I play with yoga asana and bodyweight exercises to create multipurpose mobility routines which combines flexibility training and strength building.

The How:
1. First, if you don't have access to a gym or studio space, find a hallway. Use that.

2. ‎Starting in a standing position, fold forward from the hips, hands to the floor or as close as possible with straight legs or with a soft bend depending on flexibility.

3. ‎Keeping the abs engaged, walk the hands forward as far as possible until you feel the abs bracing to hold you up. Challenge your core and arms and walk past that comfortable point. Then walk your feet in, keeping the legs as straight as possible by walking through the ankles and feet. Point, flex, point, flex your feet as close to the hands without bending the knees.

4. ‎Repeat until you get to the end of the hall.

5. ‎Reverse your way back down the hallway leading with the feet then walking the hands to the feet. All the same rules apply. Do not moonwalk the hands to the feet. Pick up and put down the hands.

6. Repeat until you can't do anymore. Seriously.


The Benefits:
This exercise will increase back body flexibility by stretching the lower back muscles hamstrings and glutes by performing uttanasana (the forward bend) while strengthening the hand and wrists, the muscles in the arms, shoulders, chest, back and the entire core (abdominals, obliques, erectus spinae) performing the walkouts.


No equipment needed and no excuses accepted. You may not have a gym membership, but you definitely have a floor. The more these are performed, the stronger you become, the further out you will be able to walk and the more flexible the back body will become. Trust me.