![]() ![]() While forward bends can be relaxing, introspective poses that promote back health, they can also cause strain or injury―especially if the backs of your legs are tight. ![]() By pulling gently toward your legs, your arm muscles will flex your elbows while the muscles around your rib cage engage to stabilize, protract, and upwardly rotate your shoulder blades.Your hip flexors engage and your quadriceps muscles extend your knees to stabilize the bend.When your upper body releases to gravity, your spinal extensors (the muscles attached to the back of your spine that enable standing and lifting) and latissimus dorsi (the largest back muscle, which protects and stabilizes your spine and contributes to back and shoulder strength) are stretched.As your weight is brought forward, your ankle dorsiflexors engage, stabilizing your feet and ankles further into dorsiflexion. ![]()
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