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2017
KAPOTASANA
What's really interesting here is finding places of weakness, tightness, or asymmetry, and targeting it directly. If something's out of whack, we gotta build both the length and the strength to put it back. So first things first, we we have to FEEEEL the asymmetry, but then we begin to introduce actions that encourage symmetry. When I practice I don't always know how to do that! Regularly at the gym, I play around with strength building concepts and overlay them onto poses. You've seen a bunch of them so far in this feed, right? #
So much of the practice of yoga is *strength building*-- the front body needs to both *lengthen* and work. Same with the front of the legs, the back of the thorax, back of the legs, pretty much everything.
This will keep your thighs forward enough that the spine can mobilize in all of its different places (not just the low back) and you can research the posture further, for longer.
Pretty great post deadlifts and cleans 🙂 Grab a pvc pipe!
HIPS: there is a real effort keep the navel over the hips and the hips over the knees for as long as possible so as to give the spine a chance to lengthen and circularize. You're not trying to rest on the ball so much as gesture forward from it.
SPINE: the key is finding an anchored and stretching front body -- floating ribs in, coccyx down, lower spine extended, upper spine extended, back muscles engaged.
The spine goes up up up.
SHOULDERS: To move from an extended shoulder joint to a flexed shoulder joint, you just take your arms from down to up... except for our purposes, it requires scapular protraction (wide) , upward rotation (bottom of the blade in to the rib) , and some elevation (just enough to stretch!) ... WTF: first part getting easy? In the second part, I'm using a resistance band to move from a flexed elbow to an extended elbow in a manner that strengthens the tricep. A stable shoulder girdle is essential for longevity in this posture (and practice)!
What's really interesting here is finding places of weakness, tightness, or asymmetry, and targeting it directly. If something's out of whack, we gotta build both the length and the strength to put it back. So first things first, we we have to FEEEEL the asymmetry, but then we begin to introduce actions that encourage symmetry. When I practice I don't always know how to do that! Regularly at the gym, I play around with strength building concepts and overlay them onto poses. You've seen a bunch of them so far in this feed, right? #
So much of the practice of yoga is *strength building*-- the front body needs to both *lengthen* and work. Same with the front of the legs, the back of the thorax, back of the legs, pretty much everything.
This will keep your thighs forward enough that the spine can mobilize in all of its different places (not just the low back) and you can research the posture further, for longer.
Pretty great post deadlifts and cleans 🙂 Grab a pvc pipe!
HIPS: there is a real effort keep the navel over the hips and the hips over the knees for as long as possible so as to give the spine a chance to lengthen and circularize. You're not trying to rest on the ball so much as gesture forward from it.
SPINE: the key is finding an anchored and stretching front body -- floating ribs in, coccyx down, lower spine extended, upper spine extended, back muscles engaged.
The spine goes up up up.
SHOULDERS: To move from an extended shoulder joint to a flexed shoulder joint, you just take your arms from down to up... except for our purposes, it requires scapular protraction (wide) , upward rotation (bottom of the blade in to the rib) , and some elevation (just enough to stretch!) ... WTF: first part getting easy? In the second part, I'm using a resistance band to move from a flexed elbow to an extended elbow in a manner that strengthens the tricep. A stable shoulder girdle is essential for longevity in this posture (and practice)!
2018
1 MIN HOLLOWBACK
Psoas/quad stretch @ :30
Thanks @lorenzo_inversus for this great drill!
in image@lorenza_inverus thanks for this great drill!
@lorenza_inversus thanks for this great drill!
@lorenza_inversus thanks for this great drill!
Burpee handstands
fancy RDL
1
2
3
2019
hanging L-Sit holds 4x
max hold
(30 sec rest)
max hold
(30 sec rest)
strength on strength
makes length @carsonclaycalhoun see the straps
in my hands?
that’s prolly my fave way to use them
makes length @carsonclaycalhoun see the straps
in my hands?
that’s prolly my fave way to use them
in imagesee the straps in my hands?
that's prolly my fave way to use them
strength on strength makes length
@carsonclaycalhoun
see the straps in my hands?
that's prolly my fave way to use them
strength on strength makes length
@carsonclaycalhoun
that's prolly my fave way to use them
strength on strength makes length
@carsonclaycalhoun
see the straps in my hands?
that's prolly my fave way to use them
strength on strength makes length
@carsonclaycalhoun
I LIKE TO
ROLL JOINTS
ROLL JOINTS
YOU KNOW, LIKE YA DO
2025
in imageKNEE OPENS TO THE
KNEE IS GOING TO FLEX UP TOWARDS YOUR ABILITY
THEN KEEP EVERYTHING HIGH AS YOU IT BEHIND YOU.
KNEE IS GOING TO FLEX UP TOWARDS YOUR ABILITY
THEN KEEP EVERYTHING HIGH AS YOU IT BEHIND YOU.
in imageBasically, recruiting tissue that would allow for "proper" shoulder ER
Yielding Isometrics
... this time finishing with an active isometric
Yielding Isometrics
... this time finishing with an active isometric
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