GMB Fitness

The better you move off the mat, the better you’re going to move on the mat.

I’ve been saying that for years, and after four decades of gymnastics, judo, and BJJ, I believe it more than ever.

Your techniques live or die on how well your body handles the spaces between them: the weight shifts, the level changes, the twists out of bad spots. You can drill techniq...

Squatting is a fundamental position that, once upon a time, was a position of rest. But nowadays, many people lack the necessary flexibility and strength, and squatting has become a difficult task for lots of people.

While some advise spending as much time as possible developing the squat as a resting position, we’ve found it more useful to build mobility around the sq...

If you want to start training single-leg squats, you’ve got two solid options, and most people reach for the harder one first.

You already know the pistol squat. It’s the flashy one, and if you can pull it off you look like a total badass doing it. No argument there. It’s also genuinely hard, and it asks for a specific mix of flexibility, strength, and control before i...

I squat every day, and I do it on a knee that surgeons rebuilt after I tore it apart at eighteen.

That injury ended my gymnastics career. I tore the ligaments in my right knee, had reconstructive surgery, and walked away from the sport I’d built my life around.

Decades later I train martial arts, drop into a deep squat without thinking about it, and load and tw...

So your heels pop up when you squat. Every fitness influencer says this is “wrong.”

Here’s why that’s bullshit…

If you’re training smart and working on mobility but your heels still come up in deep squats, you’re not broken.

I see this fixation all the time. Everyone wants the Instagram-perfect squat with heels glued down. Squatting with heels up is safe,...