Today’s WODdocket: 15 elbow mobs pronated (palm on floor) / elbow 15 elbow mobs supinated (palm up) / elbow
Take 2 coming at you of Dr. Scott’s forgotten forearm muscle. This is a re-do of episode 370 without the atrocious sound interference. The highlighted tissue above is called the flexor carpi ulnaris. Its job is to flex and bend the wrist toward the pinky. Not surprising it gets overused in the functional fitness world […]
Guys had a little malfunction with the speaker… going to have to reshoot this episode this week … its been awhile since I mess one up… guess I was due… dammit !!! Today’s WODdocket: Go stand on your head for 5 mins …
We recently visited the concept of mobility flossing. If you missed the gist here it is again. What are we actually donning with the flossing band? By wrapping the band around the extremity/joint we are compressing the soft tissues against the hard bones (essential just how we do it when we are pin and stretch […]
Elbows are complexed. They are one of the few places in the body where 3 bones interplay with one another. It is a stable but mobile joint. In order for our hand to turn palm up and palm down (supination/pronation) there has to be this element of rotation at the elbow. This happens via the […]
Couple days ago we discussed causes and treatment stratagies for medial elbow pain. It only makes since that we would have to discuss lateral (outside) elbow pain as well. … I mean what the heck, we have an inside and outside to the elbow right. Warning rocket science alert!! We treat the lateral elbow the […]
Today we are attempting to improve your jerk rack position. It is ideal to have a platform with high elbows when jerking. Note above Dmitry Klokov. He actually has a rather low-elbow jerk position but two things common in all great jerk racks need to be pointed out. He creates a nice platform high on his […]