![]() The next time you’re outside the gym and you squat, take a look at your heels. Kelly’s clients include professional athletes in the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB. Hip Flexor Stretch: Stretches the hip flexor and quadriceps muscle. Repeat 2-3 repetitions of 10 second holds for your active strengthening of the hip flexors. Try to hold the leg up solely with the strength of your hip flexor. Kelly received his Doctor of Physical Therapy in 2007 from Samuel Merritt College in Oakland, California. Create tension in your body and let go of your leg. the position you put your body in below parallel should not change. The Ready State began as MobilityWOD in 2008 and has gone on to revolutionize the field of performance therapy and self-care. ![]() ![]() Whether your squatting with a bar on your shoulders, a bar over your head, squatting to pick something up from the ground, or crouching down to grab something on the bottom shelf at the grocery store. Mobilitywod has some great banded distraction positions. This is important because your brain plays a role in tight muscles. Romwod helps with teaching you how to turn your brain off when in various positions. The truth of the matter is, we should squat the same no matter where we are squatting. Mobilitywod uses joint distraction and massage therapy. It un-trains our ankle and our heel cords from being shortened. Maybe we should all wear sandals? All joking aside, this is why there are strong arguments supporting the minimalist barefoot shoe. So how do men end up with shortened heel cords (calf muscle)? Now this is a fine argument that can explain why our heels come off the ground in the squat if we wore high heeled shoes everyday, but what about the men? Not being sexist, but the reality is women wear more high heeled shoes than men. ![]() Weird how her heels are in the same position as his? Hmm. Bad habits huh? Well, maybe we can blame it on our shoe wear?: Create tension in your body and let go of your leg. ![]()
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