Bent-leg Cossack

Today's video shows a major modification of the Cossack squat, and one that overcomes many of the limitations of the original. Shot in Regan's lovely studio (Google Haxby Pilates), we used her Matwork room to shoot a quick description of this new exercise. I will be recording and uploading this exercise to our Vimeo on Demand channel too, as a free download. I consider this part of both Master the Pancake as well as Master the Pike programs, as this movement targets the hamstrings and adductors both. The lovely aspect of this is that it uses the reciprocal inhibition reflex to get a deeper hamstring stretch than an ordinary stretch can. I do not describe this, but the usual contractions and re-stretches for the hamstrings can be added. Consider joining the Stretch Therapy Forums (www.kitlaughlin.com/forums). You only need a real email address to join and post your questions. If you write to me directly, I may ask you to join the Forums, and repost your questions on the there, so others may benefit. Much more information and many articles will be found on my Home page, too. http://www.stretchtherapy.net You can find the Forums link there too, and if you go to the "Five Rs" section, a large number of free audio relaxation sessions can be downloaded. Finally, you may care to have a look at my blog: http://kitlaughlin.wordpress.com/.