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Open book
Intermediate10 repsNo jumping
How to do it
- Basic exercise
- Focus: enhances thoracic mobility and
- spinal segmentation while opening the shoulders and chest.
- **Position:**kneeling on the floor with your right side facing a wall. Hips are square and stable, with the right knee down and the left foot forward. Lengthen your spine and align your head comfortably.
- Begin with your arms relaxed and open in front of your chest, palms
- facing each other and hands apart.
- Inhale
- to initiate the movement, allowing your left arm —the one farther from
- the wall— to open outward and backward. Lead the twist from your thoracic
- spine, rotating your upper back progressively while keeping your pelvis
- still.
- Exhale as you complete the rotation, guiding your left hand
- toward the wall as your gaze follows your hand.
- Return by inhaling and
- slowly bringing your arm forward, reversing the spinal rotation segment
- by segment.
- Repeat on the opposite side.
- Progression
- **Position:**kneeling on the floor with your right side facing a wall. Left knee down and right foot forward.
- Before the basic exercise: inhale, exhalewhile moving the right arm along the wall with a circle upwards and backwards, inhalewhile bringing back the arm.
- Basic exercise.
- Repeat on the opposite side.
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