29 July 2010

Rest Day

We are going to be using some atlas stones, this is a mold that I found at slatershardware.com. When I get back in a week we will be making them. They recommend 3 weeks of letting it sit in the mold before throwing it around like a cromag.

Each joint or series of joints has a specific function and is prone to specific, predictable levels of dysfunction. As a result, each joint has specific training needs. The table below looks at the body on a joint-by-joint basis from the bottom up:

Joint Primary Training Needs:

Ankle mobility (mostly sagittal)
Knee stability
Hip mobility (multi-planar)
Lumbar Spine stability (by design)
T-Spine mobility ( by design)
Gleno-humeral stability

Today I want to describe a way to find out if you suffer from ankle mobility or ankle flexibility issues. Perform the overhead squat, if you have to either really struggle to keep the bar in the frontal plane or you can't and the bar falls forward(Tammy!), place a 10lb plate under your heels. If that solves the problem then you either have mobility or flexibility issues. To find out which one perform a calf stretch on top of a box. Do you feel a big stretch in the back or get stuck in the front? If you get stuck it's mobility, if you feel a stretch in the back it's flexibility. I am all f'd up, I have mobility issue in my right ankle and flexibility in my left.