Masoom brings another blog in the Health series on how to strengthen your knee. 1.Stretch your IT Band: •Stand with your left foot crossed over your right. Lean your upper body as far as you can to the left without bending your knees. Repeat with your right foot crossed over your left, leaning your upper…
Continue reading...How do you know if your hip is weak? Our in-house physiotherapist Masoom suggests three simple, do-it-yourself tests to determine if your hip needs help. NUMBER 1: Do a one-legged squat. RESULT: If your knee collapses inward, your hips are probably weak. NUMBER 2: Stand with your right food on a step/foot stool…
Continue reading...Here is all you needed to know about the Hip Joint. The hip joint is one of the most important joints in the human body. It allows us to walk, run, and jump. It bears our body’s weight and the force of the strong muscles of the hip and leg. Yet the hip joint is…
Continue reading...Following the tips that we shared in our older post- “Fitness for all”, we are here with many more, this time bringing you the goodness of a wholesome diet. Any Dancer’s diet like his/ her lifestyle is very very different. Any individuals’ diet requirement is based on performance and output. This makes a different place…
Continue reading...Masoom Parmar shares a few beginner exercises for shoulder strengthening. Read on… To begin with, the following basic shoulder strengthening exercises should be performed approximately 3 times daily. As your shoulder strength improves, the exercises can be progressed by gradually increasing the repetitions, frequency or duration of the exercises provided they do not cause or…
Continue reading...Our in house physiotherapist and Arts Manager, Masoom Parmar shares some beginner exercises to strengthen your abdominals. Read and practice… THE ABDOMINAL MUSCULATURE The following exercises have been designed for beginners. In case you suffer from any back injury or abdominal discomfort before, during or after the course of the exercise regime, refrain from…
Continue reading...Prinicpal Dancer and Youth Wing Director Vishwakiran Nambi’s third blog in the body conditioning series. Read on… Once you have identified your body type and its fitness needs,the next step would be to design a suitable regime to suit your needs. Now, every professional dancer will have certain physical requirements which are common for dancers…
Continue reading...Principal Dancer and Youth Wing director Vishwakiran Nambi’s second blog in the body conditioning series. Have a look… Irrespective of the dance style one practice, it is absolutely necessary for a professional dancer to be in shape, not just to own a physically attractive body but also to be in a condition to endure long…
Continue reading...Our in-house physiotherapist Masoom shares few exercises to strengthen the hip. Read it, follow it and stay fit! In this blog we shall discuss the basic hip strengthening exercises. To begin with, the following basic hip strengthening exercises should be performed approximately 10 times, 3 times daily. As your hip strength improves, the exercises can…
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