Synergy Yoga To Properly Warmup For A Kettlebell Workout?
Dear Aurora & Fox Valley Area Kettlebell Training Practicioner,
As a Kettlebell Instructor it is VERY important for me to make sure my Kettlebell Kamp and Kettlebell Sport clients remain injury free. I specifically designed a warmup especially for Kettlebell Training with keeping in mind the main movements we regularly practice be it the Kettlebell Snatch, Jerk, Clean, Press, Push Press, or whatever.
This joint mobility sequence is exactly what we practice before every Synergy Kettlebell Training fat blasting and skinny strong workouts as well as our Team Synergy Kettlebell Sport practice. By performing a variation of this sequence every time you allow your body to be prepared for whatever you do no matter if you are at a beginner, intermediate, or advanced Kettlebell Instruction level.
If you say you cannot "do" or perform yoga you are absolutely mistaken. If I can forward bend and touch my toes and you can only touch your knees, we are both doing a forward bend at our "edge" or ability level, and breathing ourselves open from there. We are doing the same thing and receiving the same benefit from it. It is called "Yoga Practice" because we get better every day. If your posture is 1%, 99% or anywhere in between of what the exact posture is then that is YOUR posture for that day. Some days will be better than others and you'll just "get it" better, but never cease to practice and never allow your mentality to ever limit you. That is the postural aspect of yoga in a nutshell.
Yoga is less about the stretching that's involved and more about your ability to capture your breath and open your body to receive the freeness of your mind. The postures are simply used to create an environment that allows body awareness and body release such as detoxification and balance. In fact, if you are staying more focused on your breathing and more aware of your body than someone even more flexible than you are, you are doing the yoga "better" than they and even if they are in a more "advanced" position within that same posture. The position doesn't matter. The mindset and breath control does.
All of the master yogis tell us, yoga is not about the visible. It's not about being able to bend yourself into a pretzel, although if you practice long enough, that's an interesting and useful side benefit. It's about harnessing something unconscious (the breath), making it conscious, and then using it as a tool to feel, open, and free the body AND the mind.
Just as any sport, martial art, and even church denominates it's particular form of practice and/or belief, the names of these things have connotations that simply distract people. Yoga is a spiritual discipline with a long history of associations with various things, and people sometimes focus on that. To me the essence of its athletic benefit is that you're establishing an inward feedback (of movement, breathing, and body sense) that you don't get with other forms of training, but is important to advanced mobility, stability, and connective tissue health. I think of it as a kind of bridge between resistance training and functional movements. Some elite athletes develop their own version that uses the principles from various schools of Yoga but is uniquely their own. Rickson Gracie, of the Gracie Family and founders of Gracie Ju Jitsu, for example has a very Yoga-like routine that is also uniquely his own.
Being a Kettlebell Intructor and Teacher I too have developed my own form of yoga-istic style in my "Synergy Dynamics Warmup & Cooldown". It is filled with basic yoga postures and mobility movements combined into a synergistic practice that can be performed on its own, but always done post Kettlebell Boot Camp in Aurora, IL and my own personal Kettlebell Sport workouts. The movements & postures sync with what a kettlebell practicioner needs post workout and I developed it to resonate within their bodies in order to improve overall functions, flexibility, and body awareness in their unique individual practice.
Watch A Video Overview Of Synergy Kettlebell Training Dynamics Warmup...
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