Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

I use terms like stability, mobility, flexibility and balance all the time in my podcast episodes and my articles,

but I rarely have the time to do a deep examination

of each. So today, with the help of my special guest expert, I am going to rectify that issue.

Now, to help me in this endeavor, I have asked Yoga 15's Abby Carver back on the podcast, and

you may remember her from a past Get Fit Guy episode that was all about how you can use yoga to improve your athletic performance.

Now, Abby, if you've forgotten, is the founder of and an instructor at Yoga 15 and a two-time 200-hour yoga alliance certified yoga teacher and a National Academy of Sports Medicine

certified personal trainer.

So she knows a thing or two about how the body works, which makes her the perfect person

to explain stability and how it relates to the human body.

So stability, as it relates to the human body. So stability as it relates to the human body refers to the ability to hold a position

and also to control your movement.

Yeah, from an anatomical perspective,

stability is the ability to hold a position,

but it's also the ability to control your movement through different,

you know, different movements and different positions. Now, this seems simple and straightforward

enough, but I think it sometimes gets a little muddled up with some other terms like mobility

and balance. So I asked Abby to set us straight on that. So yes, stability and

mobility typically refer to joints. So for each of our joints, we have a spectrum of available

mobility and a spectrum of available stability. Stability is that you can think of it as the strength

of a joint and mobility is the range of motion at that joint. So let's take ankle, for instance.

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