Core muscle strength and control workout

This is a mat based class focused on challenging your core muscle strength and control

• Difficulty: Moderate
• Length: 33 minutes

The class starts in sitting then continues down onto our backs and sides. This class includes:

• Sitting ‘Y’ stretch
• Sitting spine twist
• Oblique roll backs
• Half roll backs
• Bridging with leg extensions
• Scissors
• Double leg extension with arm reaches
• Opposite arm and leg stretch
• Side kick
• Leg lift sideways
• Glute and Hamstring stretches
• Sitting bow and arrow stretch

The class starts in sitting with some gentle upper body stretches. We then work our core and abdominals with some oblique roll backs and half roll back movements. Coming down from sitting onto our backs we continue to work on our deep abdominal core muscles with exercises including Bridging, scissors, double leg extensions and opposite arm and leg movements.

Moving onto our side we strengthen our core and glutes with a side kick and leg lift sideways movements before cooling down with some leg and upper body stretches.

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