The back bridge mobility exercise
The back bridge exercise is a whole body movement that targets your posterior muscle chain, while it mobilizes and stretches your anterior muscle chain. Its an effective mobility movement which strengthens and mobilizes your shoulder, traps, erector spinae, glutes and hamstrings, while you stretch your pecs, abs, hip flexors and quads. If you do the back bridge as a reverse push up you will work on your mobility and strength which I think is more beneficial than holding the bridge position for flexibility stretching.
I find it useful to include the Reverse Plank exercise as companion to the back bridge as it will target your entire posterior chain.
Reverse Plank Exercise explained and demonstrated by Calimove: https://invidious.private.coffee/watch?v=ABzfaaVlZIU
Both are great to include in a morning mobility routine, do the bridge one day and the reverse plank the next day, etc. For me the bridge have helped a lot with shoulder mobility and stretching of the back while engaging the muscles. But it is challenging, hard to achieve full bridge. I'm not fully there with the reverse push-up yet, but its my next progression.
The guys at calimove have awesome mobility and calisthenic videos, great teachers and demonstrators of exercises.
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