Sentences with phrase «lifting your chest forward»

Inhale: Lift your chest forward and up, pulling the shoulder blades down and lifting the chin slightly.

Grip your hands behind your thighs, close to your knees and hug the thighs into the hips whilst lifting the chest forward and up.

Not exact matches

Simply support the back of baby's head as you lean slightly forward to lift baby's head from your chest and turn her head the other direction as you resume your upright position.

Keep your chest, shoulders, and hips facing forward and your left leg straight and strong as you push your right foot into your right hand and lift your right leg up.

Bend the knees, take hold of the ankles, moving the shins back, the chest lifting forward into bow pose.

Lift your chest up, slightly arching your back as you press your back hip forward (c).

Inhale and lift your chest up and forward while pressing your palms into your buttocks to to exit.

Keep lower back long and lift through chest as you lower legs a little more toward the floor, gazing forward and keeping arms parallel.

Inhale, raising head to look forward; as you exhale, lift chest and legs off floor, clasping hands together behind back with arms extended.

Your role here is to help the lifter maintain a raised chest as the tendency when fatigue sets in is to collapse the core or trunk forward over the quads.

As you inhale lift up your chest and pull the sternum forward.

Slowly bring right leg forward and lift knee to chest while balancing on your left leg.

As I lifted my chest and pushed my pelvis forward, I felt the best shoulder and chest stretch of my life.

Move your hips forward to vertical over your knees, tuck your tailbone to release your lower back, and lift your middle and upper chest open with your breath.

Lift yourself up by pressing into your heels and driving your hips forward, keeping the back straight and chest parallel to the wall.

Inhale and lift your chest to reach up and forward, pressing the shoulder blades in against the back.

As you inhale, rise up onto the fingertips, lifting the chest halfway and then as you exhale, try to maintain that length and fold forward again.

Your next inhale brings you into a half lift with a long, straight spine; you may need to microbend slightly at the knees to get there; then exhale, plant your hands, and flow through your vinyasa, which is low plank, elbows grazing the sides of the rib cage, and inhaling upward - facing dog, moving your chest forward; then leading with the low belly pressing back to downward - facing dog.

Keeping your chest lifted and avoiding excessive forward bend, lower into a squat by pushing your hips back and bending your knees.

Keep your chest lifting at all times, don't round forward.

With your position now properly established, pitch forward at the waist while keeping the chest lifted — remember to keep the shoulders packed and to maintain crown to coccyx alignment.

Then move your shoulder blades forward to lift and open your chest and to help you elongate up through the crown of your head.

Keep the chest lifted and lean the torso forwards, stretch the right arm forward in front of the torso so it is parallel to the floor.

To reinforce the lift of your chest, release your shoulder blades down and draw their bottom tips toward each other and forward.

To arch your upper back more deeply, move your thoracic spine in toward your chest, strongly lifting your sternum and bringing it forward.

To release, lift chest up and bring left leg forward to gently release the strap from your foot.

Lift one leg up any amount, and fold the chest forward over the standing leg.

Enhance the arch of your thoracic spine by expanding your chest, lifting your sternum, and pulling the side ribs forward and up.

Take one step forward keeping your posture tall and your chest lifted, bring your opposite knee to your chest as high as you can and squeeze your butt and thigh as you do so.

Another example of an alignment that we often use is that the chest bones lifts up, and this prevents that stoop forward posture that is commonly seen in osteoporosis.

«Virabhadrasana I allows us to work toward moving the tailbone forward and lifting the torso out of the lower body — taking the head back safely, moving the shoulder blades forward toward the chest, and extending strongly through the arms.»

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(Weights in hand, extend right leg to back, lower chest parallel with floor; lift chest then kick extended leg forward.

The upper chest will lift off the ground and opens forward.

Push your hips forward so they are aligned over your knees and lift your chest toward the sky.

Stand up, lifting the bar off the floor while simultaneously exploding your hips forward into the bar and using your arms to pull the bar to your right shoulder so that the end of the barbell ends up in front of your chest and your elbows are underneath it.

Lift the chest bone up and square off the armpits forward.

Lift the outer corners of the shoulders up and move the chest bone forward, and gaze forward.

Standing behind dip station, squat and place hands on ground in front of you, jump legs back into plank position and do a push up, then jump legs back in and step or reach forward grasping handles of dip station and do a knee raise, straightening arms to lift yourself up off the floor, bending legs and bringing knees up towards chest as high as you can, then lower legs down to floor and step back behind dip station.

Lift your chest and head, and look forward.

Inhale, engage your belly, and lift your chest upward (but not forward) to come up - right.

Lifting your foot off the ground, reach your arms forward to hold your shin, and draw your knee gently toward your chest.

Movement 1 (Round back): Lengthen legs forward to 45 degrees, keep chest lifted.

Make sure left leg is straight, toes are pointed forward and chest is lifted (photo above, left).

Be sure to direct the toes straight forward (as opposed to turned out), and sit with tailbone toward the floor and chest lifted.