Ruben Sandoval

Ruben Sandoval Fitness and health.

11/09/2025

Yes, focus on big lifts….but do not forget the foundation we stand on. 🦶🫀

Your toes and feet are your first point of contact with the world, and as we age, degeneration tends to begin distally. The feet and toes are usually the first areas to lose strength, mobility, and neural control.

Toe CARs build control, strength, awareness, and balance from the ground up.

Not flashy. Not as intense. Just the kind of work that makes your body feel better today and 20 years from now. 40 year old you, 60 year old you, 80 year old you will thank you🕺

Prime the feet ➡️prime the system ➡️extend your health span.

Try this Toe CAR routine I made for my clients.
You’ll be surprised how fun it is to “wake up” the intrinsic muscles of your feet, and how quickly your movement starts to change.

10/26/2025

Strong hips move better, feel better, and last longer. This 90/90 internal rotation work builds strength and control where most people are weakest — deep inside the hip joint.

1. 90/90 INTERNAL HIP ROTATION
Sit tall with in a 90/90 position. Rotate the back hip forward and back, keeping your chest upright and movement coming from the hips, not the lower back. Move slowly and with control for 6–8 reps to warm up and prepare the hips for deeper work.

2. 90/90 PASSIVE RANGE HOLDS
Lean your torso slightly back, rotating the back hip into internal rotation. Try to lift the back heel and shin—it shouldn’t move yet since you’re in your passive range (a position you can reach with assistance, not active muscle control). Slowly lean your torso and hip forward until the heel just begins to lift a sheet of paper off the floor (this is now your active range of motion). Hold for 5 seconds, lower with control, lean back, and repeat for 5 total reps.

3. 90/90 PASSIVE RANGE LIFTOFFS
Find the position where you can lift your heel slightly off the floor on your own, without leaning back. Lift back heel and shin just enough to clear a sheet of paper—holding each for 2 seconds before lowering with control. Perform 12 small, controlled lifts. Finish by leaning back into your deepest internal rotation and breathing calmly to relax.

Own your range, don’t borrow it. This will be surprisingly hard but your hips will thank you. The more control you build here, the stronger and more resilient your hips become!

Seven years of inversions, summed up in a single shoot through the lens of  Balance is less about holding still, and mor...
09/29/2025

Seven years of inversions, summed up in a single shoot through the lens of

Balance is less about holding still, and more about learning to shift with precision.

Balance. Adapt. Overcome.

4 months of hard work, consistency, and purpose. came in with scoliosis pain after a major career shift—and he showed up...
05/01/2025

4 months of hard work, consistency, and purpose.
came in with scoliosis pain after a major career shift—and he showed up ready to change.

We used FRC principles to rebuild joint control and unlock strength.
But it wasn’t just training—it was consistent workouts, dialed-in nutrition, and better sleep that made this transformation possible.

The result? Less pain, more muscle, and a leaner, more powerful frame.

Grateful you trusted me with your journey.
This is just the beginning.

11/05/2024

ARE YOU OVERTRAINING? 🤯

One of my greatest insights from has been realizing that overtraining is often our body’s way of signaling a need for greater control, not just more repetitions. In FRC, the focus shifts from how much we can do to how well we can do it. Mastering volume is about harmonizing strength with control, building resilience from the inside out. Let’s transform ‘overtraining’ into ‘smart training’ by tuning into what our joints truly need for sustainable strength.

This doesn’t mean abandoning the training you love; it means enhancing it—enabling you to train better, longer, and with more durability. You become stronger, and your progress accelerates because you’re cultivating genuine control and meeting the unique demands of each joint and tissue. The result? A body that performs, recovers, and thrives at its highest potential.
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The exercises below were part of a 45-minute workout session.

While not all exercises are shown, they’re organized by blocks, though this isn’t the exact order in which they were performed.

Give the 1. Hip Capsule CAR’s, 3. Passive Range Lift Offs and 4. Side lying straight leg, internal rotation biased Hip CAR’s then Hit me up and let me know how they felt .

Let’s managing the targeted control and precision we’re aiming to achieve, helping you signal the body to build stronger, more resilient hip ‘architecture’.

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Block 1:
Hip tissue specific work.
1. Hip Capsule CARs
2. Wall blocked Hip Internal rotation PAILS/ RAILS
Immediately followed by Passive Range Holds
3. Passive Range Lift Offs
4. Side lying straight leg, internal rotation biased Hip CAR’s
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Block 2:
1. Glenohumeral joint capsule cars
2. Loaded swimmers
3. Supinated carry
4. 250M Row
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Super Soldier🧘🏻‍♂️🤤Swipe left to see how I moved into this pose.
10/26/2024

Super Soldier🧘🏻‍♂️🤤

Swipe left to see how I moved into this pose.

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