Improving Flexibility With a Sunday Morning “Freestyle”
Today I wanna talk about recovery, improving flexibility, and becoming more resilient. I’ll also address how much time you should be spending here.While following a strategic approach to improving flexibility and boosting recovery is important… I also feel there are days when you should move and see where YOUR body wants to go for the […]
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R.A.M: Recovery Accelerating Mechanism
So many men (and women) I speak with on a daily basis for whatever reason — avoid recovery, mobility, and flexibility like the plague.Either because they don’t “have the time” to get it in or they fear doing it wrong and making things worse so…… they leave it out all together.Until they tweak their back, […]
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7 Super-Simple Strength Standards – Part 1
The other day I was talking with Jake and Patricia and some how we got on the topic of “strength standards”. As in… What is the bare minimum you should be able to do? It got me thinking and I thought I’d throw a quick checklist together for you of some “stuff” I think is pretty important and […]
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Better Mobility for BJJ
After 12 weeks of inactivity–I have some “disconnection” in my abdominals (nerves are still regenerating) along with some thoracic and hip stiffness. So I thought I’d share with you my exact process of restoring my mobility for BJJ and getting back to the iron. As I write this, I’m currently wrapping up week 3 of my […]
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Beyond The Dead Bug–How To Regain Lost Hip Mobility
In Jiu-Jitsu and kettlebells hips are everything! The more hip mobility you have, the more capable you’ll be of maximizing your strength potential and not only that — it also forges a more resilient body to resist submissions and potential injury (which I’ll get into at the end of this post). In my 20 years […]
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