The Amazing Stickie loves incorporating exercises from different disciplines into her workouts because it keeps her brain stimulated along with her body. Today she is adding some sun salutations from yoga into the mix. She also knows that sun salutations are a lot like burpees, but without the jumping. They still give her many of the same whole-body benefits of burpees without the impact.
She begins standing in good posture with her arms overhead. From there, she bends forward with her hands on the ground and her body making an inverted V (downward dog, for you yogis and yoginis out there). Then she flattens her body into plank position and lowers herself slowly toward the floor, like the lowering phase of a very slow pushup. After that, she extends her arms and arches her back (keeping her shoulders down!) into an upside down backbend position (cobra or upward dog, depending on how high she lifts). Pushing her behind up in the air, she returns to the inverted V position and from there curls up to standing again.
With practice, Stickie has made one position flow into the next in a relatively seamless sequence.
Do five to ten reps.
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