Straddle Hollow Body Hold
The Straddle Hollow Body Hold strengthens everything from fingertips to toes, building a strong bodyline and giving your transverse abdominis the core endurance of a gymnast. Each progression makes your core increasingly more stable, and this one in particular activates the medial glutes as well.
- Type Of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals, Hips
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
Straddle Hollow Body Hold
- Lie on your back with your legs straddled wide and arms by your sides.
- Initiate the hold by pressing your low back firmly into the floor and lifting your legs just off the ground.
- Simultaneously bring your shoulder blades off the ground and, as you do so.
- Do not allow your lower back to lose contact with the floor.
- Straddle wider to more strongly target your hips.
- Hold this position for time.
- Exercise: Bent Hollow Body Hold
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Hollow Body Hold
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
