I've posted about mobility before, and I do a little mobility work now and then. However, I've never really taken my own advice and dedicated time to rectifying my mobility issues - at least not with any consistency. Perhaps it's time to change that!
Thanks to Chris at the excellent Conditioning Research blog, I happened upon Kelly Starrett's Mobility Workout of the Day. A Doctor of Physical Therapy, and founder of CrossFit SanFrancisco, he's got a great deal of experience in maximizing physical performance.
Anyway, on to the point. In the fashion of CrossFit's Greg Glassman, Kelly offers a daily mobility workout (usually about 5-15 minutes) which addresses different aspects of shoulder, hip, knee, ankle, and spinal mobility. I think it's a great resource, and tonight, I'm going to begin with his first "workout," from August of last year, and work through all of them. I've always had dismal ankle, hip, and shoulder mobility, and I think this program may be great for me, especially since I'm only training 1-2 times per week (aside from a little Grease the Groove skill work on the Hand Stand and Muscle Up).
If you're at all like me, and have a poor level of discipline for sticking with a mobility/stretching regimen, then this might be for you. A no-brainer, easy to perform mobility exercise every day.
Here's the first one, which I'm doing tonight. It focuses on spending time in a deep, unload squat. I don't do much loaded bilateral squatting, but I think bodyweight only squatting is an absolutely vital movement, and one I don't do enough of. Pavel Tsatsouline does a great job of explaining why in his video seminar: Beyond Stretching.
Here goes nothing.
Thanks to Chris at the excellent Conditioning Research blog, I happened upon Kelly Starrett's Mobility Workout of the Day. A Doctor of Physical Therapy, and founder of CrossFit SanFrancisco, he's got a great deal of experience in maximizing physical performance.
Anyway, on to the point. In the fashion of CrossFit's Greg Glassman, Kelly offers a daily mobility workout (usually about 5-15 minutes) which addresses different aspects of shoulder, hip, knee, ankle, and spinal mobility. I think it's a great resource, and tonight, I'm going to begin with his first "workout," from August of last year, and work through all of them. I've always had dismal ankle, hip, and shoulder mobility, and I think this program may be great for me, especially since I'm only training 1-2 times per week (aside from a little Grease the Groove skill work on the Hand Stand and Muscle Up).
If you're at all like me, and have a poor level of discipline for sticking with a mobility/stretching regimen, then this might be for you. A no-brainer, easy to perform mobility exercise every day.
Here's the first one, which I'm doing tonight. It focuses on spending time in a deep, unload squat. I don't do much loaded bilateral squatting, but I think bodyweight only squatting is an absolutely vital movement, and one I don't do enough of. Pavel Tsatsouline does a great job of explaining why in his video seminar: Beyond Stretching.
Here goes nothing.
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