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Also known as: Cossack hold.

Technique

  1. Sit down on the ground, extend one leg to the side, and bend the other one and lift the knee up.
  2. Push your knee out and pull your foot closer to open your hips.
Logging: Work each side for the time indicated.

Muscles

Flexibility

Primary

  • Glutes
  • Hamstrings

Secondary

  • Hip adductors
  • Pelvis

Equipment

Appears in

Joint movements
trains stretches

Progressions

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Foot-elevated vertical frog

Intermediate

Regressions

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Supported vertical frog

Novice
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Sitting half lotus forward fold

Novice
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Sitting half lotus fold

Novice
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Butt balancing one-leg out

Novice
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Sitting straddle toe pull

Novice
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Sitting bound half lotus fold

Intermediate
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