Contract your glutes and the muscles of your lower back and raise your head chest arms and legs off the floor.
Floor prone cobra exercise.
Begin exercise by raising your legs chest head and arms off the ground.
Extend your legs and plantar flex your ankles toes point away from body.
Extend your hips and spine so that your legs and torso rise off the floor and into the air.
How to do prone cobra.
Lie face down on an exercise mat with your legs straight and arms against your sides.
Simultaneously raise your arms and rotate your palms to face away from you point your thumbs into the air.
Lift upper body arms and legs simultaneously.
The palms lie on the floor.
Raise them as high as comfortably possible.
Stretch out the legs backward the arms are next to the body.
These muscles are involved in pushing the sternum chest bone forward and pulling the shoulder blades back.
Lie face down on the floor with your palms turned up toward the ceiling.
Raise your head and shoulders upward as far as you can go looking like a cobra ready to strike.
For this reason prone cobra extensions are a posture correction exercise for individuals with an increased kyphosis rounded upper back.
Inhale as you raise your body upward.
Core exercise lie facedown on the floor with your legs straight and your arms next to your sides palms down.
Lay your front on the floor or a fitness mat.
Lift your chest off the floor while keeping your neck elongated and the crown of your head lifted.
Brace the whole body.
How to do the prone cobra exercise lie face down on the ground with your arms out to your sides making a t shape with your body.
Prone cobra extensions are a beginners exercise for strengthening the lower trapezius and rhomboids muscles.
This is the key movement in the exercise.
Lift your chest off the floor and your torso upward.
Simultaneously rotate your arms so that your thumbs point toward the ceiling.
It is a slow and controlled motion.