Core Class ~ Strengthen & Lengthen Virtual
with Andrea Brown Gleason 
Core Class ~ Strengthen & Lengthen Virtual
with Andrea Brown Gleason
with Andrea Brown Gleason
ONLINE
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. Your 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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