For the past couple of years I’ve been extremely sedentary and I am definitely noticing how that’s taking a toll on my body. I think I had imbalances and such before but now they are glaringly obvious; one shoulder higher than the other, one hip/glute is tighter than the other, same with calves, etc etc it goes on and on. I wanna try to address this stuff, so if anyone has any pointers or resources that they find helpful for mobility/strength/flexibility that would be dope.
sometimes i follow videos by “the girl with the pilates mat” on youtube. a lot of her videos focus on mobility, strength, flexibility, and balance with a lot of low impact beginner videos as well (they really do make me feel so much better when i have energy to do them). i’d also be interested to see what other recommendations people may have for physical therapy cause i definitely need it too.
Awesome thank you for that! I definitely need beginner exercises for sure. I found a website with exercises for ankles/knees/hips and I had to begin with the seniors modifications for some of the exercises which was discouraging but it’s better that I start at ANY level as opposed to not doing it at all
i absolutely agree, exercises aimed at seniors are genuinely really helpful! that youtuber also has senior videos too and they’re way easier to follow cause they’re a bit slower paced so i can keep up better (genuinely the ones i follow the most). always gotta go at your own pace and listen to your body! also can i ask what website you use?
haha yeah if I’m trying to follow yoga or cardio videos that go too fast I feel like I trip over my own feet even when I was my most fit.
The workout I used was based off of this. I kinda combined a few other exercises with the basic format of the seniors/beginners routine to make it longer. I seriously had no idea how difficult it would be to do the amosov squats and ankle rotations! I’m pretty sure I have shit ankle mobility so squats are pretty difficult for me to do so that was good but only could do like 20. Same with ankle rotations, I could only maybe do 20 in both directions, but now I’ve worked up to 50 in each direction. Gotta take 1-2 breaks though