Purpose: Mobility & Strength – Lower Back
Exercise Description
- Lying on your front with arms outstretched in front as far as you can reach and legs lengthened
- Concentrate on the shoulder blades and pull them down towards your heels and in towards your spine
- Spine in neutral
- Core stability muscles engaged
- Inhale to prepare
- Exhale and lengthen through body lifting arm and opposite leg off floor
- Inhale and lower
- Repeat other side
- Repeat x 12
Watch Out Points
- Keep head down
- Do not pull arms forward as you lift
- Keep tension out of upper body
- Make sure there is no increase in tension in lumbar spine
- Keep pelvis stable
- Do not lift opposite hip off floor or roll body
