Mobility Training Exercises You Can Incorporate Into Your Workout Routine

Mobility training is not a very popular kind of training. However, it is one of the most functional types of training for our whole body fitness and general physical performance.

With ageing, our joints and muscles lose the mobility they used to have during childhood. Nevertheless, this is not something that can’t be reverted. Mobility training helps you do that. Since it helps regain mobility and flexibility, it is commonly used as part of recovery treatments and therapy for muscle and joint injuries. Furthermore, mobility training also helps alleviate the soreness, swelling of the muscles from working out or being injured, and it is even good for preventing them.

If you are not convinced about why you should get started on mobility training yet. You should also know that you do not have to replace your other workouts or dedicate entire workout sessions to solely mobility training. There are so many quick and easy exercises that you can incorporate into your workout routine, either as a warmup or post-workout.

Here we recommend a few exercises you can use to get started. Remember that even if these exercises seem easy to perform, we recommend getting guidance from a professional. It is a must if you plan on starting mobility training as part of the recovery process from an injury.

• Hip openers: it is always a good idea to start with the hips since they provide balance and stability to the body. A good and easy exercise is walking hip openers. Standing up, you will bend your knee forward and up so that your knee is in front of your hip. From this initial position, you will bend your leg out to the side. Repeat with the other leg moving your knee up and then out. You can repeat this exercise five times.
• Mobility flow: This exercise will help activate different muscle areas. For this one, you will need to hold an elevated plank position and push up to a downward dog. Then from here, you will walk your hands back until they touch your feet. You can bend your knees while doing this, and as your flexibility improves, you can try extending your legs a bit further. From here, you will walk back to the initial position. You could do around five reps of this exercise.
• Wall angels: For this exercise, you will need to stand up with a wall behind you, keeping your elbows bent to the side of the shoulders. You will raise your arms with your hands above your head. Keep the same position with your arms and always lean on the wall.

Do these exercises regularly and in little time, you will see some improvement in your mobility and posture.

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