Beginner exercise

Spinal Stretch

  • Mobility
  • Range Of Motion And Yoga

Technique

How to perform Spinal Stretch

  1. Sit on a stable chair with both feet planted and your pelvis supported.
  2. Rest your interlaced hands behind your head without pulling your neck, allowing the elbows to open.
  3. Turn your chest gently to one side and return toward the middle, repeating the turn three times without bouncing.
  4. Then fold forward diagonally while turning, guiding an elbow toward the space inside your knee only as far as you can control.
  5. Unfold slowly to sitting upright and return to the middle.
  6. Repeat the turning and folding sequence on the other side.

Programming relevance

Muscles involved

MuscleScoreRole
Erector Spinae1.0Mobility Target
External Oblique0.5Mover, Mobility Target
Internal Oblique0.5Mover, Mobility Target