This ZERO-Equipment Exercise Works Everything, But Even Better...
✅ Improved coordination: Crawling, like running, walking, and many other human locomotion activities, is a contralateral movement. Put simply; you’re moving your opposite arm and an opposite leg on the floor with the pull of gravity, thus improving the coordination between your upper and lower body.
✅ Core Strength: For your spine to stay neutral and your hips not to say side-to-side, your anterior core and lower back contract isometrically to prevent this from happening. Think of crawls as a moving plank, but only harder. This builds a stronger lower back!
✅ Improved Conditioning and Muscular Endurance: You’ll notice one thing when crawling on the floor: your heart rate will go up. The opposite arm, opposite leg movement, and the constant tension on your entire body make crawling a legit exercise to improve your conditioning and endurance. It sure does beat the treadmill!
✅ Better Hip And Shoulder Mobility: Hip flexors, glutes, and deltoids are the main drivers for crawling. Extending and flexing your hips and shoulders, combined with time under tension for those muscles, will strengthen them and help improve their overall movement. This, over time, equals better movement! This is so important as we age.
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Doing 2-3 sets of 15-30 seconds sounds "easy", but don't be fooled.