Recently, a short video popped up on my feed: a man who had walked away from one of the world’s biggest financial institutions at 38, swapping a comfortable salary for fight gyms, family time, and a business built on mobility training.
That man is Richard Trovatten, founder of Mobility For Fighting. His six-week programs promise to make kicks higher, backs more flexible and strong, and travel days less punishing.
I reached out to him to find out what prompted him to leave the office for Muay Thai, and why his approach might be exactly what fighters, digital nomads, and frequent travelers need.
From Office Life to Muay Thai
Richard didn’t grow up fighting—or even playing sports. Just before turning 30, he was out of shape from years of office work and an unhealthy lifestyle that included many late nights out when he followed his wife into a Muay Thai class. It clicked instantly.
“I had never done any sport in my life,” he recalls. “Then, suddenly, I was training fifteen to twenty hours a week. I quit smoking, went out less, and fitness and Muay Thai became my primary focus.”
But the obsession revealed a gap: his body wasn’t prepared for the demands of pivots, kicks, and clinches. His hips were tight, his back hurt, and his knees took the brunt. The fix wasn’t more sparring—it was mobility.
“Most programs just repackage yoga or gymnastics,” Richard says. “But if you want to be both very flexible and very explosive, you need something different. Everything has to be dynamic instead of static.”
“I quit my 9–5 because I wanted more time with my family but also because I wanted to focus on my coaching, and on creating and scaling the first truly great mobility offering for combat athletes,” he says.
What began as self-experiments years ago quickly drew attention: training partners asked for help, coaches asked for tips, and eventually tips and drills turned into classes, 1:1 sessions, and online programs.
“It was personal first,” he says. “The business grew out of me sharing what I’d already been doing for myself.”
What the Programs Include (and What They Cost)
Mobility For Fighting is deliberately narrow. Instead of overwhelming people with hundreds of videos, Richard designed three focused modules priced at $89 each—or $199 for a bundle called Full Combat Mobility:
- Roundhouse: Head Kick — lengthens the inner thigh and groin muscles and strengthens the outer hip muscles. all to allow for a powerful and swift full-range roundhouse kick.
- Frontkick: Teep to Face — lengthens hamstrings and strengthens hip flexors. Enabling better and stronger hip flexion and extension to allow the leg to move fully forward without bending in the knee.
- Leanback: Elastic Spine — spinal mobility and control for evasive lean backs, clinch, and striking. Great for injury prevention from hours of being hunched over a phone/computer and from prolonged pad holding.
Each Program comes with a six-week plan, a way to track progress and workout completion, daily 10-minute follow-alongs, and warm-up and cool-down routines that can be incorporated into your normal training sessions.
A $39 consultation option lets Richard tailor the plan, with a discount on the programs included.
“If someone wants overall strength and flexibility, I normally recommend doing all three programs as one,” he says.
“They unlock multiple techniques, and each supports the others. But if someone has one specific weakness—say, tight hips stopping their roundhouse—then they can just take the targeted program.”
Why Six Weeks Is Enough
I was wondering why just six weeks, not four or ten. For a reason. “Flexibility for splits can take years,” he says. “But kicks are different.
You can max out in dynamic flexibility in as little as six weeks. Unlike building static flexibility, such as for full splits, you actually do not have to alter muscle tissue; dynamic flexibility is all about retraining your nervous system and convincing it that it is safe to kick high, for instance.
If you consistently kick into your max range and show your body it is safe, the range expands.
And at 6 weeks with the right programming and consistency, you will have reached your max. In this case a proper range head kick.”
Who Is It For?
The customer base is broader than he expected. Fighters and coaches are core users, but they’re joined by hobbyists, late starters, and even guys who’ve never been in a gym.
“Some want more power in their kicks, some want to stop getting injured, some aren’t even into combat sports,” he says. “They just want to move better.”
Travelers and digital nomads are a fast-growing group. The short, gear-free routines fit into hotel rooms and airport lounges.
“I work with professionals and nomads 1:1 outside of the online programs; these people need something to undo the damage of sitting all day,” he says.
“My programs are made for combat, but mobility training does wonders for everyone.”
Meditation in Motion
While the sessions are dynamic and strength-driven, many clients describe them as calming. The coach agrees.
“It’s not yoga, by any means, but it creates its own type of focus, calm, and quiet. The rhythm of the drills is almost meditative.”
He often hears unexpected feedback: people move better in everyday life, sleep better, and even think more clearly.
“Mobility training builds awareness and control. It makes you more centered—not just physically but mentally,” he says.
The Best Feedback From Students
Interesting that Trovatten’s favorite stories come from skeptics. “The best is wheb someone who thought they were too stiff to land a head kick achieves this according to plan in the six weeks,” he says.
“Many had tried other flexibility programs and failed. Seeing them hit those results—it always hits hard.”
One of his clients, a 42-year-old desk worker, joined the Head Kick module after years of pain.
Within weeks, he could not only kick higher but also run without knee issues. Another, a pro fighter recovering from a back injury, credits the Leanback module with keeping him in sparring.
On the Road: Travel-Friendly Training (Hotel Rooms to Airports)
Richard says that mobility is one of the few fight habits that travels well. He offered us a go-to ten-minute routine for hotel rooms or airport lounges that looks like this:
Minute 1: Hip circles – shift weight, explore range — 30 sec each leg.
Minute 2: Front-to-back leg swings – 30s each leg.
Minute 3: Side-to-side leg swings – 30s each leg.
Minute 4: Pogo bounces – light and springy.
Minute 5: Cossack squats – flow side to side.
Minute 6: Long lunge hold with pulses – 30s each side.
Minute 7: Kneeling T-spine rotations – 30s each side.
Minute 8: Cat-cow – smooth spine articulation.
Minute 9: Shoulder rolls/arm circles – 30s forward, 30s back.
Minute 10: Ragdoll hang with side-to-side sway – relax neck and arms.
The point isn’t to sweat. It’s to keep joints moving purposefully, to build strength in full ranges of motion, and to avoid stiffness.
“For people traveling it makes the difference between feeling great when landing or fighting pains and stiffness the first 48 hours of your trip,” he says.
So, what is next for Mobility For Fighting?
Trovatten says the business is growing, and he is now aiming to build a light monthly subscription model to provide short, impactful workouts outside the six-week framework.
Longer term, he imagines opening a physical location somewhere and running training and retreats where people come to train, eat well, and learn new skills and habits they’ll take home with them.
“I’d love to run a special kind of place where people leave with a new view of themselves and new tools that they can use to improve their lives,” he says.
Quick Facts: Mobility For Fighting
- Price: $89 per module / $199 bundle / $39 consultation
- Length: Six weeks, lifetime access
- Time: 10–20 minutes per day
- Who it’s for: Fighters, late starters, travelers, professionals
- Style: Dynamic mobility + strength, not static stretching
- Extras: Progress tracking, video tutorials, warm-up & cool-down sessions
Book a 1-to-1 consultation here.
Richard’s Recommended Gyms and Combat Clubs
“I recommend KO Combat Academy and JTT Muay Thai in London for those seeking high-level Muay Thai training.
For mobility training, my two favorite gyms in London closed down, but you can follow their founders, Angus Martin, who ran Lift here, and Erdi Babil, who ran Move Hackney here”.
