Crunch Time With a Yoga Twist + Body Parts You Didn't Know You Had

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us Crunch Time With a Yoga Twist + Body Parts You Didn't Know You Had Not so very long ago, I thought that the best way to build strength for yoga was doing more yoga. It's actually a method that served me well for many years, so I'll continue to stand behind it as an option. However, when I started doing exercises that target the core on a regular basis, I noticed a difference in my yoga practice pretty quickly. I feel more supported in balancing postures of all kinds. Want to see what I mean? Incorporate the following crunch variations into your routine.   Ann Pizer Yoga Expert Yoga Crunch Alternatives Traditional crunches isolate the abdominal muscles, but yoga crunches take a more holistic approach, requiring more muscles groups for an overall strengthening effect that will help you get into those arm balances and inversions. Here are step-by-step instruction for abdominal work that includes the legs and twists.   READ NOW Share 10 Yoga Poses for the Psoas Your psoas is a bilateral deep core muscle that you may not even be aware of. The psoas becomes tight when we spend a lot of time sitting at desks and in cars. A tight psoas leads to a weak core, which can cause back pain and other muscular-skeletal problems.  READ NOW Share 5 Body Parts You Didn't Know You Had If you glazed over when I said psoas, check out the remaining four body parts you didn't know you had until yoga brought them to your attention.   READ NOW Share Yoga and Muscle Soreness Stretching a lot of muscles you didn't know you had can make you sore in the oddest places. See what you can do to ease the pain.   READ NOW Share MORE FROM ABOUT.COM • Does the Weather Really Affect Arthritis? • When should you have your next baby? • The 48-Hour Recovery Period in Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome • Does Weight Loss Always Resolve Sleep Apnea? Learn Why It Might Not • The Healthy Snacks That Will Help You Lose Weight • Fibromyalgia Remission: How I Got Here • May 12 Awareness Day for Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome • This Massage Technique May Decrease Pain With Fibromyalgia Advertisement About Health   |   Follow Us: You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Yoga newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved