kat999 |
12-18-2010 05:24 PM |
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Originally Posted by shasha12
(Post 3612673)
what are you doing to get there?
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Right now, I have a daily routine to stretch/strengthen areas where I'm not so limber. For example, I have a very limber lower back for some reason, but my legs and arms are not in as good of shape, so I do 30 seconds of plank pose every day and am soon going to build up to 40 seconds, then 50, then a full minute, and so on. For my hamstrings, I'm doing forward standing bend for 30 seconds, and I started out holding my hands at my thighs, then knees, then shins, and now I'm at my ankles/tops of my feet. I'll soon progress to putting my hands to floor, and then building to keeping my hands flat on the floor, increasing time, etc. Once I have mastered the hands-to-floor, I'm moving on to adding splits training by starting with lunges held a certain number of seconds, as well as working on nose-to-knee bends lying supine on the floor.
I do these on top of doing yoga/pilates/ballet at least four hours a week. I especially like these types of workouts that utilize a stability ball, because you can really flex into a lot more poses with one of those, plus it's useful for strength training.
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