Hey guys, just dropped a full body mobility video in the classroom! 👆 This video is for all levels but especially friendly to beginners looking for a routine to deal with their stiffness and need a place to start. This will still be a bit challenging in some areas but the goal is to do the exercises regularly to build strength so that it becomes easier. Check it out in the classroom now. Would love to hear what you think! ☺️ Also intermediate full body mobility video coming soon 👀

What's up! Welcome to NinjaFit 🥷 - I'm so excited to have you on this journey with us to become powerful, mobile and shredded ninjas! Please take the first step with us and drop a quick intro of yourself in the community chat that includes: 1. Your name 🙋‍♂️ 2. Where you are from 🌍 3. What’s your fitness background - or if you don't have any, what got your interest with this community? 💪 4. (Optional) A fun non fitness related fact about yourself 😁 I'll start it off - I'm Raj from Virginia, near DC and I've trained nearly 10 years in martial arts. Starting off with 4-5 years of wrestling and BJJ, then another 4-5 years of a mix of Tae Kwon Do, Boxing and Muay Thai. Aside from all this, I love writing and have written short stories since I was 12, even a full sized novel when I was 22 (it's not very good but it was a fun experience)

Hey guys, so I want to share the biggest tip that has improved my understanding of mobility and getting more out of my range of motion and thats - focusing on strength 💪 OVER just stretching 🧘 I've spent years stretching my hips only to get barely noticeable improvement on my range of motion ❌ Yet once I was started making my hips STRONGER, my ROM improved dramatically without having to get warm and stretch for a bunch of time 🤯 This is because a stronger muscle can actually HANDLE going further in range rather than stretching a weak muscle that may temporarily REACH it - which is what often leads to injuries! 🤕 The best phrase I've heard on this that I'm stealing, "Stretching rents range of motion, strength buys it!" 💰 🚨 That's why I created a 20 minute Hip mobility flow video in the classroom here that covers several hip strengthening exercises (and some stretches) to build strength in these weak areas and actually improve your range of motion 🚨 Check it out on the classroom tab under the Mobility category and let me know what you think! 😊

So as someone that trained in a variety of modalities, I've been wrestling with the question that has turned into a constant online debate - Which is better for building REAL strength, whether its for martial arts, or real world in general - bodybuilding training (i.e hypertrophic training) or functional training (full body movements, kettlebells, explosive exercises, etc)? 🤨 The truth that I've come to is - you need both. And the level of each varies for the goals you have 🤷🏽‍♂️ Bodybuilding training has gotten ALOT of hate for being impractical in the limited movements it trains, overvaluing size of the muscles over functionality, creating slowness and stiffness, and also being popularized by a community of ridiculous looking roid heads ❌ While some of it is true, it still retains its value in one simple truth: Hypertrophic training creates bigger muscles. Bigger muscles leads to more potential strength. The key word here is "potential"💡 In other words, HT creates the "hardware" for your body. Functional training doesn't do this. It doesn't make you notably bigger or really change your appearance much - so it can be hard to see results ❌ But the key difference is how it makes you FEEL when you do certain movements. Which is stronger, smoother and faster at that movement! 🏃‍♂️‍➡️ Functional training recruits the muscles you already have to engage in full body and explosive movements, and trains them to be better at these movements. Simply put: It takes your potential strength focuses it into REAL applicable strength 💪 Essentially, FT creates the "software" that programs the "hardware". This is nuanced of course. End of the day - someone who lifts a bunch of weights is generally stronger than someone who doesn't. Until that person has to perform a certain important movement they are not used to, against someone who trains that movement regularly 🏋️‍♀️ That's why you need both as a martial artist and an athlete - larger muscles that are trained to perform applicable movements makes you a force to be reckoned with 💯

What's up guys! Hips and lower back has always been a major weak point for me as it gets incredibly stiff and hard for me to perform my ninja kicks 🦵and it's something that I'm working to improve on since I started this community! That's why I made a video providing a quick 15-20 minute workout for hip strengthening & mobility that has been personally helping me for: ✅ better range of motion ✅ Developing strength & power ✅ Creating a "bouncy, elastic" feel to my kicks like a strong rubber band. I will attach the video below here and in the classroom! Let me know what you think of the video and if theres other parts you'd like help developing strength and mobility in!