Quadratus Lumborum: Long Name, Pain in the Back.
The quadratus lumborum (QL) is actually an ab muscle that is located IN our lower back (either side of the spine). It connects our lowest rib to our pelvis and is used to sit, stand and walk. It contributes to spinal stability and helps us to bend sideways and extend our back as well as helping to stabilise our ribs and assisting our diaphragm with inhalation. Because of this, and its location, the QL is one of the prime sources of lower back pain.
Help Protect your Back and Knees be Addressing Tight Quads
In our daily lives of sitting, walking and running, our quads can get tight and cause issues in our backs and knees. These mobility, foam rolling and yoga techniques will help you to loosen them and help restore your posture and movement.
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.