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MMA Flexibility Routine
While lockdown restrictions are still in effect, that doesn’t mean that your training has to stop! Now, perhaps more than ever, it’s still vitally important that you keep training to take your MMA skills to the next level. That way, when restrictions are eased, you’re more than capable of competing at the highest level. Exercise…
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Yoga Poses – Sukhasana or Easy Pose
Meditative Pose. The Easy Pose, isn’t always easy. After 10 minutes the position can become painful and unstable. It can help you feel ‘grounded’ and connect with yourself. If you have knee and/or hip injuries or issues, then you may not be able to do this pose. Same with serious back issues and/or back pain.…
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Yoga Poses – Triang Mukha Eka Pada Paschimottanasana or Three Parts Forward Bend Pose
As with the vast majority of yoga poses, this one is easy to pronounce and you want to make sure that your pelvis is neutral and the spine is aligned ‘straight’/normal curvature. With this pose, avoid or modify if you or student has knee stiffness or injury. Next bring left foot onto the floor, bending…
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Yoga Poses – Balasana or Child Pose
Children are proper chill. Well, they can’t control their emotions generally, but when they want to chill and switch off, they are yogi master level instructors. This pose helps you to chill like a child. It’s also called child pose because some children fall asleep in this position. If you have tight hips, you might…
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Yoga Poses – Paschimottanasana or Seated Forward Bend
Make sure that you are putting equal weight on each glute / sit bone Normal people with sitting or sedentary job get a pelvis with an incorrect tilt, causing a exaggerated curve in the spine. This pelvis issue causes a hunchback with rounded shoulders, pushing neck forward. If you have these alignment issues, first bring…
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Yoga Poses – Dandasana or Staff/Stick Pose
Dandasana or Staff/Stick Pose The Stick pose can be difficult for general population – office workers and static standing jobs can ‘re-align’ the body. Problems with sitting jobs – passive lengthening of neck muscles and forward head carriage, rounded shoulders, tight hips, lower back, shoulders, pelvis incorrectly aligned – causing tightness on abdominals. Hamstrings are…
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Sport Science Overview for Football [2024]
I’ve made a quick video regarding sport science for football or soccer. It can be applied to most sports though, including MMA. I’ve found most coaches to be pretty old school – generally angry w*nkers with no ability to coach players on the football pitch, other than to shout vague insults born out of frustration.…
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Wellbeing and Business Podcast Episode 2
Second episode of this amazing podcast. Stress – stress is the inability to activate the parasympathetic nervous system and doesn’t necessarily relate to a mental feeling of stress. Stress of sorts can be caused by shallow breathing, poor posture or just not having time to switched off or socialise https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSGv8VhF/