Thoughts.

Lifted a bit today–good stuff, got a lot of upper body work done, and my favorite, the wrist curls, as well.

After that, though, was yoga. SO good.

I don’t care who you are, you can benefit from yoga. As our instructor pointed out today, when you think you need to stretch a tight muscle, the reality may simply be that it’s too weak and feels sore all the time as a result. Improvement comes as a result of strengthening AND stretching, words for the wise indeed.

And Yoga’s definitely one of the fastest ways toward both. Particularly in terms of flexibility, I was feeling the stretch in areas I didn’t realize existed, and got some great stuff to do for the ever-important quads and sublimely-important hip flexors.

Incidentally, I read in a strength/improve your vertical! blog the other day that the hip flexors are one of the primary factors in speed running and power in jumping, and also one of the easiest areas to make sure is functional–a good warm-up and some static stretching can go a long way towards reducing the friction cold hip flexors generate, slowing you down.

And that’s it for tonight’s rant.

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