How to Help Prevent the Most Common Sporting Injury
https://www.healthline.com/health/tight-hamstring#yoga
Hamstrings are the most common sports injury and they take a long time to heal and often recur. Help prevent this by loosening your hamstrings by using some these exercises.
Is sitting all day giving you tight pecs?
The ‘lats’ are one of the largest muscles in your back and helps protect and stabilize the spine while giving your back and shoulder strength.
Because they attached to the shoulder, the shoulder blades, the arm, the ribs and the spine, tight lats can affect our posture, our back and our shoulders causing back pain, neck pain and shoulder pain.
Can Exercise Make You Smarter?
When you ask someone why they are exercising they’ll tell you, they want to look good in a bikini or lose weight or get buff.
But what about our brains?
When was the last time you heard someone say they are exercising to get a bigger brain?!
Can exercise actually make us smarter?
Well, research has found that exercise can enhance how we think and improve our memory.
Tight Lats - The connection between your arms, shoulders and spine.
The ‘lats’ are one of the largest muscles in your back and helps protect and stabilize the spine while giving your back and shoulder strength.
Because they attached to the shoulder, the shoulder blades, the arm, the ribs and the spine, tight lats can affect our posture, our back and our shoulders causing back pain, neck pain and shoulder pain.
The Benefits of Green Exercise
When compared to exercising indoors, exercising in nature has been found to generate feelings of positive engagement, greater feelings of revitalisation, reduced tension, decreased anger and depression and increased energy.
One of the more amazing findings was that for improvements in self-esteem and mood, the greatest improvement occurred in the first 5 minutes…yes FIVE MINUTES! This suggests that the effects are almost immediate.
So ditch the gym or yoga studio and try an outdoor class
Combine the benefits of exercise or yoga with being outdoors. Join a group and socialise, too![