THE ability to move your body and express a wide variety of positions is known as mobility, and it is an important component of our wellbeing.
Often overlooked for more glamorous fields, such as strength or aerobic capacity, mobility is a fundamental component of fitness.
Improving mobility can increase the efficiency of movement making day-to-day tasks easier along with enhancing athletic potential.
Take for example the weightlifter able to push 150kg, but cannot lift their arms overhead, or the runner who can complete three-km in 9:30, but can’t touch their toes.
Both have task specific capacity, but may have difficulty with simple daily activities like reaching up to a shelf or putting on shoes.
The pictures and video below show a simple routine that can be completed in less than two minutes to enhance mobility in the hips, spine and shoulders.
With our modern lifestyle of sitting in cars, at our desk, on planes and on the couch, it’s important we ‘open up’ our body to help counteract the time spent locked up in a seated position.
- Side Lying Archers
- Sit Up to Hip Rotations
- Cat-Cow
- 4-Point Tx Rotation
This simple sequence of movements could be completed in the morning upon waking, after a flight or like some businesses are now utilising, at your desk with scheduled ‘mobility breaks’.
