Sentences with phrase «lengthening tight muscles»

For some, yoga is just an exercise to treat the physical form; lengthening tight muscles using leverage and body weight to get a desired stretch.

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Feel the tight, more rigid muscles soften and give less resistance as you encourage this lovely lengthening of the limbs.

Sure enough my Rolfer immediately went to work on my knees, ankles and feet releasing the tight muscles and lengthening the tendons.

The following series of Pilates exercises can help lengthen and open up tight areas of the body all while strengthening and supporting deep intrinsic postural muscles to create awareness of ideal alignment.

Like any other area in the body, some of the muscles may be tight and need to soften and lengthen, and others may be weak and require strengthening.

This is somewhat obvious but spending greater time in the stretched position while staying tight and learning how to co-contract reciprocal muscle groups (during eccentric lengthening) is one of the most effective methods for enhancing mobility.

And even though a study shows that keeping full range of motion while lifting weights may increase flexibility, McCall says muscles can lose the ability to lengthen and become tight.

The basic approach of Elise Browning Miller, she notes on her excellent Web site (www.ebmyoga.com), is to focus on lengthening the spine, stretching muscles that have become tight, and strengthening muscles that have become weak.

The following Yoga asanas, also known as poses, help to engage, lengthen and release the tight iliopsoas muscles.

Tight hip flexors create an imbalance that causes the gluteal muscles to lengthen and relax, allowing the hip flexors to gain dominance.

A well - balanced practice for scoliosis should include poses that lengthen your spine, poses that stretch tight muscles and strengthen weak muscles, and poses that help counteract the rotation in the spine and rib cage.

My focus is on lengthening the spine, stretching muscles that have become tight, and strengthening muscles that have become weak.

My approach is to lengthen the spine, stretch muscles that have become tight, and strengthen muscles that have grown weak.

That is one of the things that we're going to be specifically working on and looking at in this next webinar: which are the muscle groups that are tight and short and how the fascia that goes along with those muscles needs to be stretched and lengthened back out.

Overhead pressing is a more natural movement for the shoulders and will help to strengthen and lengthen certain muscles that the bench press causes to become short and tight.

Massage therapy breaks down scar tissue, releases tight fascia, lengthens shortened muscles, promotes lymphatic drainage, flushes toxins from oxygen - deprived muscles and can temporarily make joints unstable and more vulnerable.