Mobility

How it is used

A key word in modern coaching and physio. Trainers add mobility work, mobility drills and hip or ankle mobility exercises to a programme, often during the warm-up. Limited mobility can restrict how deep someone can squat.

Example sentences

1. We spend ten minutes on hip mobility before every lower-body session.

2. Poor ankle mobility makes it hard for him to squat deep.

Common collocations

• hip mobility
• ankle mobility
• mobility work
• mobility drills
• improve mobility

Related terms

• flexibilityThe ability of muscles and joints to move through a wide range of motion, for example touching your toes or doing the splits.
• warm-upLight exercise done before training or competition to raise body temperature and heart rate and prepare the muscles and joints for harder work.
• stretchTo lengthen a muscle by moving part of the body and holding the position, to improve flexibility or to relax after exercise.
• squatAn exercise in which you bend your knees and hips to lower your body as if sitting down, then stand up again; done with body weight or a load.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• mobility · Dentistry
• mobility · Physiotherapy

More terms: Muscles & the Body

• muscle
• hamstring
• quadriceps
• core
• abs
• glutes
• tendon
• ligament