Prone Capsule
If you've been working your handstands, the prone capsule stretch will be an instant favorite. It stretches the rotator cuff muscles that stabilize and hold the shoulder capsule in place.
- Type Of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Shoulders
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
Prone Capsule
- Begin lying on your stomach with your right arm extended over head.
- Lift your right arm and torso slightly and thread your left arm through the space between your right armpit and the floor.
- Drop your chest down so you are now lying on top of your left arm, with your left shoulder in contact with the floor.
- Actively push your right shoulder toward the ground as you work to flatten your torso completely.
- Increase the stretch by sliding your left knee up so it is in line with your hips.
- Hold for time and repeat on the right.
- Exercise: Letter T
- Type of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Chest
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Cactus
- Type of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Shoulders, Chest
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Body Only
