Yoga With Weights: Warrior 2 With A Lateral Raise Video

When performing lateral raises in the yoga Warrior two pose, hold arms out steady for about four breaths while gripping weights. Try lateral raises in the yoga Warrior 2 pose with training tips from a fitness trainer in this fitness video.

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Body position: Warrior 2
Light weights encouraged
Upper body muscles: Shoulders
Lower body: Opening & strengthening of hips
Full body workout

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Hi, welcome to Core Training, my name is Joseph and in this segment we're going to do back extensions on a swiss ball. So that being said, a couple of things to remember, you always want to press your shoulders back and your arms back into the mat, that will help stabilize you. Also, the second thing, flex your feet strong on top of the ball. This will keep you connected to the ball. I know as especially as we get tired the feet start to get a little weaker, the ankles get weaker, keep those ankles strong. So with that being said go ahead and lie onto your back, placing both feet on top of the ball, again ankles up on top, flex strong, curl the shoulders back, stretch the arms out. Then you're going to take a full breath in and as you exhale you're going to lift your pelvis straight up and inhale to lower, exhale, two and down and three, down. Core strong the whole time. If at anytime you feel this in your lower back work that stomach even stronger. Eight, nine and ten now hold it; you can lower the hips just a little bit but keep the stomach strong, now you're going to squeeze the inner thighs and bring those knees deep toward the chest, right over the hips and then stretch it out. We're going to do that ten times, let's do nine more. One, and two, three, four, five, keep the arms and shoulders back, six, seven, pressing even deeper with the heels, eight, nine and ten, nice, hold it strong keeping the inner thighs connected and lower your pelvis all the way to the floor. Adjust your feet a little bit more on top of the ball, again flexing the heels strong, keeping the inner thighs connected, last set of ten, you're going to just simply curl the hips straight up and lower down, here we go ten, and one, down and exhale and down, three, four, shoulders back arms strong, breathe out, six, seven, eight, last two, nine, and ten, nice job, relax it down. Hug both knees into the chest and come on up. So these are great exercises to do especially if you've done a lot of running, a lot of cycling, it helps to strengthen the hamstrings as well as your back muscles. So with that being said, this is core training, my name is Joseph, have a good one.

Yoga With Weights: Warrior 2 With a Lateral Raise Video

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