Yoga and Recovery
Why Yoga?
At Bikini Boss we love to work hard and recover harder! Sufficient recovery is just as important as your workout itself and one of the best ways to practice active recovery and promote greater health and well-being is by incorporating yoga into your weekly routine.
Yoga helps to increase flexibility by preventing tightness and rigidness in your muscles, especially after lifting, which can eventually lead to reduced mobility, less activation in the muscle, imbalances, and eventually injury when left unaddressed. Yoga also builds muscular strength and tone through isometric contraction and can improve respiration, energy, and vitality!
We recommend incorporating at least 1-2 yoga sequences into your active rest days each week. You can choose from our library of follow along videos below depending on the area of focus you desire.
Namaste!
Balance
- Balance is an often-neglected area of fitness. This sequence is designed to stretch and strengthen areas of your body required for proper balance, such as the ankles and quadriceps, in order to be more powerful in your movements and prevent injury in both daily life and athletic activities.
Hip Opening & Mobility
- The core of our bodies propels us and keeps us stable through a plethora of activities throughout. It is responsible for our stability when walking, running, sitting, and much more complicated tasks. Here is a flow of movements that will strengthen not just your abs, but your back, abdomen, hips, and pelvis to better work together to keep you strong and make all other movements easier.
Restorative Recovery
- After a long week of working out, working, and all of the other tasks life requires, it seems like the last thing we want to do is work out again. However, motion is lotion, and your body feels better after stretching out all the sore spots and giving your body oxygen to reduce lactic acid buildup and decrease soreness. These poses will help you release tension to move more easily on your recovery days and get ready for a new week ahead.
Twist and Shout! (Minus the Shout)
- Twisting your body has a wide range of benefits, such as detoxing your organs, increasing the length of your muscles, and stimulating circulation to keep your heart healthy. When done properly, twists improve other movements by giving your spine a deeper range of motion so you can perform better and prevent injury.
Core Strengthening
- The core of our bodies propels us and keeps us stable through a plethora of activities throughout. It is responsible for our stability when walking, running, sitting, and much more complicated tasks. Here is a flow of movements that will strengthen not just your abs, but your back, abdomen, hips, and pelvis to better work together to keep you strong and make all other movements easier.