Jock Joints
Live weekly · taught by Mike Jock

Strength training
for your joints.

We open up space, then we use it. Ninety seconds breathing into a position to make the room, then ten seconds of PAILs and ten of RAILs to make it yours. Ten off, and round two.

One repetition, running in real time A ring divided to scale: three quarters of it is ninety seconds of breathing into the position, then three short blocks of ten seconds each — PAILs, RAILs and rest. Inside, a figure's arm opens through its range across the long phase and then works hard at the end of it.
Open 90 sec · breathe into the position
PAILs 10 sec · push into the stretch
RAILs 10 sec · pull yourself deeper
Off 10 sec · then round two

A real rep, running in real time — follow it on your own floor. Shown here at the shoulder.

One rep 120 seconds · drawn to scale

Ninety seconds to open it.
Twenty to own it.

The long part is not the work — it is what makes the work possible. The blocks below are proportional: that is genuinely how lopsided a rep is.

0:00 — 1:30Open

Breathe into the position, about eight slow breaths. Nothing forced, nothing bounced. This is the part that makes room, and on its own it is only borrowed.

+10sPAILs

Push into the stretch.

+10sRAILs

Pull deeper, hold it yourself.

+10sOff

Release. Then round two.

PAILs and RAILs are the two contractions that turn new room into range you keep — push into the stretch, then pull yourself deeper under your own power. The longer explanation.

The method Two beats

Open the range.
Then use the range.

Beat 01

Open the range

Ninety seconds of breathing into the end of a position. It makes room — and room you cannot produce yourself is room somebody lent you.

Beat 02

Use the range

Twenty seconds of hard contraction at that new edge, with nobody holding you there. This is the strength training part, and it is what your body keeps.

The class Live, on your own floor

Forty-five minutes, once a week, coached live.

A recording cannot see you cheating a position, and nearly everyone does without knowing it. Mike scales anything down on the spot if it is not yours yet.

Length45 min
Cadence1 / week
EquipmentNone
WhereYour floor

Every class is recorded whole and cut into single movements, filed by joint, so one clip can answer one question. 221 movements are mapped and none are recorded yet — each empty square is one of them.

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