23/02/2023
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What is mobility? This is the generic ability to move, and is a combination of flexibility, stability and strength.
Better mobility training for shoulders, hips and ankles is popular topic at the moment. This is because if we canβt move and control our bodies, then whatever physical strength you may be trying to develop in the gym for example, will become very hard to see the benefits of that training.
As well as this, having poor mobility is like playing a waiting game to see when, not if, injury stops your ability or exercise and move freely and even bring difficulty to every day activities.
The key to better mobility is integration!
That means that no body part is isolated, the lower body is connected to the upper body. This is how the body is designed to function. Joints are either stable or mobile. Your ankle mobility could be affected by the lack of foot stability. Our hip and shoulder mobility could be limited by the lack of core stability and so on.
Using movements that create specific tension techniques to increase our stability so that we can achieve better mobility. These strategies donβt force us into painful ranges of motions and actually teach our body to slow down and develop better mobility!