Build Better Mobility & Stability While Getting More Fit!

Creating good fitness programs can be overwhelming for even a good fitness professional to create. That is because there are so many elements that coaches try to figure out how to get into their program. The real issue is they see these concepts individually, rather how they can be integrated together to produce better exercises and workout programs. Fitting in mobility, stability, strength, and conditioning don’t have to be, nor really should they be, done all individually.

Today we wanted to show some ways that we use our concepts from DVRT, PKM and our MIM systems (whoa that’s a lot of acronyms) to create more comprehensive workout programs that help with mobility and stability, but also make you stronger and in better shape. Which one you choose to use has a lot to do with how advanced and comfortable you are in our training systems. So, if a lot of this is new, slow down, start with each individual exercise (before you move into some of our flows) and take your time to really understand how we are using our body and the tools in these series.

All these drills are based on research of using diagonal patterns, meditative movement, integrated exercises, breath work, and core stability. The research in all these areas shows how such techniques can lower pain perception, help restore mobility faster, build greater mobility, and have greater transfer to both functional strength and conditioning. Let’s get to it!

We can use tools like our Ultimate Sandbags and Mobility Balls to get more mobility and stability from drills like the shinbox. This position is typically used to increase hip mobility, but most people can’t go to the ground without major discomfort and pain. Working from the top position down and using a variety of strategies to increase core stability (which results in greater shoulder and hip mobility) we can use these either as progressions, identifying which version works for an individual, or a progressive series to go from easiest to most difficult to increase the mobility we can build.

Ultimate Sandbags give more feedback to the body and often can help those that are struggling with more core stability issues where the Mobility Balls take us to more complex patterns and reflexive stability that can be seen as a potential progression.

Larisa Lotz shows a series of a variety of drills that we use in DVRT and MIM to connect the whole body, when we build better connection we get better mobility, stability, and strength. You can use a great majority of these in a workout, warm-up, or select the ones that are relevant to your needs.

Our Myofascial Integrated Movement drills like this complex allows us to work on breath work, nervous system regulation, myofascial release, multi-planar stability, and more to develop better movement as we work on building our functional movement capabilities. While these may not look difficult from a conditioning perspective, when you perform 3-5 repetitions per side at the speed I show and with the right intent, these become quite intense!

Coach Cory Cripe shows how we progress to more advanced functional strength and movement drills that show the capability of putting all these great training qualities together into a workout. The key though is that we don’t have to choose between stability, mobility, strength, and conditioning, we can learn ways to achieve the goals at each which makes our training more effective and efficient. This ultimately makes training more accessible for people with busy lives and have to be focused about their energy!

This week you can get a great opportunity to learn about meditative movement and other solutions for building healthy shoulders, knees, and even low backs. Save 25% all throughout DVRT and when you invest in any of our Ultimate Sandbag/Water Bags and get 2 of our top corrective exercise programs for FREE! Just use code “shoulder” HERE. Don’t miss our Mobility Balls HERE too!

 

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