Stretching during yoga practice can relieve pain, detoxify, enhance sexual function, and has countless indirect therapeutic effects. It also helps prevent injuries, relieve muscle stiffness, and shape muscle lines. BUT As the saying goes: "If your muscles are too short when you get old, you won't live long!" In the past, muscle atrophy mostly occurred in the elderly, but with the popularization of computers in the past decade or so, muscle atrophy has occurred in young and middle-aged people and even students who work and study at a desk for a long time. Self-test: Are your muscles shrunk? Stand up straight, then turn your head and look over your shoulder at your heels. Can you see them? If you not only can't see it, but also feel pain in your neck and back, then you may have contracted muscles. Other symptoms: 1. Tight and painful neck; 2. Stiff and painful waist; 3. Inability to bend over; 4. Tight and painful back; 5. Leg pain and paralysis; 6. Inability to squat; 7. Different lengths of legs; 8. Radiating traction pain in the heel tendons; 9. Small steps, close walking; 10. A feeling of tension in the ligaments of the hip joint; 11. The thighs can neither be lifted nor stretched horizontally; 12. Inflexible body; 13. Muscle contraction and atrophy; 14. The hands cannot be flexed or extended (the tendons of the hands are shortened); 15. Inability to move the hands, feet, elbows, and knees smoothly. The harm of muscle shrinkage is far beyond imagination If you suffer from muscle contracture, the range of joint movement will be reduced, for example, you will not be able to turn your head, bend over, or stretch your knees when you lift your legs. In addition, contracted tendons can also compress the nerves and cause pain, compress and squeeze the blood vessels, causing insufficient blood supply, malnutrition of tendons and veins, numbness, convulsions and a series of other symptoms. Muscle contraction in different parts of the body can also cause different diseases. For example, dizziness, headache, and neck and shoulder pain can be caused by contraction of the neck and shoulder muscles; chest tightness, back pain, and fatigue can be caused by contraction of the chest and back muscles; sore waist, weak knees, pain and numbness in the buttocks and lower limbs can be caused by contraction of the waist, buttocks, and thigh muscles. Even the most common headache caused by being exposed to wind or cold is caused by contraction of the muscles in the head. Muscle atrophy occurs very slowly, and many people develop symptoms without realizing it. When there is no improvement or only partial efficacy, it is probably muscle atrophy that is the culprit. Teach you a set of yoga stretching techniques - Neck stretch - ▼ Key points of the movement: Put your hands behind your back, interlock your fingers, extend your hands downward, pull your shoulders down, stay for about 1 minute, and maintain smooth breathing; lower your head to look at your navel, turn to the lower left, and then to the lower right, stay in each direction for 1 minute. ▼ Stretching tips: Do not lock your elbows. Use your shoulders to turn backwards and open the front of your chest to stretch your shoulders and neck. Do not push your lumbar spine forward. ▼ Applicable people: office workers who use computers for a long time, drivers, etc. ▼ Xiaojian’s feedback: You can stretch the back muscles, abdominal muscles, side muscles, torsion muscles, front arm muscles, back arm muscles, and you can feel obvious feelings from both sides of the neck to the shoulders, as well as directly behind the neck. It is also easy to operate and you can do it while sitting there! - Wrist stretch - ▼ Key points: Place your palms on the table, stretch the front muscles of your wrists, and stay for about 3 minutes. ▼ Stretching tips: If your fingers cannot be completely turned towards you at the beginning, you can stretch them outwards first, and then slowly continue after the muscles on the front of your hand relax. ▼ Applicable people: People who use computers all day long and need to use their wrists repeatedly for a long time, such as programmers, editors, dentists, etc. The tendons on the front of the arm can be stretched and the muscles on the front of the wrist can be relaxed. This movement is only on the hand, so it can be combined with other stretching movements, such as stretching the neck left and right. - Wall Shoulder Pull- ▼ Key points of the exercise: Stand with your feet apart, raise your hands to the wall as high as your shoulders, place your hands on the wall, relax your body between your hands, stretch your shoulders, and stay for about 3 minutes. ▼ Stretching tips: If you feel back pain, gently roll your tailbone inward and stretch the front of your abdomen. ▼ Applicable people: office workers, chefs and other people who use one side to work for a long time. You can stretch your back muscles, front arm muscles and back arm muscles, and you can feel it in your upper back, back of your legs, around your shoulders and arms, and from your armpits to the sides of your body. - Standing Twist- ▼ Key points: Put your feet together, inhale, put your right hand on your left shoulder, put the back of your left hand on the right back of your waist, exhale, twist your body to the left, and repeat 10 times on each side. ▼ Stretching tips: For those who feel uncomfortable, the distance between the feet can be one and a half times the width of the shoulders. ▼ Applicable people: People with shoulder and neck pain, indigestion, and those who sit or stand for long periods of time. It can actually stretch your flexor muscles, and stretch your shoulders, sides of the body, and lower back. |
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