Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / recovery
Child's Pose
Knees wide, hips toward heels, arms long, forehead relaxed.
Muscles
- Primary
- lats
- Supporting
- traps, erector spinae, glutes
Mechanics
- Pattern
- static stretch
- Equipment
- bodyweight
- Geometry
- Variable Range
- Energy model
- Aerobic Stability (>90s)
- Target feel
- Lats and upper back lengthen while breathing expands the ribs.
- Progression
- Walk hands to each side to bias one lat.
- Regression
- Put a pad under knees or elevate hands.
Watch for
- Hips floating high
- Shrugging shoulders into ears
Substitutions
- Supine lat stretch
- Thread the Needle
- T-spine back roll