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Healthy Weight loss-Hip Stretch with Rotation
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Check it out!Healthy Weight loss-Hip Stretch with Rotation
After cycling open the hip by Crossing one leg over the other. Rotate in the transverse plane. The rotation helps to put the function back into the foot, ankle, knee and hip. When cycling your feet are in a fixed and Dorsiflexed position which makes the foot a poor shock absorber when getting off the bike and returning to walking. The rotation puts inversion and eversion back into the foot and ankle. Your knees will thank you for putting functional movement back into the feet and opening the hips..
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Functional Balance
Functional strength-Stretches for lower back/thoracic spine
Stretches for the lower back and thoracic spine. Over head reach creates tension and length in the trunk. Opposite arm is cross lateral at chest which creates tension stretch between shoulders. Foot elevated on step unloads the lower back on one side. Add trunk rotation to create active stretch in the thoracic spine.