Tag: healthy living
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The Biggest Value of Fitness You’ll Never Hear About
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…
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Mobility and Jiu Jitsu (Self-defense and sport)
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…
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Fitness for Self-Defense Jiu Jitsu
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…
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You Cannot Change Your Body
We get so caught up in “upgrading” our stuff that we forget a very simple but eye opening fact: we can’t replace our body. We can change our country of residence. We can change our partners or our careers but we cannot change out our body for another. Our body is the one thing we…
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Fitness to Compliment Your Life
Coach Victor and I (Coach Caroline) at Concentric Fit are not bodybuilders or professional fitness competitors. We consider ourselves athletes but we see fitness as a tool to enhance and increase our longevity and durability for our other athletic pursuits. Coach Victor used his athleticism and recovery to compliment his years of martial arts training…