Did this in full today (no timesaver). Nice mobility workout. If I were to compare, I actually feel like the original LMR's Functional Mobility workout was more energetic than this one.
This one was definitely more a sort of take your time and stretch approach.
Some old familiars in there like the seated figure 4's where she then tips you down into a modified lotus for the "clamshell" stretch. I never have the problem with the seated figure 4's that Cathe tends to go into great detail about each time this shows up in any of her stretches. Guess I spend a lot of extra time stretching my hips. Grateful it's a "feels nice" stretch instead of a dread-factor stretch.
Other familiar 90/90s, scorpion, wide-arm shoulder stretches.
Appreciated a couple new moves like the move where you extend your back leg out and kind of dip your hip down. Think she was calling it half-kneeling side hip or something. Also appreciated the brief, modified camel poses. That one's always tricky for me because I've got a pretty stiff spine and short arms and fingers. A full camel pose is typically always a hard "NO" for me because of my limitations, unless I'm using blocks. But doing it unilaterally was doable and gave me some nice extra stretching in my quads and hip flexors.
Core work was decent. I chuckled when she joked about holding us in the banana/hollow-holds for an hour. Fun to see some more PT-type core moves in there like dead bugs and bird dogs.
Everything was just at a leisurely, gentle pace, which is always nice for days when I'm looking for recovery.
Happy to have this to add to my growing list of Cathe mobility titles.
And at 40-something minutes long, this actually flew by.
