Suspended Seal
Take your seal stretch deeper by elevating your pelvis off the ground for a Suspended Seal stretch. This requires a little more bend in the upper back and lat and shoulder engagement to press hands downward. You will feel an ab stretch as well as some upper back mobility.
- Type Of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Chest
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Body Only
Suspended Seal
- Lie on your stomach with your legs extended straight behind you.
- Place your hands by your shoulders and press up through your arms to arch your spine, lifting your legs and hips off of the floor.
- You should be supported by only your hands and feet in this position.
- Maintain contracted glutes to help protect your lower back and promote more extension through your middle and upper spine.
- Be sure your elbows are completely straight and your hands remain directly under your shoulders.
- Pull your shoulders down and back (depress and retract) at the top of the stretch to open your chest.
- Hold for time.
- Exercise: Shoulder Bridge
- Type of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Glutes
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Elbow Bridge
- Type of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Backs
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
