BOUND SPLITS CHALLENGE! 🤩
Binding, stretching—what’s not to love here? 🤷♀️
Seriously, did you know that practicing/attempting splits is good for you? Splits are a deep hip opener, targeting hamstrings, hip flexors, and quadriceps! Even if you can’t go into full splits, working on them gives you a big stretch that improves your joint range of motion! 🙌
Binding allows you to move deeper into twists, helping to strengthen and elongate the spine. You’re also massaging internal organs which improves digestion and helps detoxify the body while getting a fabulous shoulder opener. 🤸♂️
Splits Tip: Use blocks under your hands to help you go a little deeper while still keeping control of the pose.
Bind Tip: Use a towel or strap and gradually work your hands closer together.
(And before you tell yourself that you’re too old to work on splits and binds, I’m 63 and I have two artificial hips! ☺️)
Pose inspired by @isabels.yoga 🙋♀️
