Purpose: Strength – Core and Obliques and upper body
Exercise Description
- Lie on your side and place your hand under your shoulder.
- Bend both legs to 90º and bring your knees forward so your heels tuck into your bottom
- Engage core and pelvic floor, shoulders back and down
- Hand should be directly under shoulder, make sure feet, sit bones and hand are all in a straight line, use edge of mat to guide you
- Have your top arm resting on body
- Make sure you have a straight line from your hip to your armpit and that you have not dropped into your ribs
- Maintain the natural curve of your spine
- Engage core
- Inhale to prepare
- Exhale and lift hips from the mat bringing your other arm up and over the head
- Lower down and repeat x 10
Watch- Out Points
- Make sure ribs do not sink
- Avoid rounding forwards
- Breath normally
- Maintain neutral through lumbar spine and neck
- Make sure you do not drop into the shoulder and keep hand under shoulder