Core Strength - Four Point Kneeling With Heel Slides

Core Strength - Four Point Kneeling With Heel Slides
Body Works Sports Physiotherapy
604-983-6616
233 West 1st St #420
North Vancouver, BC V7M 1B3
http://www.body-works.ca

Do you want to improve your core strength? Be able to stabilize your back and pelvis better for activity? Check out our core strengthening exercises focusing on stability of your spine in neutral while you slide your heel backwards and stabilize at the other hip and spine.

Hi this is Dana Ranahan from Body Works Sports Physiotherapy and today I want to show you a nice core strengthening exercise you can work on at home. So basically, grab a matt, simple to do, you come down on hands and knees position. And one of the things we want to work on here is learning to find a neutral spine position. So we have a video for this already on our website. Basically it’s trying to bring your knees underneath your hips working on engaging your abdominal muscles to hold your spine neutral. So you’re not letting your back sway or back round and then coming into position where both hands are under your shoulders and neck is in a nice neutral position. Now from here we want to work on moving so that we can maintain our spine in neutral. So getting your core muscles to hold your spine neutral while we move our arm and leg. So first off, we’re going to work on breathing. Breathing in, as I breathe out I’m going to engage my abdominal muscles a bit and now I want to work to slide one leg behind me without allowing my pelvis to move and spine to move. So effectively, breathing in, breathing out, engaging my core, sliding one leg back and trying to maintain my spine neutral as I do it. And then breathe in, come back and alternate sides. Breathing out, maintain, try to hold your pelvis neutral and slide back. This side is a bit harder for me. I’m breathing in, coming back to neutral. This is a nice exercise to work on controlling your spine to teach your muscles to stabilize for you. So give it a try at home and usually work to fatigue. So maybe you’ll end up doing about 8 or 10 in a row before you start to get tired. So give it a try and let us know fi you have any other questions. Check out our website at www.body-works.ca.

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