40fit Radio

In episode #5 we discussed one of the ten general physical skills: flexibility, and it's analog mobility. Most people believe that they are not flexible enough, that they need more mobility, and the path to acquiring it lies in a gauntlet of contortionism. Or yoga. How much flexibility and mobility do we really need though? Is it possible to be too flexible? How much time should we allocate to mobility work? Coach D takes us through the research and his decades of coaching experience to answer these questions.   To recap, flexibility is defined as the range of motion (ROM) in a joint or body segment. All joints in the human body have a normal degree of ROM established in the medical literature, plus or minus a few degrees depending on individual anthropometry, amount of body mass around the joint, tissue elasticity, and other factors. Mobility is a function of flexibility, the combination of a joint's passive ROM and your ability to utilize that ROM by producing force (strength). Skill also plays a role in mo