This pistol squats for beginners routine is just as much meant to help you as it is meant to help me (like many other posts I write). If getting your pistol squat is not one of your goals, you may use this progression as a lower-body workout. It is super effective! Pistol squats are one …
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Today’s follow-along routine includes yoga poses for flexibility attainable for beginners. Furthermore, we will spend less time in each pose since beginners tend to feel discomfort faster. I will give all the basic cueing that beginners need and some cueing that those who are more advanced will find helpful to make each yoga pose more …
Today, I will provide you with my favorite lower body mobility exercises. I rediscovered mobility training recently after putting it aside for over a year. Here’s why: I purchased a program that included many mobility exercises when I started training to do the splits. Makes sense! Mobility training is an excellent all-in-one tool that targets …
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Back flexibility and strength go hand in hand. Whether you want to achieve yoga poses like the wheel or eliminate back pain and reduce the risk of injury, you will find that doing regular lower back strengthening exercises is key as well as improving your back flexibility. Yoga has transformed how I move my body. …
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When people think of mindfulness, they often think about meditation and are under the impression that it means you have to stop thinking. It’s not the case! Mindfulness means that you become an observer. You learn to cultivate awareness. Mindfulness and yoga can work together to enable you to practice mindfulness. Today, I explain what …
Why would you want to focus on your quads with a follow-along routine devoted to yoga stretches for quads? Well, simply because it is more common than you think to be tight in the quads. I can now do the front splits and get pretty deep in my pancake and backends. Yet, I still find …
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You don’t have to be flexible to do yoga but yoga will improve your flexibility. In fact, many flexibility exercises that are not called yoga are actually based on yoga poses. I discovered yoga after the age of 40 (read Starting Yoga at 40 or Later: Everything You Need to Know to learn more). Yoga …
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I started yoga for flexibility at the age of 44 because I wanted to do the splits. I had absolutely no experience and had never ever done the splits before. Guess what? After about 6 months of daily training, I managed to get into the splits (couldn’t stay there long, mind you). So, I persisted …
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So, you are wondering Am I too old to be flexible? Do I need a whole blog post to answer NO!? I don’t, but there are some considerations you can take into account to improve your flexibility later in life. I learned to do the splits and increase my overall flexibility at the age of …
After increasing my flexibility enough to get into the front splits at the age of 44, my next goal was to stretch for back flexibility. Mainly, I wanted to do a strong wheel pose (with the one-legged wheel as a future goal). I have been trying all kinds of back flexibility stretches since I started …
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