These are five of the very best beginner mobility exercises for any age, according to an expert coach

Woman in shorts stretches into a side lunge while training outside .

For the past few weeks I've been dutifully following a month-long mobility challenge devised by flexibility coach Roger Frampton.

Amid all the fairly modest objectives, like sitting cross-legged on the floor, to preposterously challenging fantasies, like reverse wall walks into a backbend, there are five beginner exercises Frampton thinks everyone should keep in their locker.