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Restorative yoga moves to help improve your mobility
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Fitness
Restorative yoga moves to help improve your mobility
Nike master trainer Eva Redpath comes to the rescue with three moves to help stretch the muscles in your quads, open up your hip area and improve balance and flexibility.
Recovery is an integral component of any training regimen, and this regenerative yoga sequence can be done after a run to improve mobility and practise mental focus and intentional breathing.
1. DANCER'S POSE
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Stand comfortably with your hands at your sides.
1. Lift your right foot behind you and take hold of the instep with your right hand while extending your left arm forward.
2. Fixing your gaze beyond your fingertips, exhale and gently extend your right foot upward and backward while pressing it into your palm.
3. Focus on stretching through the front of your right hip and thigh. hold for five deep breaths. Repeat on the opposite side.
2. LOW LUNGE TO HALF SPLIT
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Begin on your hands and knees in a tabletop position. If you have any knee pain, place a folded towel under your knees.
1. Inhale as you step your right leg into a lunge, placing your foot between your hands and your right knee above your right ankle.
2. lift your torso and Place your hands on your hips. Draw your belly button inward and pull your shoulders downward and backward to open your chest. Hold for five deep breaths.
3. Bring your hands back to the floor. Exhale while shifting your hips backward, aligning them with your left knee. tuck your left toes. Straighten your right leg, flexing your right foot.
3. PIGEON
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Sit cross-legged on the floor.
1. Swing your right leg around, straightening it behind you with the top of your foot against the floor. Keep your left leg bent in front of you.
2. Keeping your hands at the sides of your hips, draw your belly button inward and pull your shoulders downward and backward to open your chest. Hold for five deep breaths. Repeat with your left leg.
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