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Cat Stretch

Lower backBodyweightBeginner
Cat Stretch — start position
Start
Cat Stretch — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryLower back
SecondaryMid back, Traps

How to do it

  1. 01

    Position yourself on the floor on your hands and knees.

  2. 02

    Pull your belly in and round your spine, lower back, shoulders, and neck, letting your head drop.

  3. 03

    Hold for 15 seconds.

In the app

Cat Stretch needs no kit, so it appears whenever the day's window has room for it. Its minutes come from Rule 2 (Sessions are built to fit, never guaranteed, graded product): the window sets how long it runs, never the other way round.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

Same pattern, with kit

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

With bodyweight

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