Mobility with Anthony Masters

The goal of these mobility classes is to help make you stronger, move better, feel younger and stay injury free so that you can continue to see progress and enjoy the most out of your training.

Think of mobility as the active approach to developing flexibility, that goes to say this stuff is not as relaxing as your average yoga class, but it gets results.

Without going deep into the science side of things here are the 3 main objectives we aim to achieve.

1. Mobility Development – In a training sense mobility can be defined as STRENGTH + CONTROL in order to expand upon usable ranges of motion, articular resilience (i.e. load bearing capacity), and overall joint health.
2. Joint Strength– While improving mobility and movement potential, the approach of the class acts to ‘bulletproof’ or safeguard your joints so that movements can be executed efficiently and safely.
3. Body Control – Think of this as building the mind-body connection. We aim to improve the function of your nervous system. This can lead to a reduction of pain and injury, joint health and longevity, as well as an increased ability to move freely and easily.

The beginning phase of classes will be focused on the common physical demands of the classes and what most people need to work on in order to meet those demands. Basically shoulders, hips & spine.

Based on observation, research and most of my assessments these 3 most problematic areas in and out of the gym. But it so happens that CrossFit, WeightlIfting and Gymnastics go to town on these areas, so it makes sense to prioritise these areas first.

So here is an overview of the program for the next couple of weeks.

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Warm up

10-15mins: CARS (controlled articular rotations). This part prepares the joints for more challenging tasks to come. I will go into more detail about this routine in classes but we will be using this as a self-assessment tool to monitor areas that need addressing and track our progress based off of visual observation & feel.

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Lower body

20-25mins: This will focus on improving compound movements like the squat and deadlift, help address and reduce any niggles you may be feeling such as tight hips or knee and lower back issues.

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Upper body

20-25mins: This will focus on improving pressing/ pulling movements, especially those overhead positions many of us struggle to get into like the handstand, push press & snatch. Again this will also address a lot of the niggles people tend to experience somewhere around the shoulder, elbows and neck.

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Look forward to seeing you guys,

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Anthony M