Side Forearm Plank

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STEPS :

1. Engage your abdominal muscles, drawing your navel toward your spine.
2. Lift your hips and knees from the mat while exhaling. Your torso is straight in line with no sagging or bending. Hold the position.
3. After several breaths, inhale and return to the starting position. The goal should be to hold for 60 seconds. Change sides and repeat.

Benefits

• Calms the brain and helps relieve stress and mild depression.
• Stretches the shoulders, hamstrings, calves, and arches.
• Strengthens the arms and legs.
• Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause.
• Helps prevent osteoporosis.
• Improves digestion.
• Relieves headache, insomnia, back pain, and fatigue.
• Therapeutic for high blood pressure, asthma, flat feet, sciatica.

Who Can Do

Consult a doctor before beginning an exercise regime.