Standing Single Leg Pike
The Standing Single Leg Pike stretch uses gravity to pull the stretch deeper into your posterior chain. Because it pressed into one leg at a time, the intensity of the stretch increases.
- Type Of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Hamstrings, Glutes, Calves
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Body Only, Yoga Block
Standing Single Leg Pike (Right Side)
- Begin standing about one foot from a wall, facing away.
- Bend your left knee and place your shin on the wall behind you.
- Fold down into a pike stretch, reach toward the floor, and press your hips back toward your left heel and the wall.
- Before folding too deep, be sure you have an anterior pelvic tilt (APT).
- Use your hands and props if necessary to maintain balance and lengthen your torso along your right leg.
- Hold a comfortable, yet challenging single leg pike for time.
- Exercise: Wide Hurdler
- Type of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Hamstrings, Glutes, Calves
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only, Yoga Block
- Exercise: Bent Vertical Lunge
- Type of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Hips, Quadriceps
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Body Only
