Dancer's Stretch

Lower backBodyweightBeginner
Dancer's Stretch — start position
Start
Dancer's Stretch — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryLower back
SecondaryAbductors, Glutes

How to do it

  1. 01

    Sit up on the floor.

  2. 02

    Cross your right leg over your left, keeping the knee bent. Your left leg is straight and down on the floor.

  3. 03

    Place your left arm on your right leg and your right hand on the floor.

  4. 04

    Rotate your upper body to the right, and hold for 10-20 seconds. Switch sides.

In the app

Dancer's 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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