Thank you for every time I meet you and Iyengar! Twist – where the ribs move in different directions relative to the hip, or vice versa
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To understand this problem, let’s twist a towel: in the picture below, the upper hand represents the ribs, the lower hand represents the crotch, and the blue towel in the middle is the narrow sense of “core” – abdominal muscles and fascia
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There is no torsion in the figure below, because the ribs and crotch face in the same direction The ribs and crotch rotate relative to each other, and you can see that the blue towel obviously twists
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Ideally, the twisting posture uses the same method to activate the abdominal muscles, but many people bypass the most needed exercise because of the limitations of their physical conditions: twist the abdominal muscles like a towel, so as to make the abdominal muscles flexible and soft
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Now let’s take a look at an example
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Here is a hard student; But no matter how hard a person is, some parts of his body are flexible
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For example, his neck can rotate very well, and his arm can rotate very well
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Look, these two combinations are twisting, right? Short oil, it looks good! But how can you cheat you this yoga person, smart you must say: This is obviously false! If the elephant god on his T-shirt doesn’t move, it means his ribs don’t move either; Of course, it must be a false twist: there is no twist of the spine at all, just how to calculate the twist of the arm and neck, which has no effect on the core of the abdominal muscles
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So the next one, how about the twist: this twist is also fake! If your thoracic vertebra is inflexible, but you use a great force to rotate your chest to “go deeper” and enter the torsion, the rotation will come from the wrong position of the spine
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In this way, not only the abdominal muscles do not participate in the torsion well, but the lumbar spine will have a lot of compression, which is a very unsafe practice
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But this fake twist is very common in yoga classrooms
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It looks like a deep twist, but you can see that the chest in the picture above is upward and backward – one turning point is the lumbar spine, the other turning point is the cervical spine: the head turns more than the chest, and the eyes turn more than the head; The thoracic vertebra is still fixed in place, and the abdomen is not involved at all
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The following twist is a good twist, which can exercise the core twist: although it is not very deep, you can see that his spine is vertical, and the twist is evenly distributed on the whole spine
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The God like direction on the T-shirt tells us that there is a rotation of the ribs relative to the crotch
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A twist like this works the spine and abdominal muscles at the same time
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OK, practice; The core exercises are not just the small videos you see about belly curling exercises, but also the boat style exercises; If you can’t do a good turn around, what else can you talk about? Insist on practicing yoga, is the best pet of your body! Step on the yoga mat, wish you sweat, step down the yoga mat, wish you beautiful, adhere to yoga, shape yourself, you want, years will give you
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come on
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Aijia regimen will always accompany you
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Yoga is not only an hour on the mat, but also 23 hours in your life
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Bringing the Yoga state on the mat into your life is the real way to live with Aijia..
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