Yes, weight training can be an effective way to bulk you up and improve your total body strength, but yoga can also be an excellent way to strengthen the muscles creating functional strength that assists in performing everyday activities like lifting, walking, standing and sitting. So, practise these yoga asanas recommended by yoga expert Abhishek Sharma. Utkatasana…
Lie flat and pull your knees to your chest Lie on your back and bring both knees up toward your chest. Place one hand over each knee and gently pull your thighs closer to your chest. Breathing deeply, hold this position for 20 to 30 seconds. Tilt knees to right and left Lie on your back. Bring your knees to your chest, then tilt them to the right, bringing them as…
Do you know the most common complaint among weekend warriors, serious athletes, and the average recreation exerciser? Aside from being hungrier than the average person, many athletes deal with lower back pain at some point in their lives. Whether it manifests as an ache on one side, a shooting pain down the butt and legs, or general soreness in the low and mid-back…
Sit on the floor with legs straight in front of you. Start by reaching arms upwards. Gently lean forward and reach towards your toes. This stretches both the hamstrings, leg muscles, and the lower back. For a more advanced version, keep your back completely straight as you lean over. Advanced or more flexible stretchers can reach past feet. The goal is not actually…
If you have spinal stenosis of the neck, or cervical spinal stenosis, you may experience chronic pain. The pain can also limit the range of motion in your neck, which is typically the most mobile part of your spine. Exercise, particularly range of motion and spine strengthening movements, can be an important part of recovery and pain relief. Talk to your doctor or…
Hunchback or Hunched back is a condition where there is exaggerated forward rounding of the upper back. Hunchback can occur at any age; however, it commonly affects older women, where this deformity is termed as a dowager s hump. Patients having osteoporosis develop age-related hunchback. There are some types of Hunchback which affect the infants or teens. Mild hunchback…
Tight hamstring muscles are common and most of the time will not cause a problem. However they may be more prone to severe strains or contribute to other problems such as back pain. In addition to an increased injury risk tight hamstrings may affect sports performance making some techniques difficult or impossible such as in high hurdling or martial arts techniques…
Americans used to be an active bunch—baling hay, lifting boxes, scrubbing floors, and walking everywhere. No more. The Information Age has given way to the Age of Ache, and Mary Ann Wilmarth, DPT, a spokeswoman for the American Physical Therapy Association, sees it daily at Back to Back Physical Therapy in Andover, Massachusetts, where patients often seek treatment…
A 2013 photo of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau doing a yoga pose on a desk has resurfaced online in the last week. Two years ago, just before he took over the Liberal Party leadership, the politician retweeted a photo of himself showing off his peacock pose ormayurasana. Last week, on March 24, Toronto-area yoga instructor David Gellineau shared the photo…
Talk to your doctor. Always talk to your doctor prior to making any changes to a workout or starting a new workout. This is especially important if you re recovering from an injury or have had a history of a back injury. Always get clearance from your doctor before starting to work your back. Ask her when you can start exercise, what type of exercise, what resistance…
Happy families are all alike,Tolstoy wrote. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The same thing— or something quite similar—might be said of our backs. As long as they re back there doing their job, holding us up and keeping us mobile, we usually don t give them too much thought; we can t even see them. We take them for granted. They re just backs—our…
World Yoga Day: Yoga Asanas And Their Benefit For Students New Delhi: International Yoga Day is here and while the world is busy participating in yoga camps and posting selfies, we have decided to focus on the benefits of yoga for students. Yes, inculcating the good habit of practicing yoga at a young age can prove to do wonders for young children in schools. In modern…
Sedentary work, lack of exercise, unhealthy food habits and stress contribute to a wider waist, flabby tummy and higher level of health problems. It’s hard to get rid of the stubborn belly fat. Sometimes, even after maintaining a healthy lifestyle and working out daily, the belly fat refuses to budge. You need to switch to healthy food without any junks and practice…
Solution: Muscle-building strength routine and cardio If you have a thin, straight frame, you re probably the envy of your girlfriends, but thanks to the grass-is-always-greener principle, you long for more curves. And while you may not need to lose weight, there s serious risk attached to the term skinny fat (having a high body-fat percentage despite a low or normal…
Related Articles Continued This method – sometimes also referred to as Vinyasa Flow, or just Flow owing to the smooth way that the poses flow one into the other, like a dance – is fast catching up as one of the most popular forms of Yoga in the West. The Sun Salutation sequence is the basic and simplest example of Vinyasa Yoga. In every sequence of vinyasa yoga poses…
From someone who has endured low back pain the better part of 30-plus years, I understand how debilitating it can be. There were times when my back hurt so badly that I couldn t stand or walk. The only remedy, or so I thought, was rest. Now I know better. I ve spent the last 2-1/2 years studying for my associate s degree in physical therapy. And after learning more…
