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Technique

  1. Start on all fours with hands under shoulders.
  2. Open your legs and lower your pelvis to the floor
  3. Push your hips back toward your heels while keeping your back flat.
  4. Return to the starting position and repeat the motion.

Form tips

  • Focus on pushing through your hands to move your hips.
  • Do not let your feet move inward

Muscles

Flexibility

Primary

  • Glutes
  • Hip adductors

Secondary

  • Pelvis
  • Hamstrings

Equipment

Appears in

Joint movements
trains stretches

Progressions

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Rocking frog

Novice
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Frog stretch

Novice
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Flying butterfly

Beginner
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Half kneeling hip opener

Beginner
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Seated side stretch

Beginner
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Butterfly stretch

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