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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The answer to how long you should stretch to increase your flexibility will depend on your flexibility goals and how far along you are in your flexibility training. I will address those two aspects of the question and then give you an overview of what you can expect as far as how long it will …
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Bodyweight core workouts are still my staple, along with flexibility training. They yield the most result in the least amount of time! I am pretty proud of my abs after less than a year and a half. All you need is to say consistent with 15-30 minute bodyweight workouts 5-6 times a week. For more, …
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