THE DART

This exercise strengthens your back-extension muscles and opens your shoulder blades, which helps correct hunched shoulders WHAT TO DO

✓ Lie prone, on your stomach, with your arms next to your side and your palms facing up (toward the ceiling).

✓ Tuck your chin down, and place your forehead on the ground.

✓ Pull your navel to your spine as if you were trying to lift your stomach off the ground.

✓ Squash your legs together as tightly as possible without lifting them off the ground.

✓ Raise your upper body together with your arms off the ground, keeping your arms tucked in at your sides.

✓ Hold the position for 10 seconds, and repeat three to five times.

LOOK OUT FOR

✓ Try to keep your stomach contracted as much as possible to prevent your lower back from overworking and hurting.

✓ You don’t have to lift your body very high to get a workout – think quality not quantity.

✓ Pull your arms away from your ears toward your feet.

✓ Keep your chin tucked in so as not to strain your neck.