Become more flexible
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Flexibility is a critical issue but not many people focus on it. With a flexibility diminishes further. Flexibility is also a big issue in case of people who sit for most of the day and also for people who do not stretch. Let's find out how you can become more flexible with just a few simple techniques.
Yoga
Yoga will improve your flexibility to great extent. You will be able to flax your body in a way that you never thought possible. Different poses or asanas in Yoga focus on making your body more flexible and relieve your stress. When you stretch in yoga, you hold it for several breaths. You also move constantly in yoga from one pose to another. All these exercises that you perform during a yoga workout, will help you to increase your flexibility. And it focuses on both upper and lower body flexibility. Along with flexibility, you will also achieve strength, balance and will be able to lose extra weight.
Dance classes
Dance classes are really beautiful and useful when you want to increase your flexibility. There are so many different moves that you need to perform and use different parts of your body, which ensure that you are increasing your flexibility. Whether it is ballet, salsa, zumba or any other traditional dance classes, all of them will help you to increase your flexibility. During dancing, you repeatedly move your arms, shoulders, back and legs in a wide range of motion and that makes you more flexible and agile.
Pilates
Pilates is useful for strengthening your core. It will also ensure that you stay limber or supple. It increases flexibility by forcing you to perform different types of poses and exercises. Researchers in University of Iowa found that flexibility of the study participants increased a lot within two months when they performed weekly pilates classes.
Stay hydrated
Water is a large part of our muscle composition and so you need water to make yourself more flexible. Your muscles will respond better to the flexibility training when they are in the optimum condition and for that optimal condition, you need to be well hydrated. If you stay in a dehydrated state for a long time, you won't be able to perform the exercises to improve your flexibility. Drink more water. You should drink water spatially during and after your exercise sessions so that your muscles are working in the optimal condition. If you do not drink water, your performance during the workout will decline.
Stretching
Stretching is important for improving stability. It may be different for different people. There are two types of scratching- static stretching and dynamic stretching. In static stretching, you hold a joint in a stretched position for a specific duration of time. Your muscles get some time to get adjusted to the new range of motion and your muscles are relaxed during the exercise.
On the other hand, dynamic stretching in close moving your body through a range of motion. Such stretching includes squats and lunges. You move your body in multiple planes of motion. Dynamic stretching is more useful for you especially before a training session.
Relax
When you are stressed, your body tightens up, so if you can relax, it will help you to improve your flexibility to a great extent. You always have stress from your home and your work and if you work out, you are going to have some stress from the hard sessions inside the gym. Find a relaxing activity and try to relax your mind and body. Yoga, walking, massage are some of the things that you can do to remove stress from your muscles and body.
References
1. Body weight flow
2. Benefits of flexibility exercises
3. Sample exercises-flexibility