Hips
Happy Baby Pose
Lie on your back with your spine flat on the floor. Bend your knees and bring them towards your chest, keeping your feet flat.
- Equipment
- No Equipment
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Focus Area
- Hips
- Injury risk
- Low
Primary muscles
- Adductor magnus
- Adductor longus
- Gracilis
- Semitendinosus
- Semimembranosus
- Biceps femoris
- Gluteus maximus
Secondary muscles
- Psoas major
- Iliacus
- Rectus abdominis
Target muscles
- hips
- glutes
- legs
How to perform
- 1
Lie on your back with your spine flat on the floor.
- 2
Bend your knees and bring them towards your chest, keeping your feet flat.
- 3
Open your knees wider than your torso, bringing them towards your armpits.
- 4
Reach for the outside edges of your feet or your ankles with your hands.
- 5
Gently pull your feet downwards, stacking your ankles directly over your knees.
- 6
Keep your lower back pressed into the floor and relax your shoulders.
- 7
Hold the stretch, breathing deeply, then slowly release.
Safety & form
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