Overhead Stretch
beginnerstretchingstaticcompound


- Body part
- Waist
- Target
- Abdominals
- Equipment
- Body Weight
- Secondary
- Chest, Forearms, Lats, Triceps
Instructions
- 1Standing straight up, lace your fingers together and open your palms to the ceiling. Keep your shoulders down as you extend your arms up.
- 2To create a full torso stretch, pull your tailbone down and stabilize your torso as you do this. Stretch the muscles on both the front and the back of the torso.
Get this via the API
This exercise — and the full catalog of 873 — as structured JSON.
curl -H "X-API-Key: wk_live_…" \
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- Translate the response
/v1/exercises/overhead-stretch?lang=esLocalized name, description & steps — en · es · pt · fr - Every abdominals exercise
/v1/exercises?target=abdominalsFilter the catalog by the target muscle - Narrow by equipment & difficulty
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/v1/exercises/search?q=Overhead%20StretchTrigram + full-text ranking, accent-insensitive - Sort & paginate
/v1/exercises?sort=difficulty&order=desc&limit=25sort=name|difficulty · order · limit · offset · cursor
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- category
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- mechanic
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- q
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- lang
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Authentication
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Response
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Plans
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