Anyone who has attended a course in a boxing gym will not have been able to avoid do some squats …

Anyone who has attended yoga classes has stumbled, sooner or later, into utkatasana Chair position Yoga woman. …

Well, like many of the exercises that you are running during the workout part also comes from yoga squat nonspecific in boxing and, more specifically, by yogic Chair. A very ancient asanas, which combines the benefits of bending forward (because you have a hip flexion), with those of the standing poses. Thus, strengthens upper and lower body, increase stability, strengthen upper and lower limbs. Not for nothing in Sanskrit utkata singinifica really powerful!

The position of Chair, as we said, strengthens your ankles, thighs, calves, arms, shoulders, spine, promotes body posture realignment simmetrizzando, stimulates the abdominal organs, heart, diaphragm.

From tadasana, with a long inspiro, lift your arms bringing Palms before in front of the heart and then over the head, perpendicular to the floor and parallel with your palms facing inward. Exhaling it lowers, flexing the knees and hips and making sure that your thighs are parallel to the floor as possible.

Your knees, then, there will be over your toes and your torso will be slightly bent forward. To maintain the position the feet must be firmly secured to the floor, thighs, abdominals contracted contracts towards the column.

Three or five breaths while maintaining the asanas and then, we inhale and relax your knees, bringing back the body upright. Exhaling your arms back along the body at the location of the mountain …

Ready to rediscover the power of this position? Good practice!