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🔙 Cat-Cow Stretch

Alternately arch and round your back on all fours. Excellent for spinal mobility.

BackBeginnerMat3 × 10

How to do the Cat-Cow Stretch

  1. Start on hands and knees (tabletop)
  2. Inhale: drop belly, lift chest and tailbone (Cow)
  3. Exhale: round back, tuck chin and tailbone (Cat)
  4. Move smoothly and breathe

Form tips

  • Move through full available range
  • Quality over speed

Muscles worked

Erector spinae, Abdominals

When to be cautious

  • Acute disc herniation
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