Relieving body fatigue and restorative yoga movement guidance

Introduction to restorative yoga

"Restorative yoga", as the name suggests, is a yoga that focuses on restoring physical functions and energy. It can be applied to a wide range of areas, including sub-healthy people, people prone to fatigue, and people who need to recover due to excessive bodybuilding and fitness exercise.

There are two main forms of recovery, negative recovery and positive recovery. Negative recovery generally refers to rest, sleep, etc. During sleep, the inhibitory process of the central nervous system, especially the cerebral cortex, dominates, and the synthesis process of energy substances also dominates. Some metabolites in the body are either utilized or eliminated, fatigue is eliminated, and muscle recovery and growth occur during sleep.

Motivation recovery refers to recovery by transforming the content of activities, such as physical therapy, massage, and appropriate vitamin supplements after exercise. The reason why active rest can play a recovery role is that when changing new activities, the excitement of the cerebral cortex center can guide the surrounding inhibition process to strengthen, deepen the inhibition of the already tired central center, and the synthesis of energy substances can proceed faster, and promote fatigue elimination.

Research shows that active physical recovery training repairs muscle tissue faster than passive rest. Restorative yoga is a positive physical recovery exercise-stretching the muscles and letting them recover, and you will gain more strength.

Principles of restorative yoga

Different from previous yoga that uses muscles to support the body, in "restorative yoga", gravity and deep breathing are mainly used to enhance the effect of yoga posture training.

Restorative yoga assistive device

Yoga blankets, yoga bricks, yoga pillows (bricks and pillows can be replaced with thick towels)

Practice a wall-leaning handstand

Lay the upper body flat on the floor, put your feet on the wall opposite you, straighten your legs, the closer your hips are to the wall, the better, and keep your legs at 90 degrees to your upper body.

Exercise efficacy: A yogi once advised his disciples to practice handstands for at least 3 minutes a day, which shows the benefits of handstands. Although the semi-handstand is not as effective as a full handstand, it is safer and suitable for beginners in yoga. This posture can stretch the lumbar spine and stretch the hamstrings. When fresh blood flows into the head and upper body, the brain cells are full of life, nourishing the hypocerebral glands and pineal glands, helping to establish nerve stability, improve gland dysfunction, and can Make people fully rejuvenate.

Exercise 2: Natural Hip Extension

Lie flat on the floor with a yoga pillow (or towel) under your neck, arms flat on your sides, palms up. Put the soles of your feet together, separate your knees to the sides, place a yoga spin on the left and right knees, and hold for 3 to 5 minutes.

Exercise efficacy: Helps relax the hip joint and restore energy. (Internship Editor: Wu Jinyu)