MOBILITY – open up your shins! lax ball smash those gnarly tissues 🙂

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJXqrrtG-sA)

MINDFULNESS – consider the classic mind/sky metaphor!

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcoKkYI9ctw)

Today’s mobility work is a great technique to address shin splints, the dreaded injury of heel-strikers everywhere.

While this smash and floss will help with the acute pain, only changing your movement patterns will really remove the threat of shin splints! So think of this as a band-aid, rather than a cure.

Today’s mindfulness work is a consideration of the classic metaphor– your mind is the sky, and your thoughts are the clouds.

This is a very effective and powerful visualization technique to frame the inner workings of your mind. Stew on this for a while, then sit down and box breathe. Let those thoughts and clouds pass.