Side plank on elbow
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Level: 1
20-30 seconds each side
Carla van den Berg
- Straight line from head to ankles
- ElbowÌýdirectly under shoulders
- Hand on hip or reaching up toward the sky
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- Hips too low ('sagging')
- Cue "Raise hips slightly towards the ceiling"
- Upper shoulder rotating inwards
- Cue "Proud chest"
- Cue "Reach hand up towards sky"
- Cue "Pinch shoulders back towards spine"
- ElbowÌýtucked too far back towards hips
- Cue "When setting up from the ground, place elbow a little farther toward the head than you think it should be"
- Head hanging down
- Cue "Long, strong neck"
- Activates obliques (lateral trunk muscles)
- Trunk stability
- Activates shoulder muscles