F 16 Front Lunge Torsion EN

From standing, shift the weight to the right leg, bending the knees, hinging, taking that left leg long back as far as you can go, starting to bend that right knee, lowering the hips.

We’re trying to work toward a more or less a 90 degree angle with that right knee and on to the high up onto the tip toe of that back foot.

Check the back leg to make sure that it’s straight, that the knees not bent and compensate a little bit by moving the upper torso forward to sort of align or compensate based on the tightness of the hip flexor of that left extended leg.

Keep the upper torso forward here as you activate the legs away from each other.

Make sure not to open that left hip out to the side here.

Keep the hips square and forward.

The feet are hips width apart here.

Activate both legs as you lift the sternum forward and up for a second here. the arms out to the side, shoulders height, palms facing forward.

Now what we want to do here is keep the arm height nice and active, draw the shoulders down towards the hips and the back of the neck extends, crown of the head extends, allow for the upper torso to come forward so that the back line is in line with that back leg.

Then we start to turn from the center of the chest as the initiating movement center to the right side only as as far as we feel is possible with the control.

Now to actively release here, we’re extending the arms out to the side as we draw the shoulders down.

And again, initiating the movement from the center of the chest back to the center.

And then allowing for the arms to drop down as we lift up a little bit, transfer the weight to the right leg and then step the left leg forward to a standing position and relax.