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Also known as: Side-to-side wrist stretch.

Technique

  1. This is a good way to warmup the wrists and get them ready for more intense activities (such as balancing on your hands).
  2. Get on all fours, with the palms down and fingers facing to the outside.
  3. Alternate between leaning to the left and right sides, to place some pressure on your wrists.
  4. Each cycle of going left and right counts as one repetition.

Muscles

Flexibility

Primary

  • Forearms

Equipment

Appears in

Flexibility
Joint movements
trains stretches

Progressions

w010

Thorough wrists warmup

Intermediate
e08u

Wrist flexors stretch neutral

Beginner
e0xt

Palms down fingers forward wrists circles

Beginner
e08k

Knee palm raise

Beginner
e0xu

Palms down fingers forward elbows rotations

Beginner
e08s

Wrist flexors stretch external rotation

Beginner
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