Beyond Stretch is the kind of training that professional dancers and gymnasts use to improve their control and range motion. Based on FRC, Kinstretch, & MWOD, Beyond Stretch improves passive and active flexibility. Kinstretch helps strengthen your end range of motion and control. Beyond Stretch improves your balance and resistance to injury by targeting the muscles that your everyday activities cannot.
Paul breaks down the differences between mobility, flexibility, yoga, and stretching in careful detail. Without sufficient mobility you cannot be all that you wish to be. This applies whether your chosen craft is golf, strength training, CrossFit, or endurance running. You are not as efficient as a runner, you are more likely to get injured as a golfer, and will be slower in CrossFit. Here’s how to improve your mobility…
Mobility = POWER! If your body isn’t capable of getting in the right angles and positions, it will obstruct the natural trajectory of the barbell, which is STRAIGHT UP! In this article we will go through a set of stretching exercises that will improve your weightlifting. This set of stretching excercises is a “Swiss Army Knife” that every lifter should always have with them.
Scalenes? If you have pain caused by a crook in your neck, help may arrive from mobilizing your Scalenes. Learn how to test, stretch, and strengthen them.
Over 65 Online Fitness Classes per week in crystal clear audio and 4K high definition video. 22 Unique Virtual Classes you can do at home. Our featured online fitness classes: FireFlow, Beyond Stretch, Butts and Guts, and CoreFit TRX can be attended virtually or in-person. We also have in-person-only classes: Strong, CrossFit, Beginner CrossFit, and Recovery Clinic.
Sand & Steel Fitness is a certified CrossFit affiliate located in Old Town Alexandria, VA. We encourage stretching at any time during the day, but the most important time to … Read more
Over 65 Online Fitness Classes per week in crystal clear audio and 4K high definition video. 22 Unique Virtual Classes you can do at home. Our featured online fitness classes: FireFlow, Beyond Stretch, Butts and Guts, and CoreFit TRX can be attended virtually or in-person. We also have in-person-only classes: Strong, CrossFit, Beginner CrossFit, and Recovery Clinic.
Levator Scapulae. A small muscle that causes big neck and shoulder pain. Learn how to test function, treat the pain, and build strength and flexibility.
We offer Powerlifting Strength, CrossFit Conditioning, Beyond Stretch Mobility Classes, and Yoga Alignment Classes. We design our fitness classes so that they are safe for new members, but tough enough to challenge our long term members. Special attention is paid to fundamentals and quality of movement. Have a pre-existing injury? Just let your coach know. We can help you keep training, while you work on your recovery.
Mobility helps improve range of motion of tight joints and muscles, and it helps stabilize and strength areas that have too much range. This article demonstrates provides two example exercise routines for people needing additional range of motion in the hips, ankles, and thorasic spine. Plus you’ll find numerous linked articles at the bottom covering all topics associated with stretching, stabilization, yoga, and mobility.
Join Coach Max as he reviews the top six videos frozen shoulder exercises and stretches that can be performed at home. Plus get a sneak peak as we take you through our strategy of tracking down shoulder pain to see if frozen shoulder exercises will help. Finally, you can join Coach Paul as he provides you a live video on his favorite ten cable machine exercises for strengthening the shoulder.
Muscle Energy Techniques provides techniques for testing joint range and then increasing the range of motion through contract and release stretching with a therapist. In this short book, MET demonstrates how to test, strengthen, and lengthen some of the most important muscles in the human body. This review discusses some of the techniques provided, and provides additional detail on alternatives.
30 Day Beginner Workout Routine. Build a foundation of strength and conditioning with our 30 day plan. Includes a warmup, workout, and stretches. Excellent for beginners, but easily scaled to more advanced athletes.
Intermediate Yoga Flow Featuring Seated Postures Focusing on Lateral Chain and Hip Openers.
The Sand & Steel TEN. A complete Top 10 List of Essential Exercise Techniques that every personal trainer and yoga teacher should know.
