Bear Crawl to World’s Greatest Stretch.

This exercise challenges every muscle in the body including the shoulders, chest, glutes, legs and required engagement of the core muscles throughout the entire movement.

This can be used for injury prevention as part of your dynamic warm-up to prep your body for your workout, or at the end of a session.

This combination of movement and static positions challenges the central nervous system, forging the connection between the body and the brain. When the connection is made, muscles fire properly, so you make the most of every movement and are much less likely to get injured.

How To Perform?

Bear Crawl: Quadruped position with knees off the ground. Head up and tail up, knees wide and shins parallel to the ground. Moving opposite arm with opposite leg (try to set opposite hand down at the same time you set opposite foot down, and only move approximately a hands length).

World’s Greatest Stretch: From the Bear Crawl Position, Step left foot forward to your left hand, and lower your body into a lunge. Keep your right hand on the floor so it’s even with your left foot. Your right knee should remain above the floor – not touching. Rotate your trunk and reach your left hand to the sky. Try to pull the toes on your left foot up to your shin. Bring left hand back down to the floor and switch sides REPEAT same steps. THEN back to BEAR CRAWL.

Main targets: Deepens hamstring and gluteus stretch; shoulders, pecs, upper and lower back, internal and external rotators of hips and obliques. Synchronizes thoracic spine mobility with lumbar spine stability.

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