Up Stretch

  • Equipment: Reformer
  • Category: Full Body Integration
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Body position: Standing
  • Repetitions: 5–8 reps
  • Springs: 1 Red + 1 Yellow – 2 Red
  • Headrest: Any
  • Footbar: High

Starting position

Start in a plank with hands on the footbar and feet on the carriage. Then lift the hips up into a pike position keeping arms straight

Instructions

Inhale to shift forward into plank over the bar. Exhale to pull the carriage in by lifting the hips into a pike. Continue flowing between plank and pike

Teaching cues

  • Lift hips from the abdominals, not momentum

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