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A routine of six mobility exercises designed for runners can help prevent injuries, improve movement efficiency, and enhance performance by targeting key joints like the big toe, hips, ankles, and thoracic spine. These low to medium intensity exercises, which can be incorporated throughout the day, focus on improving joint mobility and stability essential for a comfortable and effective running stride.
A physical therapist shares a simple routine of three exercises—cat cow, telescope stretch, and goalpost stretch—to relieve shoulder stiffness and enhance upper-body mobility, emphasizing gentle movement and breathing for better posture and reduced tension.
Incorporate three key mobility exercises—Asian squat, Jefferson curl, and World's Greatest Stretch—into your lower body routine to unlock tight hips and boost hamstring flexibility. These exercises can be performed with just body weight or a kettlebell for added intensity, enhancing your performance in squats, deadlifts, and other lower-body workouts.
The year 2023 saw celebrities like Janhvi Kapoor, Sara Ali Khan, Shilpa Shetty, Virat Kohli, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Deepika Padukone, Sameera Reddy, Alaya F, Disha Patani, and Sushmita Sen showcasing their unique fitness routines. From friction training and mobility exercises to ice baths and hula hooping, these celebrities demonstrated their commitment to health and wellness, inspiring millions along the way.
Strength training is a beneficial way to promote healthy aging and reduce the risk of injury. Amanda Place, founder of Sculptrition, has created a beginner-friendly full-body workout routine that focuses on building comprehensive strength. The workout consists of six exercises, including squats, lunges, deadlifts, overhead presses, push-ups, and planks. Each exercise should be completed for three sets, but if short on time, one set of each exercise can be done for an eight-minute workout. These exercises target various muscle groups, improve range of motion, posture, and overall stability, making them effective for healthy aging.
Prolonged sitting and sedentary lifestyle can lead to stiffness, poor posture, and joint health issues. The good news is that mobility and flexibility are highly trainable, and it doesn't take a lot of time or energy to improve them. Six simple movements, including cat/cow, standing spine twist, waiter's bow, kneeling hip flexor stretch, yoga push-up, and yoga squat, can be done daily to alleviate the detrimental effects of prolonged sitting and sedentarism. These exercises focus on the areas most likely to be tight, i.e., the hips, back, and shoulders, and take less than ten minutes a day.
Spending long hours sitting at a desk can lead to poor posture and aches and pains. Bridget O’Carroll, owner and founder of Studio Qila, recommends incorporating mobility exercises into your daily routine to open up and rebalance the strength throughout your body. O’Carroll suggests three go-to mobility moves to open up your chest and pull your shoulders back, which will help prevent your shoulders from creeping up throughout the day. Repeat this circuit two or three times each day, or anytime you catch yourself slouching on the job.