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How to Do Dancer's Stretch

Step-by-step instructions, muscles worked and workouts that use the dancer's stretch.

How to do it

1. Sit up on the floor.
2. Cross your right leg over your left, keeping the knee bent. Your left leg is straight and down on the floor.
3. Place your left arm on your right leg and your right hand on the floor.
4. Rotate your upper body to the right, and hold for 10-20 seconds. Switch sides.

Form tips

• Start light and own the movement before adding weight.
• Control the lowering phase — don't drop into it.
• Keep breathing; exhale on the hardest part.
• Stop if you feel sharp pain (different from muscle burn).

Workouts with this exercise

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Gear for this exercise

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Exercise photos and instructions: free-exercise-db (public domain). Animation made from the real start and end photos.