Hi friends!
This week, I’m very psyched to share a full-body mobility sequence that feels ridiculously good. I filmed it on Tuesday, and later that evening I remarked to my husband, “My body just feels… great??” It took me a second to remember why! I also noticed over the next couple of days that my loud, cranky, crepitus-ridden knees felt like butter (silent butter!) going up and down the stairs, and when I sat down or stood up from a chair.
This workout is a great way to go joint by joint, from your ankles up to your neck, and tune things up, work on your range of motion, and work out some kinks and tension. It’s a really nice compliment to your strength training workouts, and I know it isn’t always easy to make time for recovery work, but it’s worth it if you can squeeze it in. All you need for the sequence is a mat and a chair (a sofa, bench, or ottoman would work too!).
If you were hoping for a new resistance training workout, I totally get it: reminder that you can always check out the HTM WOW archive here and revisit an older workout. (As a side note, I’ll soon be getting some support building out a WOW index, a la
’ brilliant recipe index post, so it’ll be a little easier to peek back at the workout archive and find exactly what fits your needs at the time. If you have any special requests for this index — categories that would be particularly helpful, etc. — please let me know.)Three more quick orders of business:
First, if you did the March strength-training workout last week and were like, “Sorry, but this half get-up exercise is not working for me!” I added some additional ideas for adjusting that exercise in a short video at the top of the post. You can find it here:
Second, in case you missed it, I’m teaching a special Pilates class later this month (March 18) to raise money to help open a new abortion clinic in Wisconsin. This is in addition to my usual Pilates for Abortion Funds class (March 25)! Find more info here:
Finally, I’m hoping to do an AMA (Ask Me Anything) post soon! I asked for questions in the Substack chat, but frankly many of the Qs I’ve gotten so far really warrant their own posts and will probably require some additional reporting so I can be confident I’m sharing the best and most helpful information (forever a journalist, friends). So! If you have any questions about exercise, my black t-shirt collection, cats, abortion funds, the ways in which our public school system perpetuates systemic inequality, Call the Midwife (mostly kidding, but anything means anything!), or whatever, please feel free to ask them here in the comments and I’ll consider addressing them in an AMA post or in their own meatier post in the future.
Okay! Here’s this week’s workout. As I mention in the video, this isn’t a traditional circuit — we just do each exercise once, all in a row — but I’ll include timestamps for each joint in the list ahead so you can jump around if your time or energy is limited.
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