Age Strong

One of the best parts of my work at F & F is that I get the opportunity to pick intelligent members’ and clients’ minds and get great advice. Last week one of the members I often talk to said something interesting about his fitness and health goals….

He said, “Yes, I want good body fat levels and to stay strong, but what has become vital to me in my middle age is……”

“I want to get up from a chair after sitting for a while and just walk without stiffness or pain.” “When I’m walking and need to bust into a run like I have to in the parking lot of a store, that I can do it with no feelings of restriction.”

“I want to move with fluidity.”

He described the concept of mobility, the third leg of the fitness stool, the other two being strength and cardio. 

Mobility is the ability to actively move your joints through a full range of motion with control and coordinate stability at some joints when required while actively moving others.

People with poor mobility significantly increase their risk of getting injured, falling, and or simply being unable to do what they want to in their lives.

The problem with mobility is that even though it may be the MOST IMPORTANT leg of the stool, it is the one people spend the least time on.

Jeremiah (the Fitness Director at F & F and my YOUTUBE buddy) and I have been researching and developing better ways to help you move and increase your mobility.

Here is one of our secret weapons….. The mobility stick.….. you will see these scattered throughout all the F & F locations…. the bright orange bars with the black rubber tips.

These sticks are great for working on your mobility, and here is a 15-minute follow-along video we created that you can watch and do at the gym or home. HERE

For the first 5 minutes or so, Jeremiah describes each mobility stick moves at different difficulty levels. At minute five, the follow-along workout starts.

Try this work out on a recovery day or pepper the moves throughout your current strength workout. 

One thing you should NEVER do is take your ability to move for granted.