A Joint by Joint Approach to Training Part 1

This method of training each joint in the body was made popular by Gray Cook.

Simply each joint in the body requires mobility or stability.

What's the difference here?

Well mobility is the ability to perform a desired movement where stability is the ability to prevent an undesired movement.

As part of this training methodology, a mobility-stability continuum was developed to better explain what each joint in the body requires.

Starting from the feet and moving up each joint alternates in it's demands.

Ankle - Mobility
Knee - Stability
Hips - Mobility
Lumbar Spine - Stability
Thoracic Spine - Mobility
Scapula - Stability
Glenohumeral Joint - Mobility

Training joints on purpose, or in many cases without knowing, for what they aren't meant to do will result in a decrease in performance and potentially injury.

More tomorrow.