How’s everyone doing? What stretches and movements did you experiment with other the last few weeks? Hows your body feeling? Do a little check in each day to see how and what impacts your body. Email us if you feel something specific and we can work to include it in our series.
In this blog, we will start to investigate the hips and hamstrings. Sitting creates many different opportunities for our body to be in awkward positions. Typically the hips and knees bend in close to a 90 degree angle. This causes the hamstrings (on the back of the leg) and hip flexors (on the front of the hips) to hang out in a shortened position. Then add in crossing the legs, wearing a wallet in the back pocket or the feet not touching the floor and other alignment issues appear.

For this week, lets keep things simple. Take time every hour or two to simply stand up. Think of what a give this gives those hips and hamstrings! When you stand up, take a few minutes to swing the legs back and forth, one at a time, march in place and maybe even a few circles of the leg out to the sides. This will help to loosen the muscles and give them a chance to stretch out.

As various parts of your body start to “feel” pay attention. Give them some TLC and you will do wonders for keeping your alignment going in a positive direction.
by Lisa Martin, owner and personal trainer at Salvere Health and Fitness. To contact, email lisa@SalvereHealthandFitness.com or call 410.707.0055.
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