How to do a Hamstring & Lower Back Flexibility Stretch:
Yoga Block Mobility for Beginners 7/7
This beginner flexibility exercise will relieve tension, gently release the lower back, and gently lengthen the hamstrings (back of the legs).
✔️How to do it
– Have a seat on the floor with legs extended and back straight.
– Bend your knees and slide one foam yoga block underneath the back of each knee, more toward the end of the thigh, than under the knee itself.
– Lean forward and grab both feet. Engage the upper back and pull the shoulders backward, slightly arching the upper back.
– Pull the navel backward, engaging the active resistance, and start to extend one leg straight and alternatingly extend and bend right and left legs.
– Push each thigh down into the block as you extend each leg for a quick second.
– The shoulders remain engaged, and the navel continues to pull backward.
– Start with ten repetitions and work up to timed sequences of up to a full minute.
Who is Terri Walsh?
Terri Walsh is the creator of the Active Resistance Training® Method, and a celebrity Trainer and 35 year veteran of the fitness industry in NYC. She now teaches online and Livestream fitness classes exclusively since her move to Costa Rica in 2014.
Terri was the first Creative Director of Programming at Crunch Fitness and she also headlined five different shows on Crunch Fitness’ ESPN2 including “Washboard Abs” videos. She created the “Yoga Block Workouts” which were featured in Self, Women’s Health, Shape, Crunch Gyms, and many more. Terri is an ACE Certified Group Fitness Instructor and Nutrition Specialist. She’s been interviewed, quoted, and featured in numerous beauty, fashion, print, and television media over the length of her continuing career.
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Terri believes EVERYBody is a work of A.R.T. and that Movement Cures Everything.
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