Technique
- Balance on one leg and hinge forward until your torso is horizontal, the other leg pointing backward.
- Rotate your hips toward the floor, then rotate them away toward the ceiling.
- Maintain your balance without using any external support.
Form tips
- Keep the standing leg slightly bent and the torso aligned with the back leg.
- Focus on rotating from the hip socket of the standing leg.
Logging: Repetitions done on one side.
Muscles
Strength
Secondary
- Legs
Flexibility
Primary
- Hamstrings
- Hip adductors
Secondary
- Legs
- Pelvis
- Glutes
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Flexor digitorum brevis
- Flexor digitorum longus
- Flexor hallucis longus
- Flexor hallucis brevis
Equipment
Appears in
Strength
Balance
Joint movements
Regressions
Back scale
Novice
Half moon pose
Intermediate
Assisted hip airplane
Novice
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