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Technique

  1. Sit with your legs open wide.
  2. Place your hands behind you and push on them to get your body closer to your legs.

Muscles

Flexibility

Primary

  • Glutes
  • Hamstrings
  • Hip adductors

Secondary

  • Legs
  • Pelvis

Equipment

Appears in

Joint movements
trains stretches

Progressions

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Sitting straddle stretch

Beginner

Regressions

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Wall straddle stretch

Beginner
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Assisted sitting straddle stretch

Beginner
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Staff pose

Beginner
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Sitting pike hands push

Beginner
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Sitting straddle toe pull

Novice
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Butt balancing straddle fold

Intermediate
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