Purpose: Mobility of spine
Exercise Description
- Lying in the set up position with your feet fairly close to your bottom
- Inhale and curl out of neutral with a pelvic tilt and peel bottom and lower back off the floor
- Exhale and peel the spine off the floor until you create a bridge from your knees to your shoulders.
- Inhale at the top
- Exhale and roll the spine back down into the floor and back into neutral.
- Repeat x 6
Watch Out Points
- Keep knees parallel and hip distance apart (put cushion between knees to stop feet rolling out if required)
- Keep tension out of the upper body
- Avoid hyper extending spine at top of movement
- Do not go up onto the Cervical Spine
- Do not press arms into floor as you travel up and down
- Do not squeeze glutes
- Make sure knees are almost over the top of the ankles
- Keep breathing into rib area
- Make sure you return to neutral before you begin your journey again.
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