High Lunge
Benefits:
- Increases hip and shoulder mobility
- Improves core strength
- Develops body awareness
Cues:
- Start in a runner's lunge
- Your front foot pointed straight forward feeling strongly into the four corners of the feet
- Your knee is directly in line with your ankle ensuring that you can see your toes in front of your knee
- Ensure you are on the ball of your back foot and pressing through the heel
- Square your hips feeling as if your front hip is moving back and your back hip is moving forwards
- On an inhale with a strong core and long spine come up with the upper extending the arms overhead as if you were in extended mountain
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Anatomy
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