Core Class ~ Strengthen & Lengthen
with Andrea Brown Gleason 
Core Class ~ Strengthen & Lengthen
with Andrea Brown Gleason
with Andrea Brown Gleason
February 5 (Wednesday)
at 8:00 am
Class length
45 minutes
Class type
Core & Stretch or Yin
Join Andrea Gleason for 45 minutes of concentrated core work. Your core is a complex group of muscles that work together to keep you upright, & your spine stable, and injury-free. We’ll actively move, hold and find length in the space between the base of your spine and your shoulders.
Because I'm geeky this will give you an idea of target areas:
- Abdominal Muscles:
- Rectus Abdominis – Flexion & Side Flexion: Long, straight muscles that run down the middle of your abdomen, from your ribs to the front of your pelvis.
- Obliques – Rotation & Side Flexion:
- The external oblique muscles are one of the outermost abdominal muscles on your sides, and they run diagonally from the lower half of your ribs down to the pelvis.
- Internal obliques sit underneath the external obliques and run diagonally from the pelvis up to the lower ribs.
- Erector Spinae – Extension and Side Flexion: run vertically along both sides of the spine.
- Transverse Abdominis – Compression & Deep Core Stability: The deepest abdominal muscle. It wraps around the entire waist to support the spine.
- Diaphragm:
- Large, dome-shaped muscle that sits at the base of the lungs and contracts and expands as you breathe. Creates intra-abdominal pressure
- Pelvic floor
- A group of four muscles that sit at the bottom of the torso and form a hammock across the pelvic opening to support the bladder, bowel, uterus, and vagina and provide stability within your core for your spine.
- Hip flexors:
- All hip flexors are in the front of the body around the thigh.
- Psoas connects front of the body to the lumbar spine
- Iliacus connects front of the body to back of hips
- Rectus Femoris (the only Quad muscle that is involved in flexion at hips and extention at knee,
- TFL – single leg Stability,
- Sartorius hip bone across the thigh in inner knee (longest muscle in the body)
- All hip flexors are in the front of the body around the thigh.
Reservations
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