Roundhouse: Head Kick
Single Goal Combat Mobility Program
Learn to kick higher—with power and ease
Also benefits: Side kicks, hook kicks and question mark kicks
What’s included
Educational Material
Begin with an overview of your mobility objectives. Each objective is paired to targeted exercises. Video tutorials cover how to modify each exercise to your flexibility level and how to increase as you improve.
10 min Follow Along Workouts
All workouts last 10 minutes. And the videos are precise to the second. This makes sure you don’t waste time. There’s 3 types of workouts: Daily Morning Dynamic Mobility and a weekly Warm Up and Cool Down.
Training Schedule & Progress Tracker
Use the 6 week training plan to tick off sessions as you go. And measure all key ranges of motion with the Progress Tracker before and after your 6 weeks. This gives you metrics to see your progress.
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What typically holds strikers back from roundhouse kicking high and with ease - are two things:
1: They typically struggle to abduct the hip (bringing the leg away to the side of the body). This is due to either weak hip abductors that lack the strength to perform the movement or tight hip adductors and groin muscles that inhibit motion.
2: Or they struggle to flex the hip (bringing the leg forward in front of the body). This issue arises either because their hip flexors are too weak to produce the necessary force or because their hamstrings and glutes are too tight and restrict movement.
Primary goals of the Roundhouse program:
Strengthen hip flexors and abductors
Lengthen hamstrings, glutes, and adductors
Ultimately: Kicking higher, with ease and power.
We achieve these goals primarily through dynamic and static active stretches, supplemented by some static passive stretches, across two workouts: our warm-up and cool-down.
Your Daily Dynamic Morning Mobility
This foundational routine is recommended daily to complement all programs, targeting overall hip dynamic mobility essential for any kicking martial arts (MMA, Muay Thai, K1, Taekwondo or Karate).
This workout alone, if done religiously, will add tons of height and power to your kicks.
Your weekly warm up
This 10 minute workout addresses the dynamic aspects, and some of your static-active strengthening exercises. These stretches will improve your dynamic flexibility in the ranges we care about - and it will also prepare your hips and make them ready for your regular training session.
Warm up goal: After 6 weeks, you will be able to kick from cold — without a warm up — as high as you currently can when warm (your maximum range of motion).
Your weekly cool down
This 10 minute workout addresses the static active and static passive flexibility, with stretches that are best done when the body is completely warm. So do these after your regular traininig has finished.
Cool down goal: In 6 weeks of training. This workout will have significantly altered the tissues (muscle, tendons, fascia and bone) and extended your maximum range of motion.