However, they work with all the other core muscles-depending on the exercise. The adductors aren’t really on the front or the back of the body. When these muscles work, the abdominals and psoas muscles need to stretch to keep everything balanced. Similarly, your gluteus maximus is often involved when you work your erector spinae muscles. When these muscles work, the gluteus maximus and erector spinae muscles often need to stretch to keep everything balanced. Often the muscles on the same side of your body work together.įor example, your abdominals and psoas muscles often do similar jobs. (This means they’re the ones responsible for lifting your leg in front of your body.)Īll of the muscles listed above work to counter-balance each other. These muscles work together to flex your hip.
Your core is a small word used to describe a sort of large group of muscles that work together. Here’s more about how Cat/Cow exercise strengthens your core. Plus, Cat pose is an excellent exercise for folks who are trying to relieve hip pain. Truthfully, I love Cat pose so much that it’s one of the staple pain-relieving exercises in Spinal Rejuvenation, my online video course which teaches people everything they need to do for immediate + permanent pain relief. So, in this little yoga combo, you move your spine in two of the four directions necessary for a healthy, pain-free back.īut, the real beauty of this Cat/Cow exercise is that when you move carefully, it’s virtually impossible to hurt yourself. Then, when you extend your spine, you are strengthening your spinal muscles and stretching your abdominals. This is called spinal flexion, and it’s one of four ways your spine needs to move to be healthy and pain-free. When you arch your back toward the ceiling (for the Cat portion of the exercise), you are strengthening your abdominals and stretching your spinal muscles. The Cat/Cow exercise is a fantastic way for people of all fitness levels (and in varying amounts of pain) to practice in-home pain relief. So, How Does the Cat/Cow Exercise Relieve Back Pain?
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Here’s more about Cat pose, Cow pose, and how to merge the two together into the Cat/Cow exercise to relieve your back pain and strengthen your core muscles. Truly, this is one of the most magical yoga pose combinations because of its ability to relieve aches + pains in your whole back. You’re strengthening it, stretching it, and relieving back pain in the process. In fact, when you smoothly move from spinal flexion (like when you’re in Cat pose) to spinal extension (like when you’re in Cow pose), you’re doing a ton of good for your spine. These two yoga classics go together better than peas and carrots - and not just because I’ve never met anyone who likes that vegetable combination. Although they are technically two different yoga poses, the Cat/Cow exercise is normally done in one seamless flow.
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