Day 26: Friday
In order to release the hips and maintain proper posture, one of the things we need is a flexible spine.
A flexible spine also prevents shoulder injury and releases neck pain. This isn’t something that is spoken about often in the fitness community, because the focus is most often on building muscles. But we can’t build our muscles safely without a flexible spine- if the spine doesn’t move fluidly and too much demand is put on the muscles, injury can happen.
This is something to pay attention to, because as we get older, we lose spinal flexibility. And we don’t even notice! Until all of a sudden our necks start hurting, our hips are too tight and our shoulders are strained.
We need to be delicate when working on spinal flexibility. The spine shoulder and neck video is designed to begin working on spinal flexibility in a way that eases you in. And for some people, these movements (like the gentle backbend over the foam roller) can cause a system shake-up, similar to that of the foam rolling. Emotional release, a flooding of toxins, perhaps even some nausea and dizziness. So this is a reminder to go slow with the spine stuff in video 5, but don’t skip past it. Getting the spine moving again is really important for pulling your posture back together.
Have you started the spine shoulder and neck video? How did it feel to you? Do you have a flexible spine or does yours feel stuck? Email me or post on the facebook page!