Do These 5 Exercises EVERY Morning - Mobility Stretching Routine

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6-Minute follow-along routine to improve your mobility and flexibility. Great morning or pre-workout exercises to stretch out of aches and pains and also warms-up and stimulates muscles and joints prior to activity.

(ROUTINE STARTS AT TIMESTAMP 1:27)

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MOBILITY VS FLEXIBILIITY
Flexibility is a muscle’s ability to elongate over a joint. How far can it stretch and how long can we hold it there. Flexibility is crucial in maintaining proper muscle and joint health and should certainly be worked on and improved.
Mobility, on the other hand, is not only how far can we move a muscle or joint, but how can we CONTROL that motion? How can we control that motion and turn it into functional movement? When I think about mobility it’s not about how far an area can move, but what is the quality of that movement and how can it translate into function?

This routine will actually help you out with both! These are 5 of my favorite mobility drills to help improve not only your range of motion, but the quality of that motion as well!

This is a great mobility routine to perform first thing in the morning to eliminate morning aches and stiffness. I actually perform it before each of my workouts as a great pre-workout warm up routine. It’s a great way to stimulate a lot of muscles and a lot of joints while stretching key areas prior to exercising them.

I’ll take you through 5 of my favorite mobility exercises to increase mobility and flexibility through the most mobile joints in your upper body (your shoulders), lower body (your hips) and spine (your thoracic spine or “upper back”).

Below you will find descriptions and time stamps of each of the exercises in this video. Follow along with me in real time or jump to a specific exercise at any of the below markers.

⭐️ BEST EXERCISES TO IMPROVE TOTAL BODY MOBILITY ⭐️

✅ (1:34) INCHWORM (4 reps)
Great stretch for your calves, hamstrings, and hip extensors. The axial load through your shoulders is great stabilization stimulus for your rotator cuffs and scapular stabilizers.

✅ (2:20) DOWN DOG TO RUNNER’S LUNGE STRETCH (3 on each side)
Down dog still promotes elongation through the hamstrings and glutes, but we’re also working to open up the chest and promote thoracic extension. We still get loading through the shoulders but now adding an overhead flexion component to it.
Take it a step further with hip flexion and rotation through the forward leg and an extension stretch through the hip flexors on the rear leg.

✅ (3:28) THORACIC SPINE ROTATION STRETCH (3 on each side)
Great exercise to promote thoracic rotation and and extension - during most movements the majority of your spine motion needs to come from your thoracic spine and not your lower back.
Try to get your top shoulder down to the ground.
Also taking the shoulder though a large range of motion by abducting, flexing up, and extending down.

✅ (4:57) BRIDGES WITH OVERHEAD REACH (5 on each side)
One of my favorite total-body mobility drills.
Activate the hip extensors (glutes) working with hamstrings working with lower back - introducing some active motion through these areas with extension through the hips.
Extend through chest with overhead reach and thoracic rotation.

✅ (5:57) LUNGE WITH EXTENSION (5 on each side)
Getting into a deep lunge will promote hip flexion and glute stretch on one side while we’re getting a large amount of hip extension and hip flexor stretch on the other side.
Adding the overhead reach will promote even more extension through the entire spine and flexion through the shoulder.

This is a great flow of exercises for anyone looking to improve total body mobility and flexibility and I hope it helps you out!

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Mobility and flexibility are two crucial, yet often overlooked, aspects of total health and wellness. I hope this video helps you in your journey to achieve that. Be sure to leave your experience in a comment below, like the vid if you found it useful, and let me know what other topics you'd like me to cover. Thanks so much for watching! 🙌🏼👊🏼💪🏼

toneandtighten
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I’m 25 and I’m already starting to get “old man problems.” I sometimes have a click in my hip when doing martial arts training. I really want to keep mobile for as long as possible. Thank you for sharing, brother.

oisinmaccumhaill
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Just watched this and this is pretty much same kind of stretch I doing the morning with a few different tweaks, I’ve had a few hip problems and this has helped a lot have added a few extra shoulder mobility drills but kept to similar dynamic stretches

matthewwatson
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Mornin’...I’m in my 17ft. trailer in a state park in Colorado stretching with you Doc. How you knew that I am in pain some mornings from sleeping wrong I don’t know but, I just Loved it this morning! #NewBeginnings btw, you just hit 500k the other day and you have 36k newbies Doc....You’re Awesome #HappyThursday

LiveLifeLove
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Thanks for this, I’ve been looking for a good (but simple and quick) stretching routine for the morning. I dislike stretching, but I think I can actually commit to doing this!

ltraina
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Absolute gem. Also doing your knee routines

vivekjoshi
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Hey man! Been doing your stretches ever since I found one of your thoracic exercises video because I always have upper back spasm and your videos really help!! Looking forward for more!! Stay safe 😁

louieboado
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Love this Jared.Really hits the right spots as a warm up or cool down. Interesting variations of stretches I do most sessions. It also made me aware of how limited the movement in my right shoulder is compared to my left.

gregmcgrath
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Beautiful stretching movements 💞 Made my body feel wakeful. Thank you! I will continue.

alexandradupont
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Love your new Real time follow along video!!! Thanks Doc. It's my new favorite morning routine 😍😍🧚

carmelasurban
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I'm not flexible, which is why I have up on doing yoga but thank you for having these videos out. It has been great doing your stretches and mobility exercises before a workout properly without over extending myself!!!! Thank you & saved to my workout routines!!!! 😁

sociomaj
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post-intro 1:34 for daily viewers like me. Thanks for a great video man!

oddursb
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I have got a sense of accomplishment after these stretches
thanks to tone and tighten/

eposdpo
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Fabulous. I have been doing this for a few months every morning and feel great.

Joris
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This was a class video, thank you, looking forward to doing this every morning 👍🏽

maikelidel
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I'm back to the gym monday. Just wath I needed 😁

benoitpeloquin
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Thought these are easy enough that if we do nothing else, these are a good stretch for everyone especially as we age. 👍🏾

jdcolo
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Just did this routine this AM and it definitely helped. 👏🏾 thank you

theresanyamekye
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Thank you so much your videos helps me a lot i dont need pain reliever now it lessen my pain. Awesome! i feel great after the stretching thank you Doc 😊🤗

reneerosedelapazjaramillo
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fabulous. Just getting back in tune with my body after 3 years of Long Covid. This is helping to motivate me.

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