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Flexibility Stretches for Beginners
Using a wall and a chair you will be guided through a full-body series to help increase your flexibility. This session is perfect for beginners and the inflexible to the inflexible looking for a gentler stretch session - and everyone else in between.
Tools: a chair with a back & access to a wall.
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Pause - Stretch & Release
Day 9 - Pause! Feeling stiff? Lunchtime break? Scan the body, move with the breath and open your back and hips with this short sequence to get the body feeling more alive.
Equipment: Mat
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Body Reset
Day 10 - Body Reset - A blend of yoga, fascia release and deep breathing to bring your body and mind to a more peaceful state. Great to do anytime you are feeling sluggish, tight or off in any way. Come take some time for yourself and enjoy the rest you deserve!
Equipment: Mat, 2 Yoga Blocks
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Sweat & Stretch for Osteo
Workout #4 - 30-Day Osteoporosis Program
A short cardio workout, followed by mobility and stretch session.
Tools: chair, yoga tie
For after-workout stretches if you have Osteo, please follow this: https://overfiftyfitness.vhx.tv/videos/stretches-for-osteoporosis
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Total Body Mobility - Safe for Osteoporosis
Workout #19 - 30-Day Osteoporosis Program
Work your mobility - so you not only feel better, you move better too!
Tools: a chair & mat
For after-workout stretches if you have Osteo, please follow this: https://overfiftyfitness.vhx.tv/videos/stretches-for-osteoporosis
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Low Back Strength Workout
I choose 8 of my favourite low back strengthening exercises for this 15-minute workout. It's the perfect lower back workout for anyone who needs to strengthen the deep core muscles and large muscles at the base of the spine.
I also recommend it if you are coming back from a herniated or slipped...
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Easy Total Body Stretches
This total body stretch routine is perfect for beginners! Add it on after a workout, run, hike or bike ride to work out the tight areas of your legs, hips, spine and shoulders.
Day 5 of the 21-Day Fit & Fierce Challenge.
Tools: 2 yoga blocks & a mat
Cat & cow
T-spine rotation
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Upper Body Stretch - Release Tight Neck, Shoulders, Chest & Back
Release your tight neck, shoulders, pecs (chest) and back with this 15-minute upper body stretch routine. If you suffer from neck, shoulder or back pain, you will love these stretches!
Day 10 of the 21 Day Fit & Fierce Challenge.
Tools: mat
Spine & shoulder stretch
Scorpion
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15-Minute Yummy Leg Stretches
Stretch and release your legs with this relaxing 15-minute stretch session. We will focus on your calves, hamstrings, quadriceps and hip flexors.
This is the perfect stretch session for after a workout, run or bike ride - and it's a great active recovery workout too.
Day 15 of the 21-Day Fit ...
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Hips, Hammies & Glute Stretches
Y.U.M.M.Y. That's the only way to describe this lower body stretch session. Grab a mat and follow along as we unlock the hips, stretch out the glutes and lengthen the hamstrings.
This session also includes some soft relaxing music in the background, and we finish it off with an extended savasan...
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Chair Mobility & Flexibility
Day 5 - 10 Day No Impact Fitness Program. You will really enjoy this all-seated mobility and flexibility session. Hitting all the tight areas in the body (hips, hamstrings and shoulders to name a few) with a special seated savasana at the end.
Tools: a stretch tie & a chair
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Abs & Stretch on the Mat - No Standing
Day 10 - 10-Day No Impact Fitness Program. Train your abs with no planking, no standing and no pressure on the lower body. We start with a Tabata crunch series and complete this tough little ab workout with a nice all-lying down stretch.
Tools: a mat
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10-Minute Strength & Stretch for the Low Back
Day 1 - 14-Day Happy Back Series
If you've ever had back pain, or you simply want to avoid it, this little workout is for you.
Using 4 of my favourite back exercises you will strengthen the posterior chain of the body (as well as learn how to hinge, instead of bend through your low back), work...
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Lengthen & Strengthen the Spine
Day 2 - 14-Day Happy Back Series.
Continuing from Day 1 you will lengthen and strengthen the muscles of the back, with a focus on the erector spinae group (located at the base of the spine).
Tools: mat & yoga blocks
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Release the Hips for the Back
Day 5 - 14-Day Happy Back Series.
For this session, we focus on releasing your hips with some of my favourite poses and stretches. I place a big focus on your hip flexors for this session because we need to extend or stretch out hip flexor muscles regularly to keep them flexible.
Unfortunatel...
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Hamstring Love for the Back
Day 6 - 14-Day Happy Back Series.
Did you know that tightness in the hamstrings can place increased stress on the lower back, and cause or aggravate low back pain & sciatica? In this session we will start with a hamstring strengthening exercise, to "turn them on" and then follow with two of the...
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Outer Hip Strengthening & Stretching for the Back
Day 7 - 14-Day Happy Back Series.
Your outer hip muscles play an important role in stabilizing your hips and providing support for your low back.We kick off this session with two great glute medius strengtheners and then end with two passive stretches to really release your hips.
Tools: mat &...
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Stability for Your Back
Day 8 - 14-Day Happy Back Series.
This session is focused on improving your stability & balance - because they both go hand-in-hand.
To define each, stability is the ability to control your body position from head to toe through movement, and balance is the ability to maintain your center of ...
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Front Body Release for the Back
Day 10 - 14-Day Happy Back Series.
In this session, you'll begin with two upper back strengthening exercises and then follow it with two pec and anterior deltoid stretches.
Chest stretches are an important posture muscle to stretch because it quite often is tight on people because of the acti...
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Extend Your Spine
Day 11 - 14-Day Happy Back Series.
In this session, we will lengthen and extend the entire spine. Spinal extension is one of the most important movements to do - due to all the spinal flexion we already do in a day (think sitting). So, in order to keep the back strong and supple, you must count...
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Release Your Hip Flexors for Your Back
Day 12 - 14-Day Happy Back Series.
Release your hip flexors to help relieve your back pain. Tight hip flexors not only make it harder to walk, bend, and stand, they can also lead to back pain and muscle spasms in your lower back, hips, and thighs.
This session is also a great post-workout/run...
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Thoracic Spine Love
Day 13 - 14-Day Happy Back Series.
Your thoracic spine (t-spine), is your mid-back and becomes immobile with age, poor posture and/or increased sitting. When the thoracic spine is immobile, the lumbar spine will, unfortunately, pick up the slack and compensate for the lack of movement in the th...
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Gentle Back Stretches
Day 14 - 14-Day Happy Back Series.
You will love this short, focussed yummy back stretch session. All mat based, no up and down exercises making this the perfect little post-workout session, or before bed. Enjoy!
Tools: mat
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Core & Mobility - Bunion Friendly
Day 3 of the 10-Day Bunion Friendly Fitness Series.
All-levels mobility and core class, focusing on dynamic chest, shoulder and hip-openers, balance and core strengthening exercises. We'll start the workout on our feet and transition to the floor.
Tools: mat