Lats · Body weight · Beginner
How to do Side Lying Floor Stretch
The side lying floor stretch is a bodyweight exercise targeting the lats, with secondary emphasis on the obliques and glutes. It is performed lying on your side, reaching overhead, and lifting the bottom leg to create a stretch along the side of the body.
- Primary muscle
- Lats
- Also works
- Obliques and Glutes
- Equipment
- Body weight
- Level
- Beginner
- Category
- Back
How to do Side Lying Floor Stretch, step by step
- Lie on your side with your legs straight and your bottom arm extended straight overhead.
- Bend your top knee and place your foot on the ground in front of your bottom leg.
- Reach your top arm over your head and grab onto something stable, like a wall or a piece of furniture.
- Slowly lift your bottom leg off the ground, keeping it straight, until you feel a stretch in your side.
- Hold the stretch for 20-30 seconds, then slowly lower your leg back down.
- Repeat on the other side.
Track Side Lying Floor Stretch in SPLYT
Side Lying Floor Stretch is already in SPLYT’s exercise library. Log your sets, reps and weight on iPhone or Apple Watch, with last time’s weights already filled in.
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