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Regularly using an Aerial hoop helps flexibility, balance and coordination as well as being a great stress relief.
Additionally, Health reported aerial yoga has been known to help alleviate painful symptoms for people, who suffer from back spasms, scoliosis, or a herniated disc.
Athlete: Regularly using an Aerial hoop, also known as Lyra, helps flexibility, balance and coordination as well as being a great stress relief; seen in 2018
In 2016 during an interview with Vogue, Williams talked about using her Cirque du Soleil-style moves to clinch a third consecutive victory over Venus for one of their dance-offs. It started really fun, Serena said of their dance-offs at their annual Williams Invitational. And then it got serious, and then it got overboard serious, and then it got Broadway.
Beyond glamorous photo shoots, Williams recently brought meaningful fashion to the tennis courts. Earlier this month, for her first match in the 2021 Australian Open, Williams wore a color-blocked, asymmetrical unitard, a nod to the late track athlete Florence Griffith Joyner, widely known as Flo-Jo, who popularized the asymmetrical gear in the late 80s.
After winning her match, Williams said in a postgame interview, per
The Guardian, I was inspired by Flo-Jo, who was a wonderful track athlete, amazing athlete, when I was growing up. Watching her fashion, just always changing. Her outfits were always amazing.
She added that she collaborated with Nike to create the look. This year we thought of what can we do to keep elevating the Serena Williams on the court. The Nike team actually thought of this design of inspiration from Flo-Jo. I was like, Oh, my God, this is so brilliant, she said. That s where we started. Obviously we made some changes and tweaks to it. It became th
Williams tagged Chrissy Teigen, noted robe enthusiast, in the post.
It is well-established that Serena Williams absolutely
nails a photoshoot (see: her recent campaign for Stuart Weitzman), and her latest Instagram post further demonstrates her modelling prowess. Williams shared a gorgeous photograph in which she poses in a shaft of light on a staircase, wearing a sheer, red, feather-trimmed robe over a deeper red mini dress and completing the look with crimson velvet heels. The sporting legend wore her hair blonde and loosely curled, with a smoky eye and a soft taupe lip. Breathtaking!
Williams also shared a video from the photoshoot, in which she descends the stairs in slow motion before posing for some shots, a wind machine elevating her hair and robe. She tagged her glam team in the post, hair stylist Angela Meadows and makeup artist Natasha Gross, as well as visual architect Kesha McLeod and photographer Ronald Wayne. And in the caption? Williams tagged Chrissy Teigen, a fel