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Ben Greenfield teaches side-plank holds: rotate from push-up position, keep hips square and high, squeeze glutes, and push through your shoulder. The key is locking your body straight without sinking or rotating.

Ben Greenfield teaches side-plank holds: rotate from push-up position, keep hips square and high, squeeze glutes, and push through your shoulder. The key is locking your body straight without sinking or rotating.
For the side support hold. You're going to get into a push up position. You're going to rotate on your side. You want to make sure your hips are square. You don't want them facing down and you don't want to be sitting back. The other thing you don't want to be doing is sinking in your hips. Okay. We're always activating our core, always. And then also we're pushing out of our shoulder. Lift this arm up, extend and we hold. This foot.
Is resting on this. We're also balancing.
Switch sides.
Square, body tight.
It always helps to squeeze your bottom anytime you're in a straight body position. That locks you in.

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