Pancake Good Morning
The Pancake Good Morning is an active mobility exercise, rather than a simple passive stretch. While it does stretch the groin, inner thighs, and hamstrings, it also requires active engagement through the groin. By using active stretching, the hip joint is strengthened and reinforced.
- Type Of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Hips, Hamstrings
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only, Yoga Block
Pancake Good Morning
- Sit in a straddle on the floor with your hips at approximately a 90-degree angle.
- Point your knees to the ceiling, lock them, engage your quads, and point your toes.
- Interlock your fingers behind your head and sit up completely straight with an anterior pelvic tilt (APT).
- If you cannot sit upright in this position, elevate your hips as high as necessary to achieve APT in this start position.
- Now hinge forward at your hips and descend with a flat back until your chest makes contact with the floor, or your lowest position.
- Do not allow your legs to lose tension or roll inward as you fold.
- Pause at the bottom momentarily, smoothly raise back up to the start position, and repeat for reps.
- Maintain APT throughout.
- Exercise: Side Pancake
- Type of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Hips, Hamstrings, Abdominals
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Floating Pancake
- Type of Exercise: Mobility
- Muscles: Hips, Hamstrings
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only, Yoga Block
