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back flexibility
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Gawkpop yes the chest stand is more difficult than the bow or the cobra. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_flower.gif The chest stand is NOT a good move for beginning back work yikes https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_eek.gif. That is something to work up to.
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Gawkpop, bow/teardrop is easy enough to do like in the yoga picture with bent legs and legs appart – but not so easy to do like the picture of Alina I posted. 🙂 I wouldn't know anything about contortion lol…- I was working on the move with one of the coaches at gymnastics when this picture was taken.
Veena, no worries, I'm not begginer at all. I've been competing internationaly in vaulting for over two years and have been doing gymnastics for three months. 😉
I guess I should have said "when you have mastered" rather than "if you can do"
Oh something I accedentally left out of my frst post. Make sure to always stretch your back both ways equally. So if you do a bridge do a plough or something after it.
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One other thought on back flexibility…
when you are arching backwards, your back isn't actually stretching, it's contracting. The front of your body is stretching. So to have a really good back arch, you need to spend a lot of time stretching the quads, hip flexors, psoas, and chest muscles. Your back muscles need to be strengthened to be able to pull your body backwards adequately.
The resistance stretching that I teach works on exactly this principle–in order for a muscle to fully stretch, its balancing muscle needs to be strong enough to fully contract. I offer private sessions via skype, message me if you want to know more.
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