Author: Yusuke A

It is not Shohei Ohtani (although I am always excited to see him playing baseball) but Shohei Ohno who is a legendary Judo athlete, and I think he is a beast. He is a 2 times Olympic gold medalist and well known as pound for pound (as a fan of MMA, talking about pound for pound is so exciting).

These are not necessarily the best choice for ab exercises if you consider how “safe” they are (I don’t give any of them to my personal training clients). However, I do them once a while when I want to feel “burn” after the training.

It seems like almost all people I know, have a tight neck.  Yet most of them ignore it and do nothing about it.  Remember if you don’t use it, your body will forget what the normal would be. Your body needs a maintenance regularly like your car or a bike.

I am happy to see more people are aware of the importance of working on stability muscles. If you understand what to avoid and how they should be instead, you may be working more effectively!!

Each of your body has their own role and ankles need to be mobile otherwise this leads to tight calf muscles and knees have to compensate, then knee injury ankle injury or even low back injury could happen. These exercises can be done anywhere!  Try them as much as you need to improve your ankle mobility!!   

I can teach you in personal training sessions ,too!!

I don’t think you need to stretch these muscles too often but it’s good to stretch after using them, especially heavy biceps muscle days.  I see some guys who have very tight biceps muscles and can’t extend their elbows fully.  They really need to stretch biceps muscle otherwise the opposite muscle (triceps) is lengthened and can’t generate as much power as possible when the triceps are in the normal range.