Air Exercise
Resistance bands are a great exercise tool, and sometimes it is more effective to visualize a resistance band and do repetitions as an air exercise. This is especially helpful when visualizing lengthening a specific muscle group.
Visualize a resistance band with handles. Air grip the two handles out in front of you and open the arms, stretching out the air resistance band, changing the tension from easy to difficult. Pin your elbows to your sides and continue moving the arms away from the body, and return. Focus on feeling the smooth tension of the pull as if it were a real elastic band.
Visualize hooking one of the handles over your left foot. Air grasp the other handle with your right hand. Using a lawnmower pulling motion, bring the handle toward the right side of the body and return. Add a little story. Use the repeated movement to build or pump up self-esteem. Each pulling motion fills your reserve tanks, which you can tap at a later time.
Now it’s time to test your air exercise for lengthening the Magnus. This muscle is part of the Fab Adductor Family and is the main organizer for the inner thigh. First, visualize attaching one handle of your air resistance band to the inside of the left knee. Next, air grasp the other handle with your right hand and visualize your sit bone where the Magnus attaches. Air pull the resistance band, visualizing pulling it all the way underneath you and attaching it to the curved bone. Not sure where your sit bone is? Google it. Add the lawnmower motion, but now, each time you pull, visualize lengthening the reluctant Magnus, thus waking it up and activating the Adductor Family in dance!
