Best Exercises You Could Ever Do: Toe Grab Squat & Rotation

So after watching the Canucks completely wet the bed last night (Really Luongo?? 3 goals in 3 minutes??? My dog has a better record in backyard shinny when he plays in net, and he’s tiny!!), I had to tune out about halfway through the second period. I mean, Boston pretty much owned the game, and the Canucks were about as mobile as molasses when they had the puck.

As such, I decided to make today’s post about getting fantastic mobility, and maybe they can be inspired enough to be the first Canadian team to win the cup since Montreal did it in 1993. Todays exercise is one of my all-time favorite, the Deep Squat with a Toe Grab, Rotation, and a sprinkling of hot sauce.

Why This Kicks Ass

The combination of ankle dorsiflexion and hip flexion range of motion gives you the ability to get deep into a squat, and having to grab the toes means there’s no halfway with this exercise. You’re either right to the floor, or your standing there with your butt in the air and off-balance. Not a pretty picture.

Combine this with the fact that you can’t cheat and round your T-spine into flexion, and you have all the requirements for a kick-ass active movement prep exercise that will get your legs and hips all jacked up and ready to rock and roll with some stupidly heavy weights that would make nuns cross the street to avoid, little kids break out into fits, and make grown men hang their inadequate heads in shame of their lack of manliness.