Mobility Matters
- Dr. Daniel
- May 24
- 2 min read

It's very common for me to hear athletes of any level talking about the programs that they're working with to help strengthen their body, to help condition their body for their sport. But if we're not including some type of mobility routine into that strength and conditioning program, we're missing out on a lot of the benefits that can come from your strength training and from your training for your sport or sport in general.
Three ways that mobility will help:

The first and most important one is it's going to help in injury prevention. No matter how strong your muscles are or how tolerant they are to stress, if they're not able to move soundly in and out of the ranges of motion that you're going to ask of them during your sport or during your activity, we're quite simply going to make ourselves more susceptible for those sprain strain types of injuries where the muscles are pulling too hard on the ligaments or the ligaments aren't creating enough room for our muscles to be able to do their job.

Secondly, it's going to help your body become more resilient to your training, and you're actually going to recover better from the strength training that you're putting in. When we move our muscles, when we lengthen and contract those muscles and ask them to elongate to their maximum potential, we're also creating a pumping mechanism within that muscle. And so we're able to help move some of the byproducts of a hard strength workout or a hard endurance type workout and move some of those byproducts of that garbage in there that's making your muscle sore and contributing to those aches that you feel. You are going to help pump that stuff out of that muscle tissue and create more ease within the tissue so that it quite simply recovers better.

And lastly, and almost equally as important, we're going to put the body at better ease. When we have less tension, when we have less tone, our body rests better, and rest is going to be the primary thing that is going to allow you to train the next day, to perform the next day, to get back out there and to do the things that you want your body to be able to do from the training that you're doing.
So is strength important? Absolutely, but almost equally as important and maybe more important for a lot of athletes, your mobility is going to be super key. So don't forget about that when you guys are out there training and conditioning for your sports.
Be Well
Dr. Daniel