Piriformis-SMR

GlutesFoam rollerIntermediateIsolation
Piriformis-SMR — start position
Start
Piriformis-SMR — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryGlutes

How to do it

  1. 01

    Sit with your buttocks on top of a foam roll. Bend your knees, and then cross one leg so that the ankle is over the knee. This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    Shift your weight to the side of the crossed leg, rolling over the buttocks until you feel tension in your upper glute. You may assist the stretch by using one hand to pull the bent knee towards your chest. Hold this position for 10-30 seconds, and then switch sides.

In the app

Piriformis-SMR appears when you own a foam roller and 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.

If you don't have a foam roller

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

With bodyweight

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