Purpose: Strength – Core and Obliques and upper body
Exercise Description
- Lie on your side and bend your legs to 90º, hips stacked
- Engage core and pelvic floor, shoulders back and down
- Rest on your elbow
- Elbow should be directly under shoulder, make sure feet, sit bones and elbow 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 hold for 1 minute or as long as possible
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 elbow under shoulder