Mobility Monday : Ankles
Ankles!What better place to start with mobility than the oft forgotten but foundational joint, our ankles. This week's video is courtesy of Kelly Starret, coach, physical therapist & creator of the Mobility WOD.
"MobilityWOD is the ultimate guide to resolving pain, preventing injury, and optimizing athletic performance. Humans have been evolving for 2.5 million years and the human body is extraordinarily engineered. While people are born with this incredible machine, they aren’t born with the right software to run that machine.
The MobilityWOD is designed to help you hack your body’s mechanics and provide the tools to perform basic maintenance on yourself."
Via MobilityWOD|About
Mobility drills should be part of your daily warmup & rest days are a great chance to pick a few 'sticky' joints and do some more aggressive 'mobbing'. We'll post more mobility videos here but if you have issues with poor range of motion in your shoulders, hips, lumbar, ankles, whatever!, go check out his site, do a little googling, get a good book and take an active approach to fixing yourself!
Sunday morning teamwork!
The Power Athlete Diet™
[typography font="Cantarell" size="18" size_format="px"]"You can't out-train a shitty diet."[/typography]
You read it on the whiteboard every day but what does that mean to you? There is a vast amount of nutritional resources in print or the web (including those at the footer of our home page ) that I encourage you to read up on. Nobody is the same & finding what works best for you takes some time and patience. BUT if you want the CliffsNotes version, check out what John Welbourn has to say on the matter on his blog, "Just Tell Me What to Eat".
"Talk To Me Johnnie – After reading the information on fats and ketogenic diets, I am confused. Can you just tell me what to eat?
It seems that I needed some counseling, so I did what any intelligent individual would do, I contacted Chuck Norris for his views on nutrition and the Power Athlete Diet ™. I asked for an accurate prescription for what I should be eating. Chuck responded and delivered the information via a mechanical winged messenger given as a gift by the Gods of Olympus."
Of course, Chuck always delivers and the post covers what you can eat, what you should limit and outright avoid. Maybe a good starting point for you?