6 Easy Exercises to Wake up Your Lazy Muscles
Fatigue and felling “tired all the time” is a common feature in modern life. Mental tensions are often expressed as constant partial contraction of the muscles, which depletes your energy and disrupts your breathing pattern, making you tired. Muscles remain tense, even when you are inactive and think you re resting. To wakeup lazy muscles, here are 6 moves you can do to combat fatigue:
1. The big bend – Stand with hands on top of table or chair; bend forward from hips. Back up until arms are straight out. Next, stand on rope, feet wide apart; pull rope taut. Lower head, draw hips back. Feel the pull through arms, spine, and backs of legs.
2. The long stretch – This second warm-upper removes tension from long muscle fibers and tendons. You need a length of rope, ends knotted together.
Rope in hands, raise arms up and out, so rope becomes taut all around.
3. Cat Stretch – Crouch down on your hands and knees, with your arms and thighs vertical, like pillars. As you exhale, slowly lower your head and arch your back up, so that it forms a curve. Then, as you inhale, bend your head up and bring your spine down so that it dips slightly. Feel the stretch along your spine, neck and shoulders. Repeat several times, breathing slowly, and accentuate the upward and downward stretches of the spine as much as you can; do not move your head.
4. Inverted corpse – Lie near a wall and raise legs, resting them on the wall at a 450 angle, without bending knees. You may place a cushion under your buttocks, but not during menstruation. This exercise is also good if you suffer from varicose veins.
Caution: Avoid this if you have recently had a blood clot in a vein or if you have hypertension.
5. Cobra – Lie face down with your legs together. Place your hands flat on the floor, on either side of your chest. Inhale and raise your head. Exhale. Inhale and raise your chest until your ribs are off the floor. Exhale. Inhale and stretch further up and back, stopping just before your navel comes off the floor. Use your back muscles to lift your rib cage, and then use your arms. Hold for three to five breaths, and then slowly lower yourself as you exhale.
6. Meditation pose – Sit with your legs out and part them to form a V-shape. Bend your left leg and bring it towards you, placing your left foot on the floor close to your groin. Then bend your tight leg and place your right foot on your left thigh. Rest your hands on your knees. Keep your back straight and start to meditate.