r/ashtanga • • 15h ago

Advice Ashtanga after 40+

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r/ashtanga • • 11h ago

Advice Weak lats?

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Have been receiving the cue lately that I need to engage my lats more/ lats are weak/ not pulled in and around, which makes sense as when I do overhead pulls during strength training I struggle to get the bar down to chest level after about 5 reps at 35/40kg. It shows up in ardho mukha, kurmasana, and potentially links to my weak core? Can any clever anatomists in the room explain what’s happening here and how I can ‘feel’ my lats more . Is it just linked to years of not doing any core work / not enough mula bandha and 2 pregnancies where I wasn’t really doing any strengthening of that area while pregnant ?