Our extraordinarily fit instructor in yesterday's exercise class told us to go look into Mobility. And then she demonstrated by holding a bar horizontally with both hands up above her head and reaching up over behind her head and bringing it down behind her back. It was strange.
So what are Mobility Drills? These are exercises that are specifically geared towards training your range of motion around joints. They involve actively moving, contracting and relaxing muscles through the joints range of motion. Some of these may isolate, while others involve multi-joint movement patterns.
Mobility is more complex than flexibility:
"To speak scientifically, mobility is “proprioception” – our perception and awareness of our body’s positions and movements. Mobility training, then, includes a range of exercises designed to increase your range-of-motion, control muscles surrounding each joint, and help you move more actively.
Flexibility, on the other hand, is the stretching and lengthening of our muscles. When you can increase the stretch and length of your connective tissue, you can help your body through a full range of movements without causing injury, stiffness and pain." That distinction is from evofitness.com
Aren't these names for exercises curious, interesting, or even alarming? Go check out the unlimited names for fitness classes and routines - people are creative and there seem to be lots of people involved in this area. Here are some silly fitness class names:
Power Hour.
Curls n' Crunches.
Fab & Fit & Fun.
Abs Fab / Fab Abs.
Walk this Weigh.
Wishful Shrinking.
Move it, Shake it, Lift it.
Why so many ideas? Think FITBIT/Smart Watch - it wants you to create nicknames for your workouts.
This is Chrysanthemum time at all the botanic gardens. Here's the Longwood Gardens' Thousand Flower Tree - one Chrysanthemum plant! The spider mums are from last year's show in Hamilton.
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