How To Do The Plank Pose In Vinyasa Yoga Video

The Plank Pose is used to increase strength and can be adjusted for varying levels of endurance. Learn how to do the Plank Pose in Vinyasa yoga in this fitness video.

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Increase endurance
Work entire body
Use Table Top position
Lift knees
Reach legs back

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Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, she teaches aerobics, kickboxing, and yoga at many fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area. Cindy trained with 84 year-old Master Yogi Monk, Baba Hari Dass at the Mt. Madonna Center in California and owns/operates "Yoga Etc Studio" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cindy teaches yoga to people of all ages and experience levels and at very competitive rates.

CINDY MASTRY: Namaste. The plank pose is a stabilizing pose that is going to help you increase endurance, stability, stamina, work your shoulder, work your abdominals, work your thighs, just work about everything. So we are going to have [PH] Faith demonstrate the plank pose for us. She is going to come into tabletop. We want to make sure that her wrists are aligned right underneath her shoulders, and that her fingers are spread wide. She wants to make sure she does not put too much weight in her wrist so she wants to put the weight in her thumb and forefinger, the finger pads, not a lot of weight in those wrists, good. She is going to lift her knees and reach her legs back. So she is reaching back through her heels as if she were pressing her heels into the wall. We are looking for spinal stability, length through the spine. She is drawing her belly button into her spine and drawing her pubic bone towards her belly button keeping her shoulders spread wide. This pose requires a lot of strength, a lot of breath, notice how she is lengthening out through the crown of the head. She can go ahead and put her knees down, good, but we want to maintain that same plank. This would be half plank so that if you do get tired and you find yourself breathing really heavy, we do not want to cause stress, then you can just drop your knees down and come into half plank but notice still how her spine is long and her head is an extension of the spine. Thank you [PH] Faith. So the plank pose is a pose all about stability. It is going to increase your stamina, it is going to increase your shoulder strength, it is going to increase your leg strength, and it is going to work your abs.

How to Do the Plank Pose in Vinyasa Yoga Video

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