Diastasis Recti: The Whole-Body Solution to Abdominal Weakness and Separation by Bowman Katy

Author:Bowman, Katy [Bowman, Katy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Propriometrics Press
Published: 2015-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

STRENGTHEN YOUR RIBCAGE

While there isn’t a right way to breathe, there are muscle tensions and weaknesses that render useless parts of the body that should be participating regularly in breathing. In between each rib is a group of muscles (called intercostals) that can move the rib up and down, increasing the size (volume) of the ribcage and creating a flow of air into the lungs. When your ribs don’t move—and oftentimes they don’t—you’re still breathing (TELL ME YOU’RE STILL BREATHING!), but the diaphragm and the muscles of the shoulders have to work overtime to compensate for a lot of parts that are sitting there just taking a vacation. And those vacationing muscles in between the ribs? They’re getting weaker and weaker. This exercise is to help you work the muscles in between the ribs, and there are a couple of reasons to do that. The first is that breathing is awesome and all of your breath-assisting muscles should be working. Another reason is that the less mobile your ribcage, the more you might be inflating the belly with each breath. Belly breathing is fine, but when you inflate your abdomen because your diaphragm has to move more to compensate for ribs that don’t move, your belly breathing can come with a heavy load to tissues of the abdominal wall. This is also the exercise I use to bring the front of the right and left halves of the ribcage toward the midline, as mentioned on page 72.

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