Lying Alternate Toe Touch Floor

Lie on your back with your legs extended and arms at your sides. Engage your core.

  1. Lift your right leg towards the ceiling while reaching your left hand towards your right toes.
  2. Lower your right leg and return to the starting position.
  3. Repeat on the opposite side, lifting your left leg and reaching with your right hand.
  4. Continue alternating sides for the desired number of repetitions.

How to perform the Lying Alternate Toe Touch Floor

  1. Set up. Set up in a stable, balanced starting position appropriate for the Lying Alternate Toe Touch Floor using your body weight.
  2. Brace and execute. Brace your core, control the descent, and move through a full pain-free range of motion while emphasizing your glutes.
  3. Reset. Reverse the movement under control and reset between repetitions, keeping your form crisp on every rep.

Coaching cues

  • Move with intent — every rep should feel deliberate, not rushed.
  • Drive force through your glutes rather than momentum.
  • Keep your breathing steady: exhale on the hard part, inhale on the reset.

Common mistakes

  • Using too much weight and losing positional control.
  • Cutting the range of motion short and missing the target muscle.
  • Letting your spine round or hyperextend instead of staying neutral.

Detailed cues, common mistakes, and demonstration video are available in the Fitly app.

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