The Amazing Stickie knows that being able to rotate her spine and to bend sideways help keep her mobile. This is another exercise that involves some spinal flexion, so it is best avoided by people who have osteopenia and osteoporosis.
She begins seated on the floor with her legs extended out in front of her about as far apart as a yoga mat is wide. She holds her arms out in a wide V at shoulder height. Stickie inhales to lengthen her spine. As she exhales, she rotates her torso toward one side, simultaneously bending so that her arm comes across and down toward her opposite ankle, as if it were a saw chopping off her foot (no, I did not make that particular gory image up myself.). Then she returns to the start position and repeats on the other side.
Four or five repetitions to each side are good.
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