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Technique

  1. Sit down on the ground and open your legs straight out to the sides.
  2. Place one hand under the opposite knee, lift the other arm up and bend to the side to stretch the side of your trunk.
Logging: Work each side for the time indicated.

Muscles

Flexibility

Primary

  • Hamstrings
  • Glutes

Secondary

  • Legs
  • Hip adductors
  • Pelvis
  • Obliques
  • Spine
  • Neck
  • Abs

Equipment

Appears in

Joint movements
trains stretches

Regressions

e0no

Assisted QL stretch

Beginner
e18d

Block-assisted sitting pike fold on heel

Novice
e0us

Ankle-support triangle

Novice
e18b

Sitting pike fold with bent leg

Novice
e0xs

One-leg forward bend

Beginner
e0vi

Sitting one-leg forward fold

Novice
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