Chiara Montorsi I have short arms too😔🤔

Its at purple valley retreat in Goa

Try the downward facing frog pose with spread legs in order to relax all the leg muscles beforehand. Also, try relaxing and stretching the psoas - by raising the thigh while sitting on a chair and resisting with your hand against your knee, doing low lunges, the dragon pose etc.

It's 2023 so more than likely, your thigh cramp has ceased to bother, but if you are still prone to cramping, perhaps do some strengthening exercises: lunges, split squats etc.

ASMRyouVEGANyet? maybe find some yin yoga videos....a fair amount of yin poses focus on lower back and hips....I suffer from chronic lower spine problems...and find my yin yoga practice invaluable..hope you have luck..

Dishwashing Lee thank you!

ASMRyouVEGANyet? Your welcome... I hope you find relief of some kind !!

me too!

me too. Pain in the hip flexors.

One might feel more on the weak parts first. Regular practice will change the game!

Same for me! I used blocks.

This is pretty normal. Your arms are most likely not too short. To make the hands touch the ground in that position you must be bending forward at the hips.

Well the abs are one long muscle separated by connective tissue. When you're working abs, you should feel the entire length of the muscle. For example, when you lie on the floor and crunch, you try to feel it all the way down, don't you? And for example, a good hanging leg raise is when you can lift the legs enough to feel it in your "uppers". Understand what I mean? :-)

No. Working the core is code for tensing the transverse abdominus, which is not the same as working the rectus abdominus, the muscle that bends you at the waist. To develop the rectus more completely, for example on the the kneeling rope crunch- I don't just fold over a little bit to contract a little, I contract all the way down, elbows to floor with body in rounded crunch position (if you know what I mean) so I feel the whole length of the muscle. Working the core in "holding" exercises like plank is not the same muscle!

Why don't you search "are there lower and upper abs" and you will see for yourself!

this is a good interactive look at the musculature of the trunk/abdomen area ;) www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/abdomen-muscles

SM385, when pulling in knees toward the chest, only the first phase of the movement is performed by hip flexors, the final part is performed by the abs. If you feel it in the upper legs, it means that your hip flexors are weak and you don't even get to the point where you should feel the abs. When you engage pelvic floor muscles, specifically the lower part of abs, just as she explains. Also, who cares if it's anatomically one muscle or not. It is clearly possible to tense it up partially. If you want to git the lower part, you start by tensing up pelvic floor muscles. If you want to hit the upper part you start by pulling the neck forward and crunching the upper body.