Side Bend

Let's take a look at the side bend. This exercise is is really a great one because it's powerful. It does require certain things to be in place to be safe, but the the choreography is actually quite simple. So I I do use it a lot. And I think it's quite nice to be able to hold your body up with your arms and feel that you can trust them. So, the exercise begins actually in a shape like this. But if you don't know where the endpoint for your side plank is, then it's going to be very challenging to figure out where your feet and your hands need to be. So my suggestion would be to begin in a plank position.

So you might begin in your plank, and you'll feel your plank. From here, you wanna make sure that you are a little bit over your hands. Sometimes people are too far back. So a bit over the hands. So the hands are underneath the shoulders.

And then you might shift to your side plank. So that's a great way to know where you need to be. In order to then begin the exercise. So I've sat down. So I'm gonna place my hand so it's right in the middle here. So notice that my top leg is forward, and my arm is straight.

And here, we have to create some stability in the muscles of the shoulder stabilizers that pull down and also the abdominals here. So you're gonna tuck this rib back and make sure that you've got those abdominal obliques working. So lots of shoulder stability and lots of, core strength here as well. So here, try to push through the arm and feel that you're energized first, strong first, hover the pelvis, and then we push ourselves out to that side plank. And then you might hover yourself down.

So we wanna make sure we can do that before we move on to the next part. So here, the next part, shoulder is strong, abdominals are engaged. I come to that plank position the arm goes up. And then here, bending, I'm lifting those hips up, the waist up, the side bend on the underside as much as I can. You might look down at your hand and reach your arm over.

And then you'll come back to that side plank and back to a soft seat. Now if you are not strong in that shoulder mechanism, one will find that that can be uncomfortable. So one can always, modify by going to the elbow if needed, but also practice being on the arms creates strength. So I highly recommend that. Thanks for playing with me, and that was the side bend.