One-leg Bridge Exercise
By Dr. Christopher Notley
Start position
- Lay on your back with your knees bent and hands flat on the floor
- Perform a pelvic tilt and hold that position.
- Finish position
- Squeeze your buttocks
- Lift one foot off the ground.
- Lift your buttocks up off the ground until your thighs are inline with your torso.
- Hold this position
- Slowly slower back down to the start position
- Repeat
Alternatives
- If lifting one foot off the ground is easy straighten the leg out either straight ahead inline with your body or straight up in the air.
- Try performing this exercise while on a foam roller. It makes it more wobbly but that only works the muscles of your core that much more.
- Try performing this exercise while having your shoulders on a bosu ball, dynadisc or disc ‘o sit.
- Try adding an ankle weight onto your ankles or a weight onto your hips with a dumbbell or weight plate
© 2009 Dr. Christopher Notley