Develop Functional Endurance
Will Torres on LIVE with Kelly and Ryan
Moving Like A Lizard Can Help You Develop Strength Mobility And Feel Ten Years Younger.
In today’s fitness environment, most people bucket their activities. They lift weights at the gym, spin for cardio, and do yoga for flexibility. One potential pitfall of this is that neither process communicates with the other. You can be unknowing lifting weights in a manner that decreases mobility. Or you could be doing stretches that you are good at and might be neglecting the areas in which you need it most. Another pitfall could be that you are not doing either of them enough to produce measurable changes within the body. You might feel accomplished because you did something, however, is it enough.
What if you could get all three benefits from one type of exercise. Enter Functional Endurance, a whole new way to do fitness.
Functional Endurance is a series of crawling, rolling, and balance exercises that engage the upper body, lower body, and core like nothing else. Rather than just running or being on a bike, each Functional Endurance movement will strengthen your muscles while developing tone and mobility throughout the body.
The movements are all performed low to the ground to develop the body where the joints and muscles are weakest. For example, someone might do twenty pushups, but does the chest touch the floor on every rep? Going to the lower position is more challenging, and people tend to avoid it. Our approach is to strengthen the body where it needs it the most by working on the missing pieces. As they say, “you are only as strong as your weakest link.”
One Of Our Favorite Upper Body Movements Is The Lizard.
The Lizard Crawl is a super-charged variation of the pushup. It starts high and, over time, evolves to being very close to the ground. The regular pushup is linear, just up and down. However, the body works best when there is some rotation to the movement, as in sports; think throwing, hitting a tennis ball, swinging a golf club, or kicking a ball. The rotational elements of the Lizard allow the body to become functionally strong and mobile.
In this video, our founder Will Torres will teach you the basic movements and different progressions of the Lizard.
Watch Will Torres share the benefits of the Lizard with Ryan Seacrest and Ali Wentword on the Live with Kelly and Ryan Show, click here.
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