Nancy back squats. You'll be back squatting today. Enjoy:-) Welcome back Mobility Monday! Today is the perfect day to get started on a daily mobility routine. Let's face it. No one likes "stretching," and none of us do it enough. However, one of our CrossFit goals is to regain our full range of motion and increase our flexibility. Being flexible and have full range of motion of your joints and muscles is as equally important as strength, power, speed, endurance and stamina. Just like with everything we do in CrossFit, increasing flexibility and range of motion requires regular training. The good news is that we train our flexibility and mobility every day in class. More good news is that you can easily train your flexibility and mobility at home. Do you sit on the couch at home? Do couch stretch! Today you will do a short circuit of mobility and flexibility exercises to prepare you for our squat workout. Once you've completed your squats, you are going to do a small gymnastics circuit. Enjoy!
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Laurie gets ready to do a feat of strength. #festivuswod Our Mobility Monday video will help you relieve tension today and anytime you feel the stress of the holidays creeping up on you. A wall and a few minutes are all you need to take a break from the stress of going here and there and of doing this and that. Managing stress is, probably, the most important healthy lifestyle practice. Managing stress can take many forms, e.g. exercise, mobility, meditation, sleep, temperance with relation to alcohol and sugar, time with friends, reading a good book, watching a favorite movie. Stress management sounds so easy, but it so very difficult to do. One of the best aspects of the Whole Life Challenge is that it provides you with 6 weeks to practice different stress management techniques. You get to try on different tactics to see which ones fit you the best. Our New Year WLC starts Jan 20, I hope you join us. I look forward to seeing which healthy lifestyle practices suit you best. Click on the link below to start your journey to a less stressful life. One of my favorite stress management techniques is to have fun and be silly. The Festivus for the Rest of Us is my kind of silliness. The folks who organize the Festivus Games (which we are hosting again in April) have released a special Festivus Holiday WOD. We'll do this special workout this Friday. In the meantime the Festivus Games folks are asking all of us to have some Festivus fun by posting on IG and Facebook the 5 elements of Festivus: Festivus Pole, Festivus Dinner, Airing of Grievances, Feats of Strength, and Festivus Miracles. Please use the hashtag #festivuswod. Be ready to have some Festivus fun in class this week. THE FESTIVUS FOR THE REST OF US! Let's introduce our first of the five Festivus Elements: The Festivus Pole. YES! We have a Festivus Pole at the our gym. Be sure to get your photo with it today! Are you ready to join our team for the Whole Life Challenge? Click on the image below to sign up.
Annie gets fierce! Today's Mobility Monday video will help you get your shoulders all juicy and ready to do some work! Shoulder pain and discomfort is a common complaint of new and experienced CrossFitters. We spend much of our day with our hands low and arms below our shoulders. Then at the gym we raise our arms to pull, push and throw. This overhead movement can take its toll. Overhead movement is functional movement. You need to be able to raise your arms to reach something above your head, load things on top of your car, prevent something from falling on top of you and many other scenarios. If you are uncomfortable raising your arms over your head, you need to work on your mobility. Your shoulder has a very wide range of motion and we want to regain the functionality of it by restoring your natural range of motion. Spend some time today doing the mobility exercises in the MWod video. You might be surprised at how much you can increase your range of motion. Good luck! Jeremy getting great extension in the clean! His arms are bending after he jumps. WOW! How did you like Honor Week? Wasn't that an incredible week of amazing workouts? Hopefully you're well rested for today. It's another long workout. We will have a smaller volume of work the rest of the week. Don't Worry. I'm not trying to kill you, just make you stronger:-) You might need a bit of extra mobility this week. Try to get here for Goals and Goats so you can spend some extra time working out the issues in your tissues. Please remember to bring your non-perishable food donation this week. It's an easy Bingo square and it will help us Can the Griz. Workout of the Day |
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