The muscles of the hips help provide support to the spine and abdominals. When you have strong, open hips, you can hope for better posture, improved circulation, and overall better alignment. Below are 5 yoga poses that help improve mobility across your hips.
Full-Body Cool Down Stretches You Can Do After Any Workout
Stretching plays a vital role in our overall health. Our muscles and joints need stretching in order to remain flexible and strong. This is especially important before doing any type of physical exercise. If you don’t stretch and warm up your muscles, you risk injuring yourself during your workout. But just as equally important is doing cool down stretches.
Just as you warm your muscles and joints up to prep them for more vigorous activity, you need to give your muscles time to cool down after a workout. But why do you need to cool down your muscles when you worked so hard to get them all warmed up?
There’s one simple answer: You don’t want your muscles to cramp up or be stiff after working out. This is likely to happen if you don’t cool down, due to lactic acid build-up.
Who wants to go around limping in pain, right?
So, how do you make sure you don’t get that post-exercise pain?
Cool down stretches.
Fitness expert Chloe Ting shares a short, simple routine you can follow after any type of physical exercise. This routine features a series of cool down stretches that will ease your body into its normal state and aid with muscle recovery.
She uses basic yoga poses, so get your mat out!
Extra 10 minutes = thankful body and better muscle recovery
Take the Lean Arms Challenge With Chloe Ting [VIDEO]
Is being locked down at home messing with your diet and metabolism? Haven’t been able to get much exercise done? Here’s a fitness challenge that you will appreciate. It’s certainly got more worth than the silly social media challenges we have been seeing a lot lately! [Read more…] about Take the Lean Arms Challenge With Chloe Ting [VIDEO]
Full-Body Cool Down Stretches You Can Do After Any Workout [VIDEO]
Stretching plays a vital role in our overall health. Our muscles and joints need stretching in order to remain flexible and strong. This is especially important before doing any type of physical exercise. If you don’t stretch and warm up your muscles, you risk injuring yourself during your workout. But just as equally important is doing cool down stretches.
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Positive Psychology and Martial Arts
Martial arts trainers believe that kids enhance self-discipline and responsibility by training martial arts. This kind of sport influences the child’s development and social skills, improves concentration, develops respect and self-esteem, and helps them learn to fight for their own goals. It will influence the learning of healthy habits, reduces stress and nervousness, develops tolerance, and are a good basis for other sports.
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Pilates And Its Many Ways Of Healing
If you’re looking for the ways to mend both your mind and body, then you should look no further than Pilates. Developed in the 1920s by Joseph Pilates, this form of exercising offers much more than people usually think.
Not only can it heal your body, by providing it the much-needed strengthening through performing various Pilates movements, but it can also help your mind in numerous different ways.
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