March MATness – Single Leg Kick and Double Leg Kick
Single Leg Kick
- Lie on your stomach with your upper body propped up on your elbows
- Actively pull your abdominals in, anchor your pubic bone into the mat and squeeze your thighs together
- Squeeze your glutes and try to lift your legs a few inches away from the mat
- Keeping the legs lifted and thighs tightly squeezing together kick your right heel in towards your glutes, actively press the leg away and switch sides. Repeat 6x on each side
Double Leg Kick
- Lie on your stomach with the head resting on the right cheek, hands interlaced behind the back as far as you can reach with the elbows reaching towards the mat and the legs actively squeezing together
- Squeeze your glutes and lift the legs a few inches away from the mat – keep them actively squeezing as if they were one leg
- Inhale as you kick both the legs in towards the seat 3x
- Actively press the legs away from the body as you extend your arms down the back of the thighs lifting the chest
- Exhale as you rest to the mat turning the head to the left cheek. Repeat 3 sets
