MOBILITY OF THE MONTH

We are excited to introduce a new monthly blog feature that focuses on MOBILITY. Each month we will be posting several specific exercises and instructional videos to help you improve flexibility and range of motion for a particular body part or movement. We’ll also add new exercises and videos mid-month to give you more options! We’ll keep this post pinned to the top of our WOD/NEWS page.

FRONT RACK POSITION

The FRONT RACK is the beginning and end position for many familiar movements: front squat, thruster, clean and any shoulder to overhead. You might hear a coach cue you to “get your elbows up” to improve this position and keep your core engaged and torso more upright. But for some, getting your elbows up and/or resting the bar on the front of your shoulders (i.e. deltoids), is impossible!

Tight, stiff or previously injured muscles, ligaments and tendons in […]