A couple things to note: this is a low back mobilization or lumbar mobilization more so than a stretch. This video demonstrates how to do the cat camel stretch, so please watch closely for the specific details. This exercise is a great warm up for any exercise routine, but especially for low back exercises and stretches. In this video you will learn how to do the cat camel exercise or stretch, which is a fantastic form of spinal mobilization, and one of the best overall lower back stretches. Just helping to mobilize, to warm up some of the joints in our spine.Īny questions about any of this, please ask.

This really shouldn’t take much longer than about a minute. I want to do about eight to 10 repetitions, just nice and easily. The cat camel stretch is designed to simply bringing motion into my spine, specifically in my lumbar spine. I’m not trying to push it as hard as I possibly can. About three or four seconds up about three or four seconds down, my head comes up, my back drops down. My head comes, up my back drops down into an arch, about three or four seconds, nice and slowly, nice and controlled. It then takes me about three or four seconds to come down, into the camel portion, nice and slowly. That movement going up should take 3-4 seconds. I’m going to first go into the cat, so I’m going to have my low back come up nice and slowly like this. This is a great mobilization to help mobilize your lower back area, specifically the joints in the lumbar spine.

Today we are focusing on the cat camel exercise or the cat camel mobilization.

Cat sis on back of neck