The importance of both mobility and stability in an overhead squat

– To give you an example of how important it is to be both mobile and stable in the same movement, let’s look at something like an overhead squat. So, generally speaking, in an overhead squat what is the greatest requirement at the ankle? Do we want the ankle to mobile or stable? You want it to be mobile. Here’s you doing an overhead squat. You want the ankle to be quite mobile. How about the knee? There are many people who need to work on the flexibility or mobility of their knees. We have to work on our ankle mobility. Generally speaking, this has to be stable. How about the hip? Needs to be more mobile. How about the lower back? Stable, starting to see a pattern? How about the upper back? How about the shoulder? You can see as we go, it alternates. This is how our body allows us to create both movement but also stability. If everything here is super stable you cannot move. If everything here is super mobile it’s like an overcooked piece of spaghetti. This is a great little example of how important both elements are not only in general but in one specific movement, just in an squat. It’s important that you have these conflicting, alternating patterns of being mobile and being stable. As soon as you have an issue with any one of these points all the others have to do something to compensate. We saw before when we looked at he squats. With the mighty squats his ankles weren’t mobile they were stable and everything else was thrown as a result of that. In your dip support holds on the rings, if you don’t have stability through your shoulder everything else falls apart because of that. Again we talked so much about bracing what were doing towards areas of weightness on a macro level in programming now on a micro level, not only in the individual sessions, not only the individual movements, but the individual joints as well.