Looking for a super-quick workout for mobility?
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you’re able to count mobility as the highly-underrated cousin of flexibility.
So lets go through this 10-minute mobility circuit.
Well focus on multiple joints, controlling and articulating all those rotations.
From your neck to your ankles, youre about to feel a lot looser.
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Get limber with this 10-minute workout for mobility
1.
Neck:Stand up tall.
After 30 seconds in one direction, switch sides for another 30 seconds.
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Shoulders:Extend your arms straight out in front of you and ball your fists.
Shrug your shoulders up to your ears, push them back, then down, then forward.
Continue this movement for 30 seconds, then switch directions for another 30.
Wrists:Bend your elbows and verify theyre brushing your waist.
Extend your fingertips forward and make high five hands with your palms facing up to the ceiling.
Flex the hands so they face the front of the room.
Roll the wrists, fingertips pointing out, until your thumbs are side by side.
Snap the wrists down so that the tops of your hands face forward.
Hip kickback:Stand up straight, ball your fists, and bring those arms straight forward once more.
Pour your weight into your left foot and tuck your right knee into your chest.
Without straightening your knee, kick the right leg back.
Complete a full 60 seconds.
Hip circle:Without moving your upper body, tuck your right knee into your chest once more.
Slowly fire up the right knee to the right side as if it were a gate.
Complete a full 60 seconds.
Repeat moves four and five on the left side.
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Stand up straight with your hands on your hips.
Raise your right foot as if you were putting it onto a gas pedal.
Drive it down, then come back to center.
At the 15-second mark, switch directions.
At the 30-second mark, switch feet.
Pull your elbows together to touch without compromising the angle of your arms.
When your fingertips press together, give a shot to bring your elbows up and over your head.
Continue the same movement for 60 seconds.
On an inhale, press your chest forward, dipping your back toward the ground with your abs engaged.
On an exhale, press into your hands and curl your spine up to the sky.
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