS??” your nervous system just gets it. 

Flow unlocked 🤙 

How:

Chunk skills into "mini skills". For example, the cartwheel:

  1. The Launch – Hands say hello to the floor (something the vestibular system needs to aid with too!) 

  2. The Inversion – Legs fly high, shoulders stay strong (why we're working on the hips so much this month)

  3. The Landing – Feet down, chest up like a superhero 🦸 

Now repeat after me:

🔁 Practice each chunk solo.

🔁 Then blend them together like your favourite smoothie

🔁 Visualise the chunks as one smooth ride

And just like that, your brain glues it all together into one confident cartwheel unit. 

No more guessing. Just flow.

Real talk:

You can sweat through a thousand ugly reps… 

or you can train smarter.

That’s exactly how I build classes in Move With Adell:

Mini-skills, chunked out and slipped into su-weet yoga flows—so your nervous system learns while you breathe, move, and vibe.

Ready to chunk up and glow up?

Watch the ​cartwheel workshop on YouTube now​

And come move with me. 

Your brain (and your body) will thank you.

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Adell

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