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Watch "Picas Exercises (1956)" on YouTube

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Yin yoga for the lower back and hips:

1. start in a low squat, you can place your hands in front of you to get more support. If your heels don’t touch the floor, put a blanket underneath to get more stability. Stay here for 2 to 3 min

2. butterfly: from the squat put your bum on the ground, place your feet together and fold forward. Stay here for 3 to 5 min

3. square pose: put your right shin parallel to the front of the mat, place other leg on top, shin also parallel, so the top foot is on the bottom knee and vice versa. If this is too hard you can also cross your chins or sit in cross-legged position. Fold forward for more stretch. 3 to 5 min per side (pay attention to your knees, if you feel pain go less deep or come out of the pose!)

4. happy baby: come lie on your back, point lower legs up and take hold of your thighs or your feet, push your upper legs down towards to mat. 3 to 5 min

5. frog: it’s easy to start from child pose here. From child pose walk your knees wider, you can keep your feet together or turn the legs out so they make an angle. Walk your upper body forward, find a place to relax. 3 to 5 min

6. stretch out, grab hold of your elbows, place head on your arms. 3 min

7 and 8. swan and sleeping swan. Come to down dog, lift leg and place knee in between hands, walk your back leg back if you want. You can put the foot of the front leg more to the back if you want less of a stretch. Watch out for your knee, go less deep or come out of the pose if it hurts your knee. Stay upright for 2 min, then walk your hands further and relax your upper body to the floor, stay for 3 to 5 min, then come back to down dog to change sides.

Some remarks: take your time to come out of the poses slowly and maybe stretch out in between them (fe come to down dog walk out your legs, stretch your legs out and move them from left to right). In yin yoga we focus on the connective tissue and it needs some more time to be stretched, take your time to find a comfortable position and then try not to move to benefit from the pose.

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I had five minutes so I made this 🤷‍♀️ Some basic downward dog variations for a happy lower back 😌✌️ (let me know what you think of it, I might make more)

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Strongwoman Lotti, 1925.

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Day 75 of Quarantine. 35 lbs down. 75 days without alcohol. Still a ways to go but I hope you’re inspired!

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“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”

— Confucius

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Did You Know?

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I need to do some cardio.

Putting weights away is cardio.

https://www.gymaholic.co

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Wanda Wulz Exercice 1932

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The 60 best ab workout you can do at home

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Calisthenics exercises are characterized as using large muscle groups to lift or move your own bodyweight. Here is a list of calisthenic exercises.

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Some eaiser variations of push ups to help you build the strength to do a traditional one!

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I hate having a body, it’s so high maintenance! Shower this, eat that, drink this, sleep that, it’s all very stupid

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And clothed as well