CYP Weekly Plan: A Little, Often
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How can your practice be fluid and fit into the flow of your day?
Anchor your practice plan this week with videos in CYP: A Little, Often Collection — prioritize videos that relate to your practice focus or goal, and broaden your video selection as you feel inspired. Aim for 2–3 practices every day, whenever they fit into the flow of your day. BONUS: use your favorite stretches whenever you can spare a moment.
For more guidance, use the sample plan.
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Create Space Meditation
It’s often when we feel like we don’t have time to meditate or rest that we need that space the most. When you’re busy, things tend to blur together — as if there’s no space between thoughts — and it’s hard to be fully present and effective with what you’re doing.
Use this practice to slow thin...
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Full Body Mobility
Exclusive routine from Work IN: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results!
Gently mobilize your body to increase fluidity to muscles, surrounding tissues, and joints to ease stiffness and restore range of motion. Use this routine to Work IN.
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Stabilize Your Center
When it comes to Balance, your core is always a good place to start.
Use this practice to understand how your spine is designed to move, and how to activate and strengthen your core muscles to support that engineering and ease imbalance.
Take your core stabilization practice further:
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Pre-Run Warm Up
Use this quick pre-run routine to activate your breath and encourage turnover while warming up all your key running muscles quickly including your glutes, core, and back to optimize the miles ahead.
- Focus: performance, warm up
- Key muscles: glutes, core, back
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Use Yoga at Your Desk
It’s time for some Yoga for Real — use yoga in your real life to come into balance in the moments when you need it most. And what’s more real than the amount of time we spend at our desks? And sitting in general?
Use this Reset at your desk — or anywhere you might be sitting — to wake up your co...
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How To Hit Reset Anytime Anywhere
Hit Reset on the go! Use this routine to bring more ease to your neck, shoulders, back, and hips, and find more balance wherever you are. Includes simple stretches you can do at your desk, on the bus, or anywhere you happen to be sitting. No one will even notice (if they do, they'll want to join ...
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Quick Post-LR Reset
Don't forget to Reset en route to your ice bath or shower. Use this quick routine to ease post-run stiffness in all the key areas in less than 5 minutes.
- Focus: recovery
- Key muscles: hamstrings, hips, glutes, back, shoulders
- When: post-run/workout
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Hammy Time
It's hammy time! For those times when you're out of gas and don't have much energy or time to stretch, use the wall to align and support your body while quickly re-lengthening stiff muscles. Includes a comprehensive hamstring Reset plus a hip opener. Shout out to Oiselle CEO Sally Bergesen for na...
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Unwind Your Workday
Create space between your work and your rest so that you can effectively transition into the rest of your day and optimize your rest and recovery.
Use this Reset to unwind the postural imbalances that accompany long stretches at your desk — tech neck, stiff chest, sore back — calm your nervous s...
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Extended Exhalation Breath
Exclusive routine from Work IN: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results!
Lengthening your exhale has a profound calming effect on your nervous system, helping you to slow your heart rate and relax. Use this routine to Work IN.
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5-Minute Back Reset
Post-workout or prolonged sitting, your spine craves a return to neutral. This quick Reset will move your spine through its complete range of motion to improve circulation, ease stiffness, and re-establish optimal alignment and posture.
- Focus: injury prevention, recovery
- Key muscles: back
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5-Minute Shoulder Reset
Shoulder stiffness and tension — sound familiar? This quick Reset will bring relief to this area by opening and increasing circulation to the muscles of your shoulders, upper back, and chest.
- Focus: injury prevention, recovery
- Key muscles: back, chest, shoulders
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5-Minute Neck Reset
Neck tension is wasted energy. Use this quick Reset to ease strain and stiffness post-workout or wake up.
- Focus: injury prevention, recovery
- Key muscles: neck
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Recovery Boost
Exclusive routine from Work IN: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results!
Relax deeply using static (still) postures, making use of the wall as a prop, to open the body and encourage deep physical and mental relaxation. Use this routine to Work IN.
Includes a pre/post practice che...