Me taking in the ocean during our recent visit to San Onofre A question was posed at class last night as we reached the final drill, "Why do you mobilize the jaw?" Good question!
The TMJ (jaw joint in front of your ear) is the last joint in the gait cycle. Meaning that every time you take a step, that energy from the ground enters your heel, travels up to your ankle, knee, hip, sacroiliac joint (pelvis), up your lumbar (low back) spine, to your thoracic (mid-back) spine, to your C-spine (neck), wraps up and around the side of your skull to your jaw. So every time you take a step, your jaw takes a hit.
A lot of people have jaw clenching, teeth grinding, and tension headaches because of stress both physically and emotionally. Doing joint mobility all the way up and down this chain of events, so to speak, helps alleviate that tension and the resulting pain issues.
With six new faces, I taught the get-up A-Z for a few reps and then had my seasoned 'bellers teach a few reps themselves. It proved beneficial for their learning process and allowed me to walk around and provide hands-on corrections and assistance to the newbies.
Get-ups can be overwhelming in the beginning, and there are always refinements and variations. But everyone did a nice job of hanging in there and we all got a solid get-up session under our belts.
After a solid 20 minutes of get-up work, I introduced the swing. The three that have been working with me for a bit did swing variations and snatches as I taught the new kids and they did their first night of swings. First of many to come!
We moved into super-setting suitcase deadlifts with hot potato. Then crush-curls and planks (planks being another "favorite" for the newcomers). ;) "Holy back, legs, arms, and chest batman!" one newbie wrote me this morning (not a direct quote, but pretty close) :p I felt a little work in my chest this morning myself and thought if I'm feeling it, they're definitely feeling it today! Good stuff!
So here's a wrap-up of the night's events as it turned-out for the fresh faces:
5 minutes joint mobility (JM)
20 minutes get-ups (GUs)
10 minutes work on two-hand swings
3x3/3-suitcase deadlifts (DL)
3x20seconds-hot potato
3x5-crush curls
3x20seconds-plank
4 High Pay-off JM drills (4 HPOs)
And for the three vets:
JM- 5 min.
GUs-20 min
1x40-alternating swings (alt swings)
1x10/10/10/10-one-arm swings
1x5/5/5/5-snatches or high-pulls
3x3/3-suitcase DL
3x20s-hot potato
3x5-crush curls
3x20s-plank
4HPOs
More fun in store next week!
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