5-Pose Yoga Fix: Stronger Quads
At the simplest, our quadriceps are responsible for straightening the knee. But this group of four muscles on the front of the thigh works together with other muscles like the hamstrings and glutes...
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5-Pose Yoga Fix: Stretches to Combat Sitting Too Much
Sitting is regularly called the new smoking. It’s no wonder: Too much of it causes our digestion to drop off, leaves us sluggish, tightens our shoulders, back, hips, hamstrings and chest. Yoga can...
5-Pose Yoga Fix: Stretches for Walkers
Walking can be an easy way to build fitness and enjoy the great outdoors, but the repetitive motion can tighten muscles, particularly the hips, hamstrings and lower back. Practicing a few yoga poses...
5-Pose Yoga Fix: Yoga for Sciatica Relief
A pain in the butt, low back, hips or back of the legs may be sciatica. Our sciatic nerves — we have two of them, one for each leg — run from our lower spine down through our glute muscles, down...
5-Pose Yoga Fix: Stretches to Open Your Shoulders
The average human head weighs 12–15 pounds — hat tip to the kid from “Jerry Maguire” — and the typical workday tapping on a computer or phone draws our focus and our head forward so we can...