- Start in half lunge, with your knee, shin, and ankle / foot in same line - Sit back and
slide front heel forward - Keep upper body bent forward with chest up as you slide forward - Then start with bent knee extended backwards and continue to push the knee further back as you improve - It's useful to have blocks or stools for elevated hand support
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Keep
your front heel flat on the ground (b).
Keep
the front heel flat and descend into a lunge, bringing your back knee towards the floor.
How - to: From a low lunge, roll your back heel to the ground, bring your fingers to the ground inside
your front heel, and reach your other arm straight past your ear.
Pause and drive through
your front heel to return back to the starting position.
Drive
your front heel into the floor to return to the starting position and repeat with the other leg.
The front heel is in line with the back arch.
Be sure to align
your front heel with your back arch, so it's as if you could draw a line down the center of your mat.
Pause for a second, then press back up through
your front heel and return to the starting position.
Draw your thighs back in line with the ankles so that the deepest part of the footprint falls where
the front heels meet the earth.
Drive up through
your front heel and explode backwards to the standing position.
Keep the torso straight and abs in as you push through
the front heel and back to starting position.
Keeping the abs engaged and the shoulders back, push into
the front heel and lift up about halfway.
Press off from
that front heel.
Pause, then push through
your front heel to stand up, rolling the top of your foot back onto the ball (c).
Just make sure when you step backward, you keep your weight in
your front heel (remember to do the toe - wiggle, like with squats), so when you bend your knees into the lunge, your front knee remains behind your toes, and aligned with your toes.
As always, remember to keep your weight in
your front heel and your torso upright and straight as you lunge.
Lower the back knee toward the floor, keeping
the front heel down and the knee directly over the center of the foot.
Practice this pose on a bare floor (without a sticky mat) with folded blankets under the back knee and
front heel.
To come out, press your hands to the floor, turn the front leg out slightly, and slowly return
the front heel and the back knee to their starting positions.
Drive up from
the front heel and you can feel the glutes engaged, especially on the front leg.
Her advice for doing this exercise includes pressing off
your front heel to avoid injury:
Push down through
your front heel as you slowly stand back up.
Align
your front heel with your back arch.
Squeeze your shoulder blades together and then lower the weights, pushing off with
your front heel to return to standing.
Press through
the front heel to come back to the original position.
Press evenly through the center of
your front heel and the outer edge of your back foot.
Press through
your front heel to return to the start position, but continue raising the knee of the back leg as high in front of you as you can.
Take a giant step back with one leg and lower both knees to 90 degrees, keeping your weight in
your front heel.