When you lift your arms overhead in the pose, draw your tailbone toward the floor and imagine lifting
your torso out of your pelvis to stretch your psoas.
Not exact matches
Then, they added a scaled - up version
of the bones from a modern - day giraffe's
torso and
pelvis (gray); as it turns
out, all known extinct relatives
of today's giraffids (giraffes and okapi) have similarly shaped bodies.
And when you perform exercises in which the
torso is stationary and the
pelvis is pulled into the ribcage (e.g. ab wheel roll
out and hanging knee raise), the lower region
of the abs undergoes a greater amount
of shortening and is trained more effectively.
Do not let the
pelvis or
torso rotate to keep the effort in the right muscles and
out of the lower back.