When we practice yoga, we often hear the teacher say, “cat cow pose is really a good pose”, and suggest you practice cat cow pose more.
Why is this simple action so popular with teachers? It turns out that the fact that people who practice yoga are young is related to the cat cow style.
This action of cat cow is very effective and easy to do for flexible spine and relieving low back pain.
Today, Xiaobian brings you a detailed explanation of cat cow style.
Let’s practice cat cow style correctly! 01 how important is it that the cat cow style can flex the spine? The spine is called “keel”, and the weakening of spine flexibility is the earliest sign of human aging.
Its function is like the roof beam of a house.
If the toughness, strength and elasticity of the roof beam are not enough, the back will begin to collapse.
We often see advertisements for diseases of the elderly on TV, saying that this old man has symptoms such as cervical spondylosis, hunchback, oblique shoulder, low back pain, hyperosteogeny, scoliosis and so on.
The older he is, the more spinal problems he has.
But now in the Internet age, young people sit in front of computers all day and look down at their mobile phones.
Young people have gradually become a high-risk group of spinal diseases.
In addition, do you often see a person who has stayed up late for a long time to work and play games in a depressed state and become old? Part of the reason is that his spine has problems.
There are nerves and muscles around the spine.
When your spine is not flexible, the nerves and muscles will not be healthy, the blood circulation will be poor, the metabolism will be slow, and people will naturally show their old state.
The long-term practice of the two simple postures of cat cow pose can not only flex the spine and keep you away from spinal problems, but also efficiently stimulate the nerves and muscles around the spine, promote blood circulation, speed up metabolism, and make people look young and healthy.
(the steps of asana practice are attached at the end of the text.) 02 alleviating low back pain “sub-health” has always been a word often mentioned by people.
The common sub-health shoulder neck low back pain in our human body basically occurs in the spine.
In addition, some hip and knee pain problems may also be compensatory phenomena caused by spinal stiffness or other abnormalities.
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In addition, when doing this pose, many people not only did not do the whole flow process of the flexible spine, but also did not activate the relevant muscles, but just moved at will.
In fact, to practice this pose, we need to move the entire spine of our lumbar spine, thoracic spine and cervical spine section by section, like a string of pearls, each of which should flow, and the related pelvic floor muscles, abdomen, back and other muscle groups should be activated.
Therefore, when practicing, you should pay attention to: inhale, rotate the pelvis forward, and flow the lumbar spine, thoracic spine, and cervical spine forward section by section.
Finally, raise your head, stretch the pectoralis major muscle, stretch the abdomen at the same time, slightly tighten the hips, and activate the forearm and serratus anterior muscle.
Exhale, rotate the pelvis backward, and the lumbar vertebrae, thoracic vertebrae, and cervical vertebrae flow backward section by section.
Finally, lower your head, stretch the erector spinalis muscle behind you, tighten the hips, tighten the abdomen, and activate the forearm and serratus anterior muscles.
The focus of this pose is never to collapse the waist and arch the back, but to move every vertebra of the spine and activate the muscles related to it.
And if you really do this, you will be very tired, because in real life, most people’s spine is very stiff, and the related muscles are difficult to control.
Many people find it difficult to practice at the beginning, and some even have to practice many times before they can find the feeling.
The above is the sharing of today’s content.
Although the action is simple, there are many key points.
We must carefully grasp the key points before practice, so as to achieve the purpose of practice by putting the posture into position.
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