1. Step forward with your right leg into a lunge, foot flat on the floor, knee bent 90 degrees

2. Place both your hands on the floor inside your right leg and allow yourself to feel a slight stretch in the hips

Targets: Hip flexors, glutes, hamstrings, quadriceps, lateral calf.

3. Lift your right hand off the floor, then, bending your right elbow, bring your elbow towards your right foot

4. Reach as far as you can without rounding back

Targets: Deeper into hip flexors, glutes, hamstrings, quadriceps, lateral calf.

5. Staying in a lunge position, rotate your upper body to the right, pressing through your left palm and lift your right arm straight to the ceiling

6. Look up at the arm above you, ensuring your back is straight and your core is engaged

Targets: Deepens hamstring and glutes; shoulders, pecs, upper and lower back, internal and external rotators of hips and obliques.

7. Twist again through the spine to return your right arm (with bent elbow) to the ground in front of you

8. Step back into the plank position, and repeat on your left side

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