Rough day at the office for Mei on Sunday. This past weekend’s LigaBJJ tournament presented her with the toughest competition she’s faced. She didn’t shy away from the challenge and she competed hard. Proud dad💜
WAKE UP! More range of motion is not always better!
That’s how people end up with hyperflaccidity, unstable joints, and eventually pain.
If you can’t control your ROM you have what @functionalpatterns practitioners call fake mobility. Just because you CAN take your joints through a wide ROM doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Optimal ROM is found by training in accordance with the FP First 4: standing, walking, running, and throwing.
Stop chasing range. Build control over your movements.
If you’d like a free gait cycle analysis comment “MOBILITY” or DM me!
#functionalpatterns #fakemobility
Most athletes are training their strengths and ignoring their weak links.
You’ll lift heavier, move faster, and push harder but the areas that actually limit your performance stay the same.
That’s why progress stalls.
The body doesn’t break down at its strongest point, it breaks down at its weakest one. If you’re not addressing that, you’re just building on top of dysfunction.
At some point, it shows up as slower times, less power, or an injury that “came out of nowhere.”
We focus on cleaning up those weak links so the whole system works together, not just parts of it.
That’s why I’ve build my Unlimited Virtual Group Class Membership. The best athletes want to be exposed - my workouts will expose you.
Link in bio.
#functionalpatterns #sports #athlete #workout
Chronic pain doesn’t just show up for no reason.
Most of the time it’s the result of how you’re moving every day. If your structure is off, force gets dumped into the same joints over and over until something starts to hurt.
Stretching it, icing it, or avoiding movement might give temporary relief, but it doesn’t fix the problem.
You have to change how your body is organized so pressure is distributed properly and movement becomes efficient again.
That’s exactly what we focus on in the corrective classes inside my group class membership. We actually address the root so you’re not just managing your pain, you’re finding long term solutions for it.
#functionalpatterns #chronicpain
Most people think they need more mobility.
In reality, they already have too much in the wrong places.
Stretching the way it’s usually done just feeds that problem. It targets the areas that are already loose and makes them even more unstable, while the areas that are actually stiff stay locked up.
That’s how you end up with hypermobility, joint instability, and eventually pain.
The goal isn’t more range, it’s the right range.
At FP we focus on organizing the body through the FP First 4 so you create stability where you need it and mobility where you don’t have it, without compromising your joints in the process.
#functionalpatterns #hypermobilitycrisis
Most athletes train hard but still move like shit.
They build strength in straight lines and avoid rotation, and then they wonder why their performance plateaus or they keep getting hurt.
If you can’t produce force through rotation, you’re leaking energy every single time you sprint, cut, or change direction. Traditional weight lifting does not account for this. Machine training does not account for this.
@fp.athletes train their bodies to transfer force through the entire system so they’re not just strong, they’re efficient.
If your training isn’t improving how you move, it’s limiting how you perform.
If you want to improve your performance, my virtual Dynamic Classes are where we build athleticism step by step. Correctly.
Unlimited Virtual Group Class Membership. Link’s in the bio.
#functionalpatterns #trainrotation