Warm Up Your Core
Warm Up Your Core • 7m 28s
Your core is your center — activating here is always a good place to start and a powerful way to start your day.
Use this warm up to align your spine, activate and strengthen your core muscles, and integrate your extremities — arms and legs — to put into context how your core supports your whole body.
Take your warm up practice further this week:
• Use all the videos in this weekly warm up collection
• Download your free A4Y Practice Plan to plan, track, and review each week.
• Share your practice using #athletesforyoga and #yourweeklya4ypractice — we love to cheer you on!
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How to Activate Your Core
Your core is your powerhouse — it powers all of your movement. Use this routine pre-workout or on cross-training days to make sure these key muscles are awake and doing their job to optimize your power and prevent injuries.
- Focus: strength, performance
- Key muscles: core, back
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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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Functional Core
Functional (practical) core strength means core muscles that are strong enough to safely and effectively power sport and life movement. Use this routine to build a foundation of deep core strength that will help you gain and sustain power when you walk, run, cycle, and more.
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