http://kararuns.com/2017/11/20/postpartum-exercise-mobility-for-runners/ Wellness. Happiness. Balance. Motivation. Encouragement. Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:44:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.16 http://kararuns.com/2017/11/20/postpartum-exercise-mobility-for-runners/#comment-72594 Tue, 21 Nov 2017 01:17:58 +0000 http://kararuns.com/?p=8170#comment-72594 Yes, definitely! They are really undervalued. I did mobility work randomly pre-pregnancy but definitely not as much as I should have. Now it’s a bigger part of my “workouts”, and I no longer rush through them like I used to! (If I was smart I would have focused more on this before, too. Oops.) A lot of what I’m doing now is actually movements my physical therapist gave me years ago for running healthy! Clamshells and glute brides are some of my favorites

]]> http://kararuns.com/2017/11/20/postpartum-exercise-mobility-for-runners/#comment-72592 Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:55:57 +0000 http://kararuns.com/?p=8170#comment-72592 No kiddos or pregnancies here, but you can do a LOT with body weight strength and mobility training. Thera bands are great too… clamshells, glute bridges, leg lifts, squats, lunges, etc. You can change up the foot positioning of bridges to target glutes (feet closer to butt) or hamstrings (feet further out). I think people really underestimate some of those exercises in terms of how much they help imbalances. You don’t have to experience a pregnancy to have them, a lot of it is from sitting all day or even crossing legs.

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