Sit with your legs out straight and reach gently towards your toes.
Reach for your toes
How to do it
- Reach for your shins if your toes are far away.
- Breathe out and reach a tiny bit further.
- Never bounce. Slow and still.
- Nothing at all
- Enough floor to lie down on, arms out.
- A rug or a mat, and nothing sharp where you put your hands.
Watch out for this
Make it fit you
The right version is the hardest one you can still do properly. That is not a kindness, it is how this works.
Easier
- Bend your knees a little and rest your hands on your shins.
Harder
- Hold it for five slow breaths.
What it trains
Which muscles do the work
HamstringsBackboneCalf muscles
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Where you'll do it
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