How To Do The Plank Pose Video

The Plank Pose strengthens the arms and spine and prepares you for advanced yoga poses. Learn how to do the Plank Pose in this yoga video.

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Come into Table Top position
Lift knees in Plank Position
Breathe properly

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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. My name is Cindy Mastry and in this clip, Faith is going to be demonstrating plank pose for use. Plank pose is a stabilizing pose. It's going to increase your stamina and your energy. It requires a lot of energy to do it. So, we're going to ask Faith to come on with her hands and knees. Notice that her wrists are right under her shoulders and her knees are right under her hips. She going to spread her fingers wide and make sure she's pressing through all parts of her hand, so she doesn't put too much pressure into her wrists. She's going to crawl her toes under and lift her knees and extend into a plank. Notice how her belly is drawn in and then her butt is neither up in the air nor sagging down. She's finding on long line of energy from the heels to the crown of the head. She is pressing back into her heels and engaging her thighs, squeezing through the thighs, drawing her bellybutton in, inhaling, and she lengthens through the crown of the head, and as she exhales, I'm just going to have her bring her knees down. Still finding that planks, so bringing her hips forward, so she's still finding that one long line of energy. So, if you need to modify your plank pose, this would be where you would come, so, either on to your knees or extending the legs. Plank pose, a stabilizing pose requiring that you draw your bellybutton into your spine to use you belly to help you lengthen.

How to Do the Plank Pose Video

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