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The best exercises to regain or gain flexibility
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No matter how much sport we do, our muscles will not develop in the same way if we do not also exercise elasticity
Do you bend down to pick something up from the ground and feel like you don’t get there in a single movement? You don’t have to be a yogi so that our bones do not rattle every time we make a movement more abrupt than the others, but it does have a lot to do with the flexible of your body.
The ability to bend our body with ease without danger of hurting ourselves is linked to good training. Gloria Morales, promoter in Spain of Ballet Fit, says that one of the things that is learned in this discipline is that the training that is decided to do to keep in shape has to have a specific base focused on the elasticity, which is what will allow us the mobility of our body.
«When we start training we are thinking about wanting to tone muscles or lose fat, but we tend to forget the importance of flexible to be able to develop this work well ”, explains the expert. Apparently, our muscles will not develop in the same way if we do not also exercise the elasticity and the bodies of those who do not work this have a rigid body, and there is no projection of movement. «The human body does not understand muscles, but movement, and to keep us agile and not injure ourselves. Without a worked flexibility, you could possibly injure yourself », says Gloria Morales.
Flexibility increases with work and it is lost with age and lack of training. For women it is even more fundamental because our body is much more changeable than that of men. «At Ballet Fit we think about aging as much as possible. If we only think about gaining muscle mass, you will probably get injured by that rough training habit. However, if I work on flexibility and I drop a bag on the ground and I bend over for it, I will lower my back without it hurting, ”says the creator of Ballet Fit in Spain.
And the best time to gain flexibility in a workout is to warm up and cool down. Bill Gloria Morales which as a warm-up and the end of a fitness routine is ideal to avoid injuries. “Elasticity exercises are important to be able to move lightly. The difference between a person who trains from the elasticity and another that does not, is in being able to get up after a fall because he knows his movements ».
Exercises to gain flexibility
Back. Leaning on the wall, lower your back from the scapulae making a C. At the same time, try to slide your hands down the wall as you go down until you touch the ground.
Legs. When you are sitting in an office chair or at home, stretch your legs and flex them immediately, so that they stretch while your hands grip below the knees.
Another exercise that never fails is to bring one of your legs to a surface, as it appears in the image, and try to reach the foot with both hands.
An infallible exercise to win flexible on the back and legs is to lie on our back and bring the knee as close to the chest and stay in that position for one or two minutes.
To gain elasticity in the quadricepsDo the famous stride exercise, but instead of trying to do a right angle of 90 degrees, try to lower as much as you can so that this area of the body stretches.