Pray often. Eat your veggies. Move your body. Love yourself + others.
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It might not sound as exciting as a HIIT workout, but I’m here to tell you mobility exercises need to be part of your fitness routine {especially if you are doing HIIT workouts}.
You guys have been asking for a post-workout, cool down routine on the blog; these eight mobility exercises are exactly that.
Stretching and lengthening muscles that get compressed during HIIT and strength training workouts. Focusing specifically on the lower body, releasing tight hips and hamstrings which tend to lead to lower back pain.
I like to look at muscle development in 3 ways:
Increase flexibility and mobility while decreasing muscle soreness, and recovery time with this 5-minute mobility workout.
These eight yoga poses are designed to release tight hips and hamstrings making it a a great post-workout cool down routine, or daily stretching routine.
Flow through each exercise as it feels good for your body, striving to hold what might feel like a slightly uncomfortable position for 30 seconds. I suggest setting a timer for accountability.
See the workout video above for a demonstration of each mobility exercise.
*Start with hands on the ground and work towards dropping to your forearms as you increase mobility and range of motion. You can always use a yoga block for assistance as well.
Muscle recovery is an important part of fitness that’s not talked about as often as the workouts you do during ‘on’ days. But there’s a reason you hear serious fitness enthusiasts talk about ‘rest days’ and ‘active rest days’ — your body needs time and resources to recover.
Mobility is your bodies ability to demonstrate a full range of motion through different joints. Often we strive to increase mobility to increase or range of motion; to go deeper in a squat for example. Increasing mobility is also a key component of injury prevention.
When you have limited mobility, you are less likely to use proper form throughout an exercise. Therefore, more likely to wind up with an injury.
Additionally, our unique bodies hold on to stress differently — you might feel a tightness in your neck and shoulders after a particularly hard week, or wake up with a sore jaw after a night of unconscious clenching. We also can hold stress and tension in our hips and hamstrings — this is why you may have heard a yoga instructor talk about releasing negative emotions and stress through hip-opening exercises!
I hope you find this 5-minute mobility workout a useful resource as post-workout cool down routine; increasing range of motion and muscle recovery, while preventing injury and low back pain.
I frequently get asked what I eat before a workout, but what you eat after a workout is important too! In fact, post-workout nutrition can help reduce muscle soreness and enhance recovery {*Healthline}.
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*This post does include affiliate links to Primal Kitchen®. All words and opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting Nourish Move Love, making the content you see on this blog possible.
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