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The next exercise is going to require that we are on our hands and knees and there is
a couple problems for some people so one of the things I'd like to say is go ahead and
buy one of these garden mats that you are supposed to kneel on. They really help to
protect the knees from a hard floor or an inadequate mat so if you want you can go ahead
and put this under your knees if you need to. It really helps. Now a lot of people have
wrist problems and it really hurts them to be in this position. If you do have wrist
problems you can take your mat and roll it up so that you're not at this perpendicular
angle but instead you are slightly different than that and you are no longer creating a
problem with carpal tunnel or your wrists. So whenever you are in a position where your
wrists are exactly like this try and change that angle. So this exercise is again working
the sides and the obliques. We're are going to inhale and hands are shoulder distance
apart, hips are shoulder distance apart. We are going to inhale in the center and exhale
keeping the weight evenly distributed on the hands and knees we are going to bring one
shoulder to the hip, stretching out one side and crunching the other side. Now notice how
I haven't fallen to one side, inhale in the center and exhale, hip to shoulder, inhale
center, exhale hip to shoulder feel the stretch pulling in on the abs, inhale center and exhale
hip to shoulder.