Testimonials

Just an update about this mobility WOD you made for me. I have the guys in my water polo club who have sufferd from these shoulder injuries totally converted. Some hard stats as a result of those 8 players using your WOD are as follows:
7 Players now have no soreness post game (apart from normal muscle fatigue)
1 play had a shoulder recon – so he is out of the picture (Thats what your get from leaping for a ball at full extension and a 220LB jerk grabs his fingers and pulls)
From those 7 uninjured players their 10 x 400m time trial have decreased by an average of 5 – 8 seconds.
Strength has improved dramatically in all players
Morale of those players and their confidence that they can train harder & play harder has made a HUGE boost to the team.
We now sit 2nd on the Ladder with 2 round games to go looking very pretty for the finals.
I can smile knowing this 6 minute video was an absolute God send.

Matt Negline

I am writing you to say how much I enjoy Mobility WOD. I am a Strength Coach for Football/Volleyball at West Virginia University and I follow the daily mobility posts and have incorporated many of them into my own workouts as well as working with my Athlete’s. In the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning setting, we are pressed toward getting kids stronger the minute they walk through the door, although many of them are arriving with functional strength and mobility deficits. Your site is extremely informative and helpful when addressing these issues we see with our Athlete’s here in Morgantown.

I also wanted to invite you to check out our new website dedicated to violent triple extension, speed and plyometrics for increased athletic performance, Push The Ground. I got the idea to start this site after following Mobility WOD and wanted to show the practical application of Olympic lifts into a sports setting. Too many times it seems as though Olympic lifts, in some CrossFit settings, are trending toward a sport unto themselves instead of the beautiful, technique driven lifts that they are intended to be. I know after listening to you describe sound technique and methodology behind work done on the platform that you would agree.

Thank you for your time. I hope this email finds you and your family well and I look froward to checking out many more informative posts on your site.

Kevin McCadam
www.PushTheGround.com

I wanted to thank you for making a difference. I have searched for a resource that would allow me to regain my mobility, without sacrificing my athletic peruits. YOU, my man, have beed the one I found. The irony is I am married to PT. The challenge is that she herself is not an athlete, and has gotten to the point she does not want to hear me groan about what hurts on me. Too many PT’s are just about getting you back to your ADL, not back to the track, or field or whatever it is you persue outside the box.

I have been following your shoulder mobility routine and have found that it is so much more effective than what I had been doing. Not due to ignarance, as I have an advanced degree in Exercise Phys, but do to the lack of movement specific training. I appreciate the fact that you yourself are a PT, and a sports practicioner. Instant street cred when I talk to other about how to get results and the source I use for info.

It has made a huge differnce in my quality of life. Even simple things like doing 400M uphill sprint repeats have become more efficient since I got my shoulder moving again, with good stabilization.

I would love to take a day to come out to your facility and watch how you train clients. I don’t know if you go to industry trade shows, and if you do, come out to IHRSA and stop by the Technogym booth. That’s were you will find me. Most likely hanging off something or working on my hip and shoulder mobility.

Thanks again, and keep on blogging.

Alex Martinez

Yo, MWod has changed my life! I have been following your blog daily for months now and the amount of info you offer is reeeeeeediculous! One of the biggest things that I have learned is that “stretching” and “joint mobilization” are two different things. You are the MAN!!!

MWOD Fan

I competed in a “Team Grit” local CF comp this weekend at a regional sports expo. I love competing and it was a great time. A lot of MWOD nuggets came in handy for event prep. None of this however, is the point of my email.

A really cool thing happened, I don’t think I’ll ever forget. One of the athletes on a team I was competing against was a client of mine a couple of months back. A very athletic kid who pulled his back out deadlifting a submax load.

He could hardly take his shoes off. Long story short, he ended up being a very overextended athlete with no real understanding of how to organize his midline. We remedied his problems with appropriate manual therapies and movement strategy improvements. Anyhow he completed therapy 3 months ago and I haven’t seen him since. Well, his team ended up beating my partner and I by one slot. After the competition he came up to me and shook my hand and said,” Thanks for what you did for me in therapy. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have been able to train, let alone compete.” This seriously made my whole weekend.

The reason I’m sharing this is for one I know you’ll appreciate it; and two, I wouldn’t be nearly as proficient at sniffing out athletes lies if I not for your influence. Thanks a million. You reach farther into this community than you probably know.

Rob Wilson, CMT
Performance Therapeutics

Thanks again for all of your help and advice on improving the mobility in my hip. In particular, getting a standing desk might be the single best piece of advice I have been given in years. I am truly shocked at how quickly some of the tightness and pain I was experiencing through the front of my left hip (iliopsoas?) has improved. Remember when I was in your office and explained that when I stood with my toes pointed forward, hip in a neutral position and tightened my butt, that I experienced pain through my left hip flexor? The pain is all but gone. It’s awesome! I saw your MWOD “Death by desk” post and could not resist commenting.

I know I still have a lot of daily work ahead of me and my hip is never going to be perfect again but incremental gains are my focus and hopefully I’ll see some big improvements in the coming months. I am going to follow your six steps (standing desk, fish oil, glucosamine, tight belly, box squats and MWODs) religiously. I already owe you a debt of gratitude.

Many thanks, Kelly, and all the best to your family.

Douglas J. Bodel

Man, all I can say is “WOW”! I stumbled across your mobility blog because I am frustrated with my own mobility issues and know that I can get so much more from my body related to performance. I can’t wait to start on my problem areas through your coaching blog. I am a Firefighter who has been doing Crossfit for a year now and am not in phenomenal shape but complete the workouts (160lb. male, 5’7″ height, 12% body fat, 9 min. Fran’s, and yes I can’t OHS worth a damn). I am just so bound up after the workouts that even with (basic?) stretching I endure excrutiating deep-tissue massages once a week just to keep moving. After I discovered the mobilityWOD I looked for an App on my iPhone right away- dude you should so go there. I must admit that I have to watch each vid several times because you put a lot of information out there. Thank you, thank you, thank you boss I am so looking forward to feeling good about being fit. Also, your name (search) brought up the Meet The Coaches page from Crossfit San Francisco and after reading all the bios I feel like I’m totally missing out by living so far away; you’ve certainly got an incredible diversity of knowledge and experience leading your facility. Take care brudda, keep up the pace.

Alex Robbins
San Gabriel, CA