Essential Mobility Bundle

I've been doing SMM for 6 months. 

I was thinking how awful my back pain was this time last year, and how scary it was. I journal my thoughts and prayers, and was reading how desperate I was in November last year. 

I am so thankful for SMM. I still have pain which varies in intensity but I have some days where it's nearly gone. Overall my whole body feels so much better. I'm stronger, more flexible, have way less injury anxiety plus of course I am 2 cm taller.

I hope to continue to improve and trust the process, and make progress and enjoy better quality of life

So thank you Tom and Jenni and this group for your advice and reassurance

SMM has really done a great job of getting me painfree without surgery for the back. 

Really helped me slow down and listen to my body and discover where I needed to strengthen and what muscles were overcompensating. And more importantly, how to do it. 

Probably the only workout that makes me tired, but I feel sooo much better afterwards. It's a really good life lesson program.

Well here we are then, happy two year SMMiversary to me.

This is in fact my only exercise at all this week as I've had a week off the iron while I settle into a new job.

Two years in and SMM is still quite easily the programme that gives me the most satisfaction!

I've done lifting programmes such as 5x5, Wendler, paid for monthly coaching and with my occupation I've always done my own programming anyway.

But SMM is something different:

After two years of SMMing you might look at me and think shouldn't this guy look amazing doing
this by now and be doing deep lunge rotation into blindfolded one armed handstands while
reading a book?

Truth is I use SMM to help me keep my dreams alive of getting stronger and hitting more Strongman PBs!

My life is heavy destructive lifting, poor sleep and high stress levels. So I have used SMM to become more mobile but mainly to not get any more broken than I was in Feb 2020.

I can 100% guarantee this though..

If all I did was SMM and no heavy lifting I would feel physically brilliant because SMM takes the stress away and makes the joints feel good again!

Do I want to keep improving and feel better than I do today? Damn right I do.

SMM for life!

Holy f**k - just got rid of a shoulder injury I have had for 20 YEARS!!!  

Did SMM yesterday then did my yoga practice today - shoulder was making me bad at yoga, now the misalignment is gone I find I'm actually good at it.

No wonder I had no energy it was affecting my whole body. 

I feel young again! 

 Tom Morrison is indeed a god.

Five-and-a-half week retest! Fifteen sessions in.

Before in grey top, now in black. Excited to see how much less wonky I am face-on and I think I've got less of a forward lean now, too.

 

Things I couldn't do a single one of at the beginning that I am now rocking:
90/90 pushbacks
Side plank marches (I did twenty each side this morning, would you like me to show you? Shall I show you again?!)
I'm much more upright in my squats too. 

Running also feels so much looser and stronger
And amazingly, I can now sit on my office chair without pain!

An unintended SMM benefit?!

I’ve been doing SMM for about 3 weeks. And I’ve noticed improvements in the actual movements, but also NO stiffness when I wake in the mornings and when I move around.

However, one thing that’s driven me crazy about my flexibility (or a lack thereof) is that in BJJ, we are on our knees a lot, (I’m in the purple) and my butt could not touch my heels when seated in someone’s closed guard! There would always be like this 3 inch gap between my butt and my heels. My training partner said I needed a bigger butt!! But I knew it was my own flexibility issues.

The last week or so I felt my butt graze the top of my heels while seated and I was astounded! My butt has not grown I assure you, but for some reason these movements are helping me sit properly in this position.

This is a silly little victory but I’ll take it!!