Improve your splits with this simple & quick eye movement!
"Brainy What-Why-How"
Your weekly nibble of brain-based tips to help you move and feel great!
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What:
You have reflexes within your nervous system that may increase flexor and/or extensor tone depending on what you do with your eyes 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Why?
If you look as far over to the right as you can with your eyeballs, you may notice that your head turns to the right too. If not, there's certainly an urge to let the head follow, right?
Where your eyes go, your head (and then the rest of your body) follows.
So this has created several reflexes* in our nervous system, meaning certain muscles automatically activate following certain eye movements.
One that I love to use is snapping my eyes quickly to the side to increase my splits!
How:
Try it with me in the new "Keep It Simple" Full Body Flow on Move With Adell...
Or try it now! Move into a lunge, half split, or full split (make sure you're warmed up!)
Then take your eyes from looking forward 👁️⬆️ to looking to the OPPOSITE side as whichever leg is forward.👁️➡️
So if your right leg is forward, you'll snap your eyes to left. 👀
Notice if that deepened your hips, or perhaps just alleviated any tension.
Let me know how it goes!
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Wishing you happy ocular motor reflexes,
Adell xoxo
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