Technique
- Lie on your back, with your butt and legs against a wall.
- Open your legs out to the sides into a Straddle position and make it as wide as your flexibility allows.
- Relax into this position, taking slow deep breaths.
Muscles
Flexibility
Primary
- Hip adductors
Equipment
Appears in
Joint movements
Hipabduction
trains stretches
Progressions
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Beginner
Variations
Weighted wall straddle stretch
Intermediate
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