Mobility Monday: Releasing Tight Shoulders, Hips, and Quads

Mobility Monday: Releasing Tight Shoulders, Hips, and Quads

Recovering from tough workouts and releasing tight muscles is one of the most important aspects of training.

Dec 5, 2016 by Rebecca Johnson
Mobility Monday: Releasing Tight Shoulders, Hips, and Quads
Gymnasts work hard. With hard work comes tight muscles and soreness, which can hinder performance. Recovering from tough workouts and releasing tight muscles is one of the most important aspects of training.

Rolling out your muscles is shown to decrease fatigue during the workout and speed up the recovery process after it. In Mobility Monday, learn how TriggerPoint's MB5 Massage Ball can loosen tight muscles for better performance in the gym.

Unlocking Tight Shoulders

Lots of bars can cause your pecs and lats to become short and tight, which leads to increased tension in the neck, lack of mobility in the shoulders, and sometimes shoulder pain. Release tightness and discomfort and increase mobility with these exercises:



Releasing Tight Hips

Tights hips can develop from training, but also if you're a college student, high school student, or professional with a desk job, chances are you spend a ton of time sitting in a chair. All that sitting can wreak havoc on the hips. Undo the damage from all that sitting:



Releasing Tight Quads

No matter what you do during the day, tight quads can have devastating results from a limited range of motion to knee injuries. Prevents scar tissue from building up and improve fluid exchange within the soft tissue with this quad-release movement: