Cat Stretch
The Cat Stretch is a gentle, but effective way to acquire overhead shoulder mobility. This stretch should open shoulders that collapse forward. For desk-bound workers, this will initially be challenging. This stretch needs to stay out of the lower back and bend the upper thoracic and shoulders instead. If you are having trouble with your handstand line, cat stretches are one of the most effective ways to correct it.
- Type Of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Shoulders
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
Cat
- Begin kneeling with your hips above your knees.
- Slide your hands out in front of you straightening your elbows and shrugging your shoulders to your ears as your chest drops close to the floor.
- Keep your hips over your knees and continue to stretch your chest and arms toward the floor as you hold for time.
- Exercise: Xiaopeng Backward
- Type of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Shoulders
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Dumbbell
- Exercise: Reach Underneath
- Type of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Trapezius, Shoulders
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
