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Technique

  1. Get on all fours and open your legs to the sides, while keeping approximately a 90 deg. angle at the knees and the hips.
  2. Get your hips as low as possible.
  3. Slowly rock back and forth to target slightly different areas with the stretch.

Muscles

Flexibility

Primary

  • Glutes
  • Hip adductors

Secondary

  • Pelvis
  • Hamstrings

Equipment

Appears in

Other disciplines
Joint movements
trains stretches

Regressions

e183

Quadruped rock back

Beginner

Variations

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Frog stretch

Novice
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Flying butterfly

Beginner
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Straight leg fire hydrant

Novice
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Supported squat hip rotation

Novice
e0i9

Active 90-90

Novice
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Lying butterfly stretch

Novice
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