Up Stretch Series

Okay. This is the stretch series. So Christie, could you please stand up onto the reformer? We have a red and a blue spring on the reformer hooked up. Some people like to do it a little lighter for me, I'm more comfortable just on a red spring. So play with what works best for you. So Chrissy will step her. She'll put her hands on the foot bar and she'll step her feet about halfway up the shoulder blocks. So once she's there, she's going to get into a really flat back.

And what we're looking for here is that from the hands all the way up to the pelvis, she's in a nice straight line or a little rotated. Okay? So the first exercise, the ops stretch one, the goal here is to maintain this spinal orientation and just take the legs back and in and take it the legs back. And as her legs come in, she's drawing her scapula actually off or down her back. And in this relationship it feels kind of like up towards the Polish. She's doing a beautiful job stabilizing.

The next exercise is the up stretch to upstretched shoes. A little trickier because we have to organize around the shoulder joint. So Christie's gonna keep her shoulder joint in my hands as she takes the carriage out and brings her body into a plank. Then she stays with me here. So essentially what's happening is the head's coming up in the pelvis is going down, lift your left hip a little, and then she comes back up.

So she pivots around the shoulder joint, head comes up, hips go down, that's better. And then she pivots around the shoulder joint and to lift up the breath is inhale into plank. Exhale into up stretch. Now for the up stretch three we go back through the ups stretch too. We come forward through the long stretch and then pike back up into the up stretch one. So in order to do the up stretch three, well you have to know the up stretch, what you have to know, the UB stretch two you have to know the long stretch. And then once you know all those things, you already know the op stretch three let's do one more.

OBS stretch too long. Stretch back into the up stretch one. Thank you Christie. Very well done.