Full Spinal Follow Along
Samantha Faulhaber
Perhaps
Tasha Louie Perhaps you don’t lack mobility. Perhaps you aren’t weak. Perhaps, there’s nothing wrong with you or how you move. Perhaps, you haven’t trained, used, or practiced your mobility/strength/coordination like you did when you were younger. Perhaps, you’ve out trained, used, or practiced other aspects of your physical ability than your mobility/strength/coordination as […]
Butter Back (part 1)
Jeremy Fein Why Butterback? You need to move your back in so many ways, whether in athletic movement like throwing and kicking or daily activities like tying your shoes. But it’s easy to feel stiff throughout the torso. And many [totally great!] traditional strength exercises have us moving the arms and legs alot, but […]
Playing with Capacity
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Jean Claude (Enhanced)
Tasha Louie [Taken from this instagram post, the astonishing thing was the many comments about the jeans…]
You Decide What’s Optimal
Tasha Louie View this post on Instagram A post shared by T A S H A (@tasha.louie) View this post on Instagram A post shared by T A S H A (@tasha.louie) In case you missed this in the comments of post #2:
Passive to Active Tissue Lengthening
Brian Fox [Description below.] Affect connective tissue architecture by training at length for 2+ minutes. Intent: Passively acquire length then actively try to maintain that length and internally load the bioflow. Straining the connective tissue at length. A two minute stretch specifically intended for the anterior knee and thigh in hip extension and […]
How to Fix Constantly Tight Hamstrings
Tom Morrison Listen here, Susan! (I don’t know your name so I will call you Susan for this blog.) You’re blaming your hamstrings for everything, when they’re probably the thing trying to hold your body together – and the stuff you keep doing to them won’t help because it’s not what they actually need! […]
Cross-Contextual Spine Training
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Where I Went Wrong
Tom Morrison The non-negotiables from the “Where I Went Wrong” ebook Take these in and implement them and you will run into a lot less problems in training, and life: 1. Move your neck every which way every day! Look left, look right, look up, look down, look side to side and every […]
Standing Straddle
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Cold Splits Challenge
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Sockets, Torsion, & Squat Depth
Tom Morrison There’s a serious amount of confusion in the exercise world over what a squat should look like, what’s the most beneficial depth, or the most effective stance. People who’ve “figured it out” argue that it’s their way or the highway, then other people saying that everyone’s squat will be different based on their hip […]
Mobility Instruction
Nicki Miller A snippet and a class. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nicki Miller (@nickimillergram) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nicki Miller (@nickimillergram)
Is Sitting Too Much Really Ruining Your Mobility?
Tom Morrison Your back hurts, your hip hurts, your shoulders and neck are always sore from being slumped over your desk or behind the wheel all the time – damn daily life tasks! They’re ruining your flexibility and movement forever, right!? Well, wrong. It’s a bit of a cop out really if I’m […]
Usefulness of Expression
Brandon Chien View this post on Instagram ⠀ The task I gave myself here was “slow is smooth, smooth is fast.” Was I building my fitness or expressing my movement? ⠀ Building fitness used to mean doing squats, presses, heavy lifting, and hard training. ⠀ Now it means something different. Learning rhythm, […]
Hip! Hip! (An Overview)
Jenn Pilotti The hips. Peaches. The area where your femur, the longest bone in your body, rests neatly into a concave structure that looks like a cup and is actually the meeting place of the three bones that make up one half of your pelvis. (Fun fact: your pelvis is made up of two […]
A Pliable Low Back
Brandon Chien View this post on Instagram Do you strength train? Then you might also notice a little fear of getting injured and not being able to function in your daily life. I sure had them when I started barbell training, and had to learn the hard way searching for solutions. ⠀ […]
Movement, Mobility, & Capoeira
Jason Round Contributor Jason Round offers his capoeira teacher some insights into movement and mobility: Mestre Boca Rica, the capoeira teacher, [adorably] in action: Do we not all stand to learn something from and offer perspective to one another?
Rebuilding After/ Before Olympic Lifts
Brandon Chien The ‘whats’ and ‘whys’ between Olympic Lifting cycles: