Purpose: Strength – Core and Lumbar Spine
Exercise Description
- Resting on your hands and knees
- Hands directly under shoulders, knees under hips and hip distance apart
- Shoulders stabilised
- Spine in neutral
- Core stability muscles engaged
- Inhale to prepare
- Exhale and slide the foot in a straight line away from body when fully extended lift leg from the floor
- Inhale and return leg to start position and switch legs
- Repeat x 12
Watch Out Points
- Keep core engaged
- Keep shoulders stabilised
- Make sure you bring knee back to same place hip width apart
- Do not put all your weight through your static knee equal the weight across to the opposite arm
- Keep stable through spine
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