This is a general strength and conditioning program for gym or at-home gym use that we actually use with our own clients in our facility. By taking a look at our blog, you can see we have a unique take on fitness. The main focus of our work is longevity and feeling well. We’re all about breaking limitations set by our bodies. For this to happen we emphasize a lot in movement mechanics, mobility/stability, strength, endurance, and power.
We hope you enjoy it and we look forward to watching you surpass your limits!
There is a benefit to fitness that is so incredibly valuable and yet you’ll never hear about it. Why is the greatest benefit of fitness not one of its major selling points?
Because it isn’t sexy.
This benefit won’t show up in an ad with glistening muscular bodies. It’s not about making your high school friends jealous at your 10 year reunion. And it won’t manifest instantaneously like the deceptive ads for “fit teas” or “30 days to beach body” programs falsely advertise. It can’t be accomplished by a six week challenge.
No. The greatest gem of fitness requires some self-awareness and using our imagination. So let’s try together because with this understanding of the true value of fitness, you can drastically improve your life. Your whole life.
Let’s imagine the two paths your life can take as you get older: staying active and in healthy physical shape compared to not doing any physical activity at all. This doesn’t mean being a fitness model, this means having a regular routine of physical exercise that you enjoy. Sport. Individual. Gym. Outdoor. Doesn’t matter. Now, imagine the trajectory of experiences with health that are or are not likely to arise because each of these choices. And then imagine what you will be able to or limited from enjoying, doing, trying, and engaging in during your whole life because of that choice.
So here is the secret fitness value your will never hear about:
Being consistently physically active helps you to get older better.
It decreases your risk of disease (like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, cancer)
It decreases your risk of injury and improves joint and bone durability
It improves emotional and mental well-being (including reducing the big three: stress, anxiety, and depression)
It improves your overall immune system
It decreases the limitations in your life
Connects you with health-minded people and communities
All these benefits and more can be yours but see? It’s not very sexy. Although, for us lucky ones, living a long life is a reality we will have to deal with. We can make this reality more or less enjoyable for ourselves. Fitness is like an investment into a positive life experience and if you make a consistent investment, the benefits continue to grow over time.
Investing in your fitness today is like putting money in your health bank. Are you ready to invest in yourself today?
Jiu Jitsu can be thought of as a game of chess with bodies. The game is played stringing movements together to advance your position while also neutralizing your opponent’s moves.
You don’t need be flexible, strong, or the most athletic person in order to do it but having the ability to control your own body can make your learning process easier. Here is a movement that can help with your strength, mobility, flexibility and coordination for jiu jitsu and for life.
This one is called 90/90 (similar to the yoga pose Pigeon). With modern lifestyle creating stiff hips and limited mobility, this movement can help prepare the body for the S-mount or armbar set up. You can do a static stretch or add a flow like we did here in the video above ☝🏼 ( personally I like to add a motion so this way you’re not only working the muscle but also the joints).
To not give away any extra space in jiu jitsu, a good mobility of the hips and hamstrings will allow us to sit in the proper position and set up the armbar submission, in this example, with better technique and therefore require less strength. Give it a try and see if you notice any difference in your “S” Mount.
Doing some glute bridges can help you with foundational jiu jitsu movements like the upa escape from being mounted demonstrated in the second video.
We’re not saying that just because you bang out a few reps of glute bridges now you know how to escape from being mounted. It is important to cultivate our technique and not be dependent on our STRENGTH. This is the emphasis of jiu jitsu, which translates to “the gentle art” But having strong hips and hamstrings (which are the primary muscles used in the glute bridge exercise) can assist you in performing this technique easier and a large majority of athletic movements that use the power from the hips.
This movement helps with those booty gains which, as mentioned above, are the powerhouse muscle group for most athletics movements. This shows how including the right fitness program can complement the technical needs of any sport or just basic self-defense and feeling safe in the world.
🥋 Are you looking for a productive physical activity that will make your child feel bully-proof? We are giving away a few FREE WEEK PASSES for our kids Jiu Jitsu program only to local families. This is perfect for the start of the school year.
🥋 At our family gym, we instill traditional martial arts values like respect, self-mastery, and teamwork all while having fun and learning basic self-defense moves that are effective at all ages and strength-levels. Jiu Jitsu is one of the MOST effective self-defense systems in the world!
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