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Mobility is one area I need to improve, and I am constantly advertised different apps or websites by the algorithm, has anybody used any that they could recommend?

I've previously paid for a GMB program, which is more geared towards ground based martial arts, and I suppose it was better than nothing. However, I found the app often glitched and it kind of just provided daily exercise videos, but didn't give much in the way of scheduling, goals, or monitoring (this was back during the pandemic so it may have improved since).

I am particularly interested if anyone has any experience of the Simplistic Mobility Method or MovesMethod, or any more climbing specific suggestions (lattice?)

SMM is good but it's essentially just a serious of about 16 exercises that you do 3 or 4 times per week, which I got bored of pretty quickly. I do however think that Tom Morrisons YouTube channel (the guy behind SMM), is really good. Loads of really food free stuff. 

Brilliant, thanks, this is exactly the information I needed, and thanks for the recommendation, his YouTube channel is great.

I use the Down Dog apps and rate them very highly.

The original app was for yoga, but they now have yoga, pilates, barre, HIIT, and meditation apps. Each of which has lots of sub types, allowing you to configure it to cover whatever mix of mobility and/or strength work you want.

The sessions have lots of options: 

- The type of workout (yoga, pilates, barre, HIIT, circuits, stretching , meditation etc)

- The subtype e.g. vinyasa yoga flow, ashtanga, hatha, nidra, yin, restorative, chair yoga, strength flow, stretching, guided meditation 

- The length of the practice 

- The difficulty level (the top level of difficulty is HARD!)

- The speed of the practice

- Any particular areas that you want to focus on e.g. hamstring flexibility, arm strength etc

- How much instruction you want from the app

- Genre of accompanying music or nature sounds, or silence

- You can upvote / downvote any poses or exercises, which will make them more/less likely to appear in future practices 

- What amount of warming up/cooling down you want

- For yoga practices: how much (if any) shivasana/relaxation/meditation you want to include

It keeps a record of every practice that you complete. So if there is one that you particularly enjoyed, you can save it to do the same practice again in the future. Or you can leave it to generate different varied sessions each time.

I've been using it since the beta test around 10 years ago. Eventually, I felt guilty enough about the value that I was getting for free, so I now pay for a subscription despite being eligible to have the premium version for free. 

if you pay for premium, it covers all of the different apps. They tend to do very good discounts (~67% off) at each holiday season. They also do good discounts for teachers, health workers, and anyone who is struggling to afford it.