Grok Squat

Check out this video of Mark Sisson (of Mark's Daily Apple fame) going through his sprint workout. After I saw this a week or so ago, I decided to incorporate the Grok Squat (also known as the "indigenous people's stretch", or by some people as the "asian squat") into my morning wake-up routine. Every morning for the past week, I have gotten up and popped straight into a grok squat for about 3 minutes. It's amazing how much more flexible I've been feeling lately, and I'm going to go ahead and credit a large part of that to my morning grok squats. Try it out for yourself and see what happens...

Just a few disclaimers though... If you have poor hamstring flexibility in your normal air squats (i.e. you tend to roll off of your heels onto your toes when you go below parallel), you may want to hang on to the side of a couch or chair or something to help balance yourself. And second, this is a very passive stretch. Just drop down and hang out there for a few minutes. Don't start tightening muscles and such... Just be cool and relax.

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WOD 100912 Sunday

Warm-up

S/S: Overhead Squat, 5-5-5-5-5

WOD: Complete four rounds for time of:

-20 DB Swings (35/25#)

-15 Overhead Squats (65/45#)

-10 Parallette Push-ups

-4 Turkish Get-ups, 2 each side (53/35# KB)

Finish: Grok Squat, 4 minutes.