It’s Summer.
For most of the nation that means: get
outdoors!
While the weather is nice, try to challenge yourself outdoors. Push yourself, sign up to an event designed to push both your physical and mental self.
Be it a 5K walk, a 10K, half marathon, full marathon, cycling centuries, boot camps or even one of those extreme events such as zombie survival runs or the aptly named “Tough Mudder.”
Those events are wonderful and
popular and the pride one feels afterwards is exhilarating.
And even better when you are walking or running or biking for a cause like helping to fight heart disease or breast cancer.
But are you concerned about the training and physical strain?
We understand. That's why it's important to follow a training schedule, get proper sleep, eat healthy, and our favorite, stretch.
Make sure you warm up those muscles before hitting the trails. Simple side steps, hip rotations, toe touches, lunges, and of course, stretch your piriformis muscle. This muscle, located deep to the glutes, works extra hard helping you walk, run, and cycle.
Why is it important?
It can become tight and if not properly stretched, can compress the sciatic nerve creating low back, buttocks, and radiating leg pain. The key is to target the piriformis with proper leverage and control to gently stretch and relax the muscle. The Miracle Stretch® Piri-Stretcher® patented home exercise tool helps provide you that leverage and control for a safe, effective stretch.
The idea of exercise can be daunting for those of us who suffer in silence with daily chronic pain like Sciatica or Piriformis Syndrome. But little by little, with stretching and movement, exercise can help pain subside. We know it can be an everyday challenge to simply get out of bed.
Set goals. Take small steps.
The idea of a 5K walk may seem far off, but our fans who have felt like they couldn't possibly do it, have sent letters relaying how they are walking without pain - starting at home and moving beyond to finish 39-mile breast cancer walks and beyond. We are so proud and happy for them.
Make sure you warm up those muscles before hitting the trails. Simple side steps, hip rotations, toe touches, lunges, and of course, stretch your piriformis muscle. This muscle, located deep to the glutes, works extra hard helping you walk, run, and cycle.
Why is it important?
It can become tight and if not properly stretched, can compress the sciatic nerve creating low back, buttocks, and radiating leg pain. The key is to target the piriformis with proper leverage and control to gently stretch and relax the muscle. The Miracle Stretch® Piri-Stretcher® patented home exercise tool helps provide you that leverage and control for a safe, effective stretch.
The idea of exercise can be daunting for those of us who suffer in silence with daily chronic pain like Sciatica or Piriformis Syndrome. But little by little, with stretching and movement, exercise can help pain subside. We know it can be an everyday challenge to simply get out of bed.
Set goals. Take small steps.
The idea of a 5K walk may seem far off, but our fans who have felt like they couldn't possibly do it, have sent letters relaying how they are walking without pain - starting at home and moving beyond to finish 39-mile breast cancer walks and beyond. We are so proud and happy for them.
It's not about getting a free race T-shirt or medal. And it's not about admiration of others. It is about living. Going on. Moving. Feeling great.
Not once a summer,
but every single day.
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