Thread: Ankle Mobility

Here are two exercises Boyle recommends that I use with people, and myself:

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Why do you specifically need that?

Curious.

Originally Posted by JimSnow

Why do you specifically need that?

Curious.

Just as the title suggest...you need it if you lack ankle mobility.

Originally Posted by P-funk

Just as the title suggest...you need it if you lack ankle mobility.

I think he meant what sort of specific exercises would improve with greater ankle mobility.

Originally Posted by P-funk

Just as the title suggest...you need it if you lack ankle mobility.

The author didn't say he lacked ankle mobility. He just said he was looking for exercises to increase. Curious as to why he inquired?

Originally Posted by fufu

I think he meant what sort of specific exercises would improve with greater ankle mobility.

walking
jumping
squatting

anything with the lower body. I mean, if you ankle mobility it shit, it starts the chain reaction, all the way up, affecting your knee, hip, lumbar etc....

Take a look at the Black guy in video 2. The girl training him has normal ankle mobility. Look at him trying to do what she is doing! He can barely even bend his knees because he doesn't poses the ability to get the ankle to glide posteriorly. Mike said that he was a good basketball player but because of this poor mobility had terrible knee pain and eventually had to stop playing college ball all together.

Interesting.

Didn't even notice the black guy when I viewed the first time. That looks pretty aweful.


How about snow skiing or ice skating?

Originally Posted by JimSnow

Interesting.

Didn't even notice the black guy when I viewed the first time. That looks pretty aweful.


How about snow skiing or ice skating?

yea, if you have poor ankle mobility, it will affect anything you do.

anything with the lower body. I mean, if you ankle mobility it shit, it starts the chain reaction, all the way up, affecting your knee, hip, lumbar

exactly, thank you.

It's hard to imagine a basketball player w/ a problem in that area.

If it's so... I'll stick w/ my original suggestions. Ice Skating and Snow Skiing will certainly challenge your ankles through the fullest range of ankle motions.

You certainly can't squat or jump without "good ankles", too.

Originally Posted by JimSnow

It's hard to imagine a basketball player w/ a problem in that area.

If it's so... I'll stick w/ my original suggestions. Ice Skating and Snow Skiing will certainly challenge your ankles through the fullest range of ankle motions.

You certainly can't squat or jump without "good ankles", too.

It is hard to imagine a basketball WITHOUT that problem!!

Who ever teaches those guys to jump? Most of them start playing as kids and develop poor biomechanics because of lack of coaching. Also, most of them play, play, play and never strength or fix and muscle imbalances or movement impairments, leading to more tissue trauma, more swelling and adema, and over time, the joint locks up as a protetive mechanism to prevent movement. The cumulative injury cycle.

Originally Posted by P-funk

It is hard to imagine a basketball WITHOUT that problem!!

Who ever teaches those guys to jump? Most of them start playing as kids and develop poor biomechanics because of lack of coaching. Also, most of them play, play, play and never strength or fix and muscle imbalances or movement impairments, leading to more tissue trauma, more swelling and adema, and over time, the joint locks up as a protetive mechanism to prevent movement. The cumulative injury cycle.

Hmm. Might lend some credibility to this stange acquaintance I once worked with years ago. He told me... "I could teach Michael Jordon how to leap an extra foot." I laughed. But, feet planted on floor, he vertically jumped from a stationary position onto a counter over 3 feet high.


I witnessed.

Strangest thing, and person, I ever knew. Should have hung around him a bit longer... after I was fired for following some of his suggestions. LOL

BTW - Amoung the many things he claimed, he was once a ballet dancer.

I just want to say that a lot of people have ankle mobility problems. I find they are just as common, if not more common, than hip mobility issues.