the original routine is literally what i started my fitness journey with. After 2 years of depression and panic disorder , that was my first step towards a healthier lifestyle.

I’ve been following your original 15 min version for about 18 months. I do this 7 days a week (might have missed one or two) as soon as I get out of bed and I find it a great way to start the day. I’m a 68 yr old Aussie who surfs, plays golf and cycles (not all at once!) and your routine is a great help in all these areas. Might give this version a run. Cheers!

I watched your first 15 min beginner stretching follow along for at least 100 times, i am not kidding! I love your follow a long routines!

Congratulations on 15 million Tom! I may have commented something like this before, but I wanted to say exactly how important that first 15 minute video was for me. I first found it at a point when my body was failing. I was running regularly, trying to rebuild fitness I had lost over a series of illnesses, but I was in constant pain. My legs ached like nothing else, and I felt incapable of dealing with the stress. At some point, I saw a David Goggins video where he talked about stretching for hours straight, and how it had completely changed his ability to run and recover. I poked through youtube, found your routine, and then something clicked. I had stretched and done yoga before, but never found a routine that really worked for me. (I'm slightly allergic to people saying "namaste" in a breathy voice). Your style of video was exactly what I was looking for. At first I tried doing just your 15 min routine every night before I went to sleep. After maybe the third day, I woke up pain-free, and completely amazed. I had no idea stretching could have such a positive effect on my well-being. It focused me, and restored my ability to sleep, relax, and recover. I followed that video every day for over a month without fail, and started adding more and more follow-along routines to the end of it. KZfaq would autoplay me through your evening relaxation, hamstring flexibility, and many more routines and vlogs. Somehow, I was able to get into the best shape of my life in the following months. I've been through many ups and downs since then, but I've continued to follow and be inspired by your channel. I'm a proud owner of some nice wooden rings, and have a goal to perform a stalder press before I turn 30. I really appreciate the resources you put out there, and plan to make use of them for years to come.

Thank you so much for the amazing content that you continue to create Tom. I discovered your channel nearly 3 years ago and have incorporated your follow alongs into my daily routine. So pleased to see your channel grow over the years.

Coming back after a stretching hiatus and happy to see another version to the original as it was my go too! This year it’s time to touch our toes ! 😂

Love this 15 min session, so good to start the day.

Amazing! Thank you Tom, we love follow along videos.

I’ve been doing the 1st 15 min video, and it really makes me feel better. This one is great too! I really love his presentation, calm, not intimidating, encouraging! We all need more of that! Thank you Tom

Man, I'm a beginner in the stretching world and I'm trying new things out. Only your routines make me really feel the stretches in the places I've wanted them to. Thanks Tom. I just wanted to say this.

Thank you for the amazing content, as always. These follow alongs not only provide great material for my daily stretching exercises but also keep me motivated to keep a healthy lifestyle. 💪🏻

Another great video Tom! You explain every move so well and I encourage my friends to follow your routines to stretch particular muscle areas that are tight. Perfect length video for me. Thank you and keep up the great work 😊

this channel is my main source for stretching and also is what encouraged me to start practicing handstands. super helpful, thank you for these!

That original video is what made me subscribe and I've used it for at least 3 years. Keep them coming because you make outstanding follow alongs.

I love your stretches. Just a few tweaks to quite common stretches makes a huge difference. Thank you Tom!

These follow along videos are really helpful. I started morning stretching a week back and followed your 15min stretch video. And now I am following this video.

The original is what I do each week. It's literally the only stretching I do, and it sorts out so many of my muscle issues. I've always recommended to anyone starting a new fitness journey. Many thanks. Rob.

Tom! You made my day!! I was so sooo excited to see this. Brilliant 15 minute stretch 👏🏻 🎉 I’m definitely not your typical audience, I’m a 47 year old female dental hygienist in US. I have chronic pain and I am out of shape. Your variety of stretch videos have been life altering to me. I try to start my day with one every day. I wake up with severe neck and upper back stiffness and achiness and after one of your videos I feel great! The first one I came across was the 1 hour active flexibility. This helped alleviate tight muscle tension that had built up over 20 years. Please try to come up with more short videos with this audience in mind. I’m sure I’m not the only one. I’ve shared your channel with my chiropractor. I feel like I’m ready to start building strength not sure where to begin to avoid injury. Thank you thank you 🙏🏼 ❤❤

I like doing yoga when I need some gentle exercise, but your videos are the best thing I’ve found when I’m sore. Thank you for producing great content!

congrats on 15mil views! I love your follow alongs. your videos are the only ones that have helped me become more flexible. thank you for making these videos!

Dude! I’m so excited! I’ve been following the first routine for years. Gonna give this a try 😃

This is the first video I've done of yours and thee best stretching video I've done on KZfaq!!! Thank you so much!!

Another great routine that I'll keep on my playlist to do daily. Thanks!

Thanks for that video, Tom. I’ve been doing a lot of strength straining in the last few years but I’ve always neglected the flexibility aspect, so that video is a good starting point. Cheers 😊

Thanks so much Tom Merrick! To be honest, I checked out quite a few other stretching videos, and yours are by far the best and easiest to understand and perform. Keep up the great work man!

Always happy to see new follow along video. Thank you, Tom! Greetings from Belgrade, Serbia.

What a great addition to your streatchy, mobility library. I've been doing one of your many videos at the end of my workout routine for many years. I love the different videos which work my joints and muscles in slightly different ways to keep me a strong flexable senior. Thank you

Thank you so much for this. I just watched the beginner flexibility routine and had to sub. I decided to go through other videos and now I’m on this one. I feel so much better. Someone told me I’m not old, I don’t stretch. I’m 41. I am so glad I started. Thanks again and happy new year to everyone!

Thank you Tom for this amazing beginner stretching, helps me a lot . God bless♥️🙏♥️

This one is even better. I have been doing the follow along with the earlier one. Will keep switching between the two. Thanks for all your great videos.

Thank you Tom for all of the incredible content you make. Thanks to you I've improoved my flexi a lot :)

The original video was one of the reasons I was able to fully recover from a spinal compression fracture in 2018. Did it every day. Thank you for that. Dig the new version!

Thank you, Tom! Happy 15 million views!

thanks for making these videos, very much appreciated!

Great new video! Like many others have said, I started my flexibility journey with your first 15 minute routine. That was nearly two years ago and I'm much more flexible and strong now. A huge boon to my health. I refer friends to that video all the time!

Awesome thank you Tom. Can’t wait to adopt this. Just started running after a pretty long hiatus as well as commencing strength training and feeling all the aches and pains with it. This is going to work a treat I’m sure.

Love your follow alongs! Thanks for making another great video

Thanks for making the new one Tom. I’ve used your original 15 minute for about two years now about 2-3 times a week. Will give this a try. Best wishes-Phil from USA

Love the new video! Thank you so much! 💪

Have been using the original video for years now and its saved me from so many injuries and helped my lifts progress smoothly

I really like your video I think it’s the only video I really felt like my muscles are stretching! I will definitely be using your videos from now on. Keep up the good work! 💜💜

Thanks for the amazing content, Tom. These are helping me so much.

Hi Tom, I've been doing your stretching exercises after gym and a swim. Needless to say, they've been nothing short of a miracle. Much Love and appreciation ❤

Thanks so much Tom! I've been doing your short follow alongs for the last few weeks and what a difference!

Nice video . I start stretching daily last week and I was confused because all this videos and it Was complicated for me as a beginner . Thank you tom for this simple routine . I hope you have a good day ❤❤

Another person who has followed along to your original 15-minute stretch dozens if not hundreds of times. Congratulations, Tom!

Really enjoyed v3. Thank you for posting your videos and tutorials.

I always love your stretching videos🙌🏾

Exactly what I needed today ❤️

Great quick routine for rest days! Thanks.

Looking forward to trying out some of the variations here!! Thanks :)

Definitely my favourite version great job.

Thank you. You explain details of the movements very well and it's easy to understand.

I stumbled on your original version about two weeks ago. I have a highly -stressful desk job & don’t drink or smoke, so that stress seeps deep into my muscles. Last two weeks I’ve felt that release. I am more limber and lighter on my feet, and am in a generally better mood overall.

You've changed my life Tom and made me admire stretching

Congratulations and thanks for the follow alongs 🙂

Awesome routine, a perfect away to kick off the week after a weekend of cycling 👌

That was awosome!! so helpful and relaxing thank you✌

Don't know if you'll see this but I just want to say thanks. The last three years have been especially tough and my health and fitness fell apart. Although I was never consistent, these short routines really helped when I couldn't bring myself to do anything else. Thanks Tom.

I never realised the importance of stretching until my brother recommended one of your video. It really is relaxing especially after a workout. Thanks a lot. Bless you.

Many thanks, Tom!

These routines have been a part of my physical routine for the last 12 months - and something that we talk about quite often during the "physical" portion of our show. Look forward to sharing the newest video here with our audience as well!

This feels so good after leg day!

thank you. your videos are helping me in a big way

Thanks man, I did the original maybe 100+ times. I like this new version

Thank you very much Tom, another great vid, cheers!

Thanks for sharing this. 💪

Thank you for another great video. I have been using the original regularly for a while and was hoping for some variation. Much appreciate. Now I can alternate between the two. Would love to have even more variation.

Beginning my new life without pain in my body. Thanks man ;)

Great video. Keep up the good work! Your explanations are the best!

This routines really good, find it a bit more challenging than the original one but it builds up a sweat and use it all the time before working out to warm me up

thanks you are amazing and easy to follow along

Thank you, this is a great routine

Thank you!❤️

nice stretch routine, thank you!

i following your video for a last couple day during my studying before exam, its help me a lot, thank you 😊

I really like the way you present your videos. Doable and very effective. Thanks,

Can't wait to make this one a staple of my habits!

ive been doing your routines for 5 or 6 years now essentially since the first beginner flexibility routine @alanthrall was my first instructor but your frame and background seemed better suited to mine as i am 6’5 and about 200 pounds like you are. thank you 🙏🏼

I had started wth the first beginner rountine for the last few weeks and was using it a couple of years ago and love it, the new one I had to stopped 1/2 way because I am not flexible enough and could not come close to those stretches and went back to the first one

Thank you!

Thank you Tom!

I do this one all the time. Thanks Tom :D

Thanks!

Thank you so much you are the man 🎉

Just looked up Ardour after doing your original routine for years. Before I hand I wouldn't' of believed that I could be more impressed by you. Thank you for being you!!!

I love your flexibility routines. Maybe you could do one for Skateboarders! ❤

Thankyou Tom!!! :)

Thank you for sharing

I’ve def watched the original over 100x and shared with a bunch of friends

Best channel on KZfaq!!

Great Job 🎉thank you

Hello, I'm not a subscriber because I'm not very sporty person but I love those beginner flexibility routines and try to do them as often as possible ☺ thank you and greetings from Poland 💛

Wow encontrarme con este vídeo después de ver el otro tantos años atrás fue como encontrarse con un viejo amigo! Que bueno volver a verte en la plataforma de youtube de nuevo ;)

Thanks Tom, a great alternative workout for the stiff limbed beginners who have trouble touching their knees!!!

Pumped for this

Thank you

Great one

Great Video Tom - thanks. I have to say those elephant walks are very very challenging when you say move the left and straighten the other leg.!!! Very hard!

Thank you ❣️❣️❣️.