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rigs as animated stick figures on the exercise screen. Exercises gain
a warm-up/main-circuit category, timed exercises display hold time via
planSummary, and a completed exercise reopens to a check screen instead
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Dead Bug

Anti-extension drill — the limbs move while the trunk stays perfectly still.

  • Category: Warm-up
  • Type: Anti-extension
  • Targets: Deep core (transverse abdominis), hip flexor control
  • Prescription: 8 per side, slow and controlled

Setup

Lie on your back. Arms straight up over the shoulders, hips and knees bent to 90°, lower back pressed into the floor.

Execution

  1. Brace and exhale as you lower one arm overhead and the opposite leg toward the floor.
  2. Stop just before the lower back peels off the floor.
  3. Return under control and switch sides.

Cues

  • Lower back glued to the floor the entire time — that contact is the exercise.
  • Slow negatives; the reach out should take 23 seconds.
  • Ribs down, no flaring as the arm goes overhead.

Common Mistakes

  • Arching the lower back as the leg lowers.
  • Moving arm and leg on the same side.
  • Rushing reps and turning it into a flutter kick.

Progression

Heels sliding on floor → bent-knee reach → straight-leg reach → both legs lowering together → light weight held overhead