mobility video "improving split jerk"

Today's Mwod is all bout the Split Jerk.

One of the props we like to use a lot is some kind of elevated surface, like a table or jump box.

The stretching with one leg up on an elevated surface has the unique ability to keep the other leg on the ground, and by extension your back in neutral. I'm always amazed when I see otherwise enlightened athletes horking on their backs to mobilize some other body part. Not cool.

Keep your back in neutral, especially in mobs that potentially bias the athlete into overextension.

Remember the couch stretch? Yep, the other knee was up to protect the back. The psoas bias hip extension pole dancer stretch? Same. Well, meet the box/back of the couch/kitchen table etc.

Test: Split jerk landing. Torso straight up and down stacked neatly under an anchored ribcage?

Mob: 1) Spend 3 minutes exploring each hip. Can you hold relax there? Use that PNF!

2) 4 min working on arm flexion (overhead) and thoracic (rib cage region of spine)

extension on the balls.