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Core and Flexibility

3/24/2013

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When it comes to injury prevention, I think nothing is more important than the fraternal twins: Core and Flexibility. As it gets closer to starting day, I am getting more and more concerned with keeping myself injury free. So I am spending a little less time on strength and endurance and a little more time on core and flexibility. 

I general, I tried to do a little core work with the strength aspect of the workout. Lots of body weight exercises and such. But for good measure, I threw in some planks, side planks, and hanging leg raises above and beyond the strength. I'm not a big fan of crunches, simply because I don't enjoy them, not because I have any information on their effectiveness. But I do think I may throw in a few of them in this last week.

For flexibility, of course, I have turned to yoga. I used to go to a yoga class at the gym that I dubbed "easy yoga" because of its gentle, flowing nature. From that class, I learned that I actually get better results from the gentle approach than from power yoga. And though changes in class schedule has made yoga at the gym impossible, I have tried to do one yoga DVD or download per week. I am rather partial to Sage Roundtree's Yoga for Athletes. I also did a lot of yoga downloads from Bexlife.com

SInce injury prevention is pretty much a full time concern, especially when engaging in physical activity all day every day for months on end, I'm in the process of putting together a Core/Flexibility routine or two for the apres hike, before sleep part of the day on the trail. I gotta stay injury free on the trail, too.

One week and counting!
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chris
4/13/2013 07:23:44 am

great blog. many similar thoughts. keep having fun and moving forward.

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