Dr. Andy Galpin

And I'm not going to go through all these, though I will make more available in the show notes.

So from a movement perspective, again, remember, we're looking at flexion, we're looking at lateral flexion, we're looking at extension and rotation, and then of course, the anti-movement in all of those areas.

So as easy example, one that we've been using very, very commonly, the classic flexion exercise are the crunches or the sit-ups.

There's also things like jackknives and other get your feet closer to your head kind of scenarios.

There's also then the anti-flexion exercises.

These are far less common.

You maybe have never done any of these or done a small amount of them, but these are things like the Paul Loft

posterior hold.

So the pull off spelled P-A-L-L-O-F exercise.

Again, you can look that up and it's the posterior or the back kind of version of that.

You'll also see things like a supine plank.

So for those of you that remember a little bit of your biomechanics, if I were to take your hands and hold your palms up to the sky, like you were holding a bowl of soup and you didn't want to spill it, that's what supine is.

And if you put your palms down to the ground,

That would be pronation.

So a supine plank is when you're actually the opposite.

So you're on your back and you're facing up in the air and then you're holding that.

So remember, you're doing anti-flexion.

You're not flexing up, but you're avoiding unnecessary flexion.

You do the same thing in a suspended fashion.

So you could do a suspended supine plank.