Great thread!! At 52 this stuff is so important.

what actually constitutes as "mobility work"?

is it just a combination of dynamic movements in warm ups and cool downs, stretching and foam rolling, or is there more to it?

im hypermobile, have had a couple of nasty injuries in the past, and combine that with lifting and golf everyday my body is pretty much always battered and im fearful of another sidelining injury, so i know i need to try and build up a thorough but not massively time consuming plan but i dont know where to start...

there's just so much info, could anyway perhaps give me a place to start?

would be much appriciated :)

Mobility work is just that... stuff you do to enhance your mobility.

work, stress, injury and inactivity all contribute to a lack of mobility.

I use some or most of a program called magnificent mobility

couple that with some foam rolling amd stuff like jumping rope for a few minutes it takes 10 minutes.


when you say your hyper mobile do you mean 'flexible'
or is hyper mobile something someone told you like a DR. If you go to a chiro or ostepopath,
who adjusts your back or neck they may refer to certain parts of your back- usually the ones that crack
as hyper mobile.

i was told by a physiotherapist that im hypermobile in my knees and elbows - the rest of me isnt especially flexible. my pelvis is also prone to shifting out of line so i have to be careful of that too.

magnificant mobility? i'll google it :)

Ive been training for 20 years - all clean. I do martial arts whenever I feel that my mobility is lacking. It ensures all that muscle is 100% usable as opposed to just for show.......it works for me.

kmc, just dropping by. Thanks so much for alerting me to this thread! Just spent...oh...30 mins watching the vids, all of this is much needed for me. Can't wait to incorporate some of this stuff into my warm-up.

Thanks!!