by Michelle Brown | Mar 29, 2016 | Mobility, Motivation, Technical
I love me some Technical Tuesday! The devil is always hiding in those details, so grab your weights, pull out that band, have a seat on that rower, its all about the PULL today! Pulling is an important functional exercise to explore as one of the 7 human/primal... 
by Michelle Brown | Mar 15, 2016 | Boot Camp Blog, Mobility, Technical
Recovery. Its the one thing that many every day athletes neglect. Any pro athlete will tell you that recovery time is an essential part of your game. Today we will review the basics of what I call “Recovery Posture”, which is meant to reset the scapula,... 
by Michelle Brown | Mar 8, 2016 | Mobility, Technical, Workout of the Day
At Gumsaba we incorporate corrective exercises during the warm ups and often throughout the workouts to enhance the symbiotic relationship of joints, tendons, ligaments, muscles and fascia. Under developed glute muscles are common. They cause a ripple effect down the... 
by Michelle Brown | Jan 21, 2016 | Boot Camp Blog, Mobility, Motivation
Think of your warm up and the cool down as injury prevention. Your body needs time mentally and physiologically to prepare for movement and for stillness. At class, we often warm up with bands. Each joint complex in our bodies trades stability for mobility. When we... 
by Michelle Brown | Nov 29, 2015 | Boot Camp Blog, Mobility, Sunday Stretch
You may have heard me talk about the various joints in the body that correlate with stability and the ones that correlate with mobility. The hip is one of our mobile joints; a ball in socket joint that allows motion in many planes. Some hips are more mobile than... 
by Michelle Brown | Nov 24, 2015 | Boot Camp Blog, Mobility
Fitness experts agree that the reason for many common fitness related injuries is improper (or totally non existent) warm up and cool down. Today we will discuss the warm up, and for cool down moves check out Coach Jentrys new Sunday Stretch pieces here. During a...