Purpose: Strength – Core and Lumbar Spine
Set up Position
- Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor with knees and feet in line with hips
- Link your hands together behind head with the elbows open
- Lengthen the back of your neck
- Stabilize the shoulder blades
- Spine should be in neutral
- Core stability muscles engaged (30%)
Exercise Description
- Inhale to prepare, exhale and curl upper body off floor twisting to one side
- Inhale and lower upper body and repeat and twist to other side
- Repeat x 12
Watch Out Points
- Do not allow the elbows to come in across the mid line of the body, think shoulder over to knee, not elbow.
- Do not move hips
- Do not allow lower back to push into the floor so avoid curling under the pelvis
- Keep core muscles engaged throughout
- Do not pull on the neck
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