Sentences with phrase «upper chest open»

Move your hips forward to vertical over your knees, tuck your tailbone to release your lower back, and lift your middle and upper chest open with your breath.

Use your exhales to twist your middle and upper chest open to the side until your shoulders are stacked vertical.

Not exact matches

Why it's effective: As you push your buttocks and upper legs off the floor, your chest and shoulders naturally fall into a more open position.

To maximize the opening in your chest and upper spine, inhale and pull your shoulders gently back as you arch.

Now that you are firmly rooted, you will have a sense of support from which you can expand through your upper body and open your chest.

Simply place blankets, pillows or a stack of books near the wall to support the back waist, pelvis or both and then allow your upper back to lie on the floor, opening and releasing the chest.

You've probably also noticed that (open or obvious) steroid users have abnormally large shoulders, traps, and pecs (and upper chests in particular).

It will stretch your outer hips and thighs and open the front of your shoulders and chest while building up strength in your upper - back muscles.

Open your chest by actively expanding its core to create a dynamic sense of space that both deepens the twist and wrings out tension from the upper back.

To further elongate your spine and open your upper chest, press your shins back more strongly.

And the kettlebell swing will force you to use all the muscles in your upper back, thus opening up your chest and forcing you out of the slouchy shoulder look that screams insecurity.

It also creates a quiet chest opening, like that of Savasana (Corpse Pose), especially broadening through the collarbones and the front of the shoulders when the upper back is supported.

Short breaths to the upper chest characterize this incorrect breathing — so open up (your diaphragm, that is), and take a long, deep breath!

On the exhalation, roll the upper arms back toward the wall, opening the chest between the sternum and shoulder.

The following sequence offers poses that are helpful for opening the chest and stretching and relaxing the upper back and neck.

The upper chest will lift off the ground and opens forward.

In order to create the extension in your legs and the lift in your chest that will allow you to open into all the glory of the full Vasisthasana variation shown here, you'll need to create heat in your upper back, fire up your core strength, and create space in your hips and hamstrings.

Stretch the upper back, spine, and shoulders; opens the chest; help release chronic tension in the shoulders and neck in Extended Puppy Pose.

- Open hips and inner thighs, for «side splits» - Legs and feet to extend out rather than being «scrunched» - Hip hinge, project chest forward in between your hands - Hands on ground to start - Rolling variant with hands in front of knees, alternate back arching - Sidebending variant reaching side to side - Arms straight on the ground and reaching out - Coordinate upper and lower body

As you extend your hips back and up, move your shoulder blades in toward your chest and push your chest toward your thighs — actions that will help to open your upper back and shoulders.

It increases flexibility of the spine while opening the upper shoulders and chest.

To get even more height in your pelvis and begin to open your chest, roll your upper arms outward, tuck your outer shoulders in toward your midline, and come up onto the top of your shoulders, just as you would for Sarvangasana (Shoulderstand).

When you master the art of opening your upper spine and chest fully in Camel Pose, it does much more than just free your neck: It also helps protect your lower back from compression and improves nearly every other aspect of the posture.

As a result the upper part of the stomach protrudes through the weak opening in diaphragm into the chest cavity (thorax).

In both scenarios, you're not opening the chest and strengthening the upper back and you're missing an opportunity to counteract the habitual posture of slumping forward.

Target your upper back for placement of the bag or clothing, allowing your neck to decompress, upper back to relax, chest to open, and legs to relax on the ground for support.

With a high neckline which includes a two - button closure behind the neck and a keyhole of fringed lace opening over the chest to create a scalloped V - neck, this dress is complete with lace present on all sides of the upper half.