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Technique

  1. Get into a kneeling lunge: one leg forward with the toes pointing forward and the foot flat on the ground, and the back leg’s knee on the ground and the toes pointing back.
  2. Bring both hands to the ground, on the inside of your front leg.
  3. Try to get your chest as low as your flexibility allows.
Logging: Work each side for the time indicated.

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Muscles

Flexibility

Primary

  • Pelvis
  • Quadriceps
  • Glutes
  • Hamstrings

Secondary

  • Hip adductors

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Equipment

Ground (hands or body)
Ground (hands or body)

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Appears in

Joint movements
Hipextensionflexion
trains stretches

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Progressions

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Kneeling lunge forearms down

Novice
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Kneeling revolved side angle

Beginner
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Kneeling lunge chest up

Beginner
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Kneeling lunge arms up

Novice
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Kneeling lunge forearm down reach up

Novice
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Lunge elbow tap

Novice
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Sitting piriformis stretch

Beginner
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Kneeling revolved side angle prayer hands

Novice
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