Standing Pike
The Standing Pike stretch uses gravity to pull the stretch deeper into your posterior chain. It reaches into the lower back, hamstrings, and calves and will aid you in finding your sticky points.
- Type Of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Hamstrings, Glutes, Calves
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
Standing Pike
![Standing Pike 1 Standing Pike Beginning](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com//gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/standingPike-Christy-1.jpg)
![Standing Pike 2 Standing Pike End](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com//gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/standingPike-Christy-2.jpg)
![Standing Pike 3 Standing Pike](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com/gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Standing-Pike.jpg)
- Begin standing with your legs together.
- Keep your knees straight and fold forward, reaching toward the ground.
- Aim to lay your chest across your thighs as you hang freely.
- Hold this stretch for time.
![Standing Pike 4 2-Pike 2-Squat](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com//gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/HAMsSE7-2.jpg)
- Exercise: 2-Pike 2-Squat
- Type of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Hamstrings, Hips, Glutes, Calves
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
![Standing Pike 5 Kneeling Achilles](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com//gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/HAMsSE10-3.jpg)
- Exercise: Kneeling Achilles
- Type of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Ankles, Calves
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only