I'm at a different point in terms of exercise and my body. I'm no longer interested in anything specifically to lose weight. My focus is mobility and fixing imbalances, primarily because I've noticed over the past few years how being imbalanced negatively affects my hooping.
There's a guy in Ireland, Tom Morrison, who developed a program called the Simplistic Mobility Method that's focused on helping you be more mobile and giving you a good foundation. Unfriendly bought it some months back and has been doing it in the mornings before work. I decided to finally try it yesterday, which is what I was doing when the tree fell on the house.
The instructor is a former lazy non exerciser who discovered MMA in his mid 20s, proceeded to injure himself very badly while still working out / exacerbating things to where he couldn't do what he loved. He found that exercising with bad form just made things worse and through a lot of PT /rehab, he came up with this sequence to help align himself. One of his students helped him market it / developed the website and she's also the one doing all the demos.
There is an assessment piece you do first and the only thing I felt comfortable scoring myself with a 10 is touching my toes. I can easily scoop my fingers under my toes. Everything else was not great.
Then there are 13 exercises you do in other to open up your hips, shoulders and back. They're basically mobility using your own body weight and wow. Unfriendly asked me how my assessment went and I said it was very humbling. I am so sore today.
There is a separate video of easier versions, which I did today to not completely lock up, and even some of those were challenging. For example, one exercise is a side plank march. I cannot get into a side plank at all, so the modified version where you put your upper body on the couch so that is how your weight is supported was still difficult because of how sore I am, basically all over.
The one thing I've improved at over the past year is being able to get into a deep squat with my heels flat. Not everyone has the hip structure to do it. I worked on just hanging out in the bottom of the squat over time. When that felt comfortable, I'd use a door frame to assist myself down into a squat. Now I can get into one and back up without help but I can only do about 5-6.
Anyway, this is his website and a video about the program. He's silly, which is a plus. It's also 41 seconds.











