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  • Dips + Shoulder Mobility | More Pecs when Pressing | Shoulder Flexibility and Punching Power [ASK ERIC]

    Dips + Shoulder Mobility | More Pecs when Pressing | Shoulder Flexibility and Punching Power [ASK ERIC]

    I’ve been reading through the 1200+ responses to the Shoulder Flexibility Survey I sent out and I’ve come across some great questions that I figured I’d answer in today’s QnA video, such as:

    Does shoulder tightness affect punching power? [01:04]

    Do exercises like Dips adversely affect shoulder mobility?  I seem to have problems with shoulder pain and headaches after doing them.  Thanks! [02:56]

    How can you limit the involvement of the shoulders in chest presses? [05:42]

    No names since the survey was anonymous. 😉

    Tons of actionable info in today’s video so make sure you check it out if you want healthy and balanced shoulders.

    Eric

    If you’ve got a question about training for MMA or martial arts, nutrition, injuries or anything else that you’d like me to answer in a future QnA video, submit it here.

  • Sitting is the New Smoking

    Sitting is the New Smoking

    After a few hours in a row of sitting, do you feel really stiff and does it take a while for you to get moving and not feel like an old grandpa again?

    Unfortunately, if you’re like me and you sit too much (damn computers), I bet you feel it in the one place we need mobility the – your HIPS.

    When you sit, you do 2 absolutely horrible things for your mobility:
    1) Shorten and tighten your hip flexors
    2) Shut off and weaken your glutes

    While these are 2 of the worst issues that arise from excessive sitting, there are many more, which has resulted in our medical authorities to claim that…

    “Sitting is the new smoking!”

    Now, let’s not even talk about all of the athletic feats we could perform with loose, oily hips…

    … since being tight from sitting too much WILL lead to things like low back pain, poor posture and the resulting shoulder and neck issues, so you’ll never get the chance to perform at your potential.

    I’ve recently started doing a simple lunge combo every 30 minutes (I set a timer to remind me) that takes me 2 minutes to do that’s totally prevented that initial stiffness you get after sitting for too long.

    You can do it at the office or wherever you find yourself sitting to help prevent that initial stiffness. I’ll shoot that video for you and send it to you in a day or 2.

    Until then, if you sit a lot, you should check out this presentation on all the negative effects of sitting AND a comprehensive approach to battling them.

    Just like smoking, your body WILL breakdown from too much sitting.
    It’s just a matter of time.

    But because it happens gradually over years, you may not catch it until it’s too late.

    Stay loose my friend.

  • 3 Stretches to Combat Modern Society

    Today’s society is taking a MASSIVE toll on our bodies…

    Many of us park our butts in an office chair for 8 hours a day mulling over spreadsheets or plugging away inside Outlook…

    Others are road warriors who spend a couple of hours traversing the land in the modern-day horse and buggy called the car.

    Not to mention our hobbies, one of which, if you’re reading this blog, is likely mixed martial arts training, with its guard, clinch, single and double leg takedown attempts, chin-tucked fighting stances, shoulders rounded forward like a turtle’s shell, abs constantly on to make the body as small a target as possible.

     

    I know it's not MMA, but it's a perfect example of what I'm sayin'…

    Our bodies, which are almost a thing of perfection – the strength, power, athleticism, quickness and grace with which we move in the upright position and with good posture is something truly amazing – are regressing and de-volving to the point that Darwin would be afraid for our species’ (modern man) survival.

    Well that’s about to change…

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