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• When: Every Monday starting June 24 through August 5 (except July 22 when we'll be in CA for the Crossfit Games) at 6:30 pm
• Where: Fawcett
• How much: $200
• Who: Amy Honeycutt assisted by Morgan Blackmore. Space for 12 people.
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Shortly after opening CrossFit Tacoma, superfan Tom K recommended I [Morgan] get in touch with a friend of his named Amy Honeycutt. Amy is a Massage Therapist, but she's not your typical MT, she actually fixes problems. I've used Amy for several stretching clinics as well as hired her to teach an anatomy course for our trainers. A year after opening our doors, I invited Kelly Starrett (the mobilitywod guy) to come here. After his workshop I was somewhat surprised to realize that I had heard it all before, from Amy. What's more, Amy has become our go-to person for when somebody has persistent pain or restriction. She's where I go when I need help. In fact, I'll go to her when I don't know what the problem is. Her level of understanding the body and how it works is what I aspire to as a professional trainer.

Yesterday, I sat down with her and explained the problem and the goal. The problem is that there are many of you for whom traditional stretching and mobility work isn't sufficient. Even the great advice you find on mobilitywod.com can reach a dead end. When I look around the gym I see individuals who are still struggling with the same movement restrictions that they had a year ago. They work hard, and we've tried several different ways of addressing their problem, but with little improvement. I thought about bringing Amy in to do another stretching clinic, but I want something more powerful and more long-lasting. Clinics are useful, but you end up forgetting most of it and any questions or uncertainties you have later are left unanswered. The goal is to do something that will get people the specific direction and help they need and then give them the follow-up that will see them through to the results we're looking for.

The solution we came up with is this new Mobility Series. Here's how it works. On Monday June 24 at 6:30 pm at Fawcett, Amy, I and 12 others will spend a couple of hours giving an overview and how-to about best practices for improving movement. Then we'll do a complete personal flexibility assessment where we go over everything from trigger points, symptoms, history, posture, symmetry, range of motion, and sport-specific movement. Then, using that we'll put together a personal stretching program. Over the next 4 weeks we'll continue to tweak and revise your program. If you've made progress we'll move you on to the next step. If not, then we'll be able to figure out the problem and make corrections. On the last day we'll have a long session again where we do a final wrap up and send you off with a plan for the future.

So there it is. The class is limited to 12 people. I posted a little announcement on the Facebook group this morning and as of this writing on Friday afternoon, 5 slots have already been filled. Registration is now open.