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Standing Pancake

The standing pancake utilizes gravity to assist an athlete into an adductor stretch. This is great beginning stretch for handstand press mobility.

  • Type Of Exercise: Flexibility
  • Muscles: Hips, Hamstrings
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Equipment: Body Only

Standing Pancake

  1. Begin standing with your feet straddled apart at least double hip-width.
  2. Point your feet straight ahead, straighten your knees, and hinge at your hips with a flat back.
  3. You must maintain an anterior pelvic tilt (APT) as you fold forward.
  4. If you can't reach 90-degrees at your waist with a flat back, help yourself to keep a flat back by placing your hands on your thighs.
  5. If you can get to 90-degrees with APT, cross your arms and hang freely in a comfortably challenging stretch.
  6. Hold for time.
  • Exercise: Side to Side Squat
  • Type of Exercise: Mobility
  • Muscles: Quadriceps, Glutes, Hips, Hamstrings
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Equipment: Body Only
  • Exercise: Vertical Frog
  • Type of Exercise: Flexibility
  • Muscles: Hips
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Equipment: Body Only