You Are Going to Get Injured.

Yes, you will.

Sooner or later, the choices you make in the weight room will lead to injury.  A severe injury or something minor is in your future.

But you have a choice.

And you must make it immediately!  You must take action right now without hesitation!

Change your workout.  Change it NOW!

Because I know what you’ve been doing.

DO NOT MISS THIS POST

You haven’t been warming up.  You haven’t been doing full range of motion movements.  You haven’t been raising your core temperature before touching ANY weights.

This stops now!

I am here to make your workouts better and make you feel better.

What does training do to your body?

The SAID Principle and The Principle of Progressive Overload is based upon the foundation of tension.  The more tension, the more adaptation.  Good or bad.  You are constantly striving to create more tension and more time under tension (TUT).

Good adaptations include building muscle and strength (combination of increasing cross sectional area of the muscle fiber – sarcoplasmic hypertrophy AND an increase in the number of myosin/actin filaments (sarcomeres) inside the cell – myofibrillar hypertrophy ), improved neural efficiency, tendon / ligament density, greater work capacity, development of specific physiological qualities (dependent upon volume, load, speed, tempo, implement, application), and so on…

Bad adaptations include the consequences of the recovery from heavy and prolonged strength training.   Shortening of soft-tissues, adhesions and inhibition in movement is increased dependent upon % of tension (vs.  current capacity), restricted range of motion movements coupled with current mobility limitations.

What does this mean?

If you load up a ton of freaking weight, day in and day out, and only perform short range of motion movements, you’ll be walking like Frankenstein and get injured from tying your shoe and farting at the same time.

Solution?  Comprehensive, systematic, consistent application of a thorough, complete and all-encompassing warm-up and mobility drills prior to and after your strength training sessions.

Think I’m lying?  Think I don’t know what I’m talking about?  Think you don’t have time?

Bullshit.

I have been applying these techniques this year with not only myself, but all of my athletes.  We’ve gotten stronger and my chronic injuries and limitations have gone away.

Now, if your goal is to lift heavy, lift often and lift hard for a few years, then screw it – who needs mobility work.  But if you want to lift for a lifetime, then you better start doing these movements.

NOW.

You don’t want to be like this dude.

Essential Hip Mobility Movements

I just posted a new video of some really good hip mobility movements.  These will get your heart pumping, open up your hips, improve your flexibility and get you moving again quick.

But you have to do them on a consistent basis.  I’m not just talking about before lower body day, I’m talking about all the time.

Remember the previous post I put up about hip mobility and knee rehab?  It showed how to open up the hips and activate the glutes.  How about the lower back rehab post?  With each post we are learning more and more and building more comprehensive workouts.

Right now we are concentrating on hip mobility.

Hip Mobility Exercises in the Video

Glute Stretch into Cossack
Wall Squats
Hip Flexor Stretch (Back Leg Elevated)
Hip Flexor / Quad Stretch
Hip Flexor Stretch and Reach
Bulgarian Split Squats
Striders into Rotational Lunges
Striders into Seated Glute Stretch
Fire Hydrants
Downward Dog into Quad Squat
Cobra into Dynamic Plough
Dynamic Adductors – Level 1 (Narrow)
Dynamic Adductors – Level 2 (Wide)
Dynamic Adductors – Level 3 (Horizontal Squat)

The Essential Hip

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