Posts Tagged ‘t spine mobility’
Improve your Mobility with “The World’s Greatest Stretch”!
If you take a quick poll of your average jane or joe that gets their sweat on at your local gym, and you were to ask them if they’ve heard of the World’s Greatest Stretch as a warm up before they got their main workout in, chances are you’ll hear crickets. Their warm up would…
Read MoreStiff Spine? Try These on For Size! (Part IV)
Hey all, I wanted to you today starting where we left off with our series on loosening up your stiff spine. If you missed out, here are the last 3 parts: PART I PART II PART III In Part I and Part II, we talked about Type I and Type II arm driver progressions, respectively, and…
Read MoreStiff Spine? Try these on for size! (Part II)
Welcome back for Part II of our series on some steps you can take to loosen up your stiff spine. So, last time we covered Type I motion for your stiff spine, and if you missed out on it, you can check it out here. So you saw Type I motion yesterday. This is characterized by rotation…
Read MoreStiff Spine? Try these on for size!
Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend and a good day today. I wanted to start a new series on ways you can loosen up your stiff spine, which will get your body primed for a solid workout. These are some of the movement progressions I learned during my time working through…
Read More5 Reasons We Don’t Squat (Part 2)
Hey all, getting right to it today. In the last installment, I talked about reasons why people have an aversion to squatting; knee and back pain, laziness, or a hurt ego being the main culprits. In today’s blog post, I’m going to talk about a couple of the techniques I use to allow for a more…
Read MoreWhy don’t we Squat?
Today’s post is going to come from the greatest exercise known to man, the squat. No other exercise has ever been as effective at targeting so many different aspects of awesome than the squat (when performed properly): ankle, hip, and thoracic spine mobility, core stability, leg strength, and a big contributor toward reducing overall body fat. Ask any coach…
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