Steal this Pilates teacher's signature four-move warm-up to safely mobilize your spine before exercise

A lot of us spend the majority of our lives in forward flexion.

We’re constantly hunched over our desks, slouching forward while driving or craning to scroll our phone screens.

Our spines are designed to tolerate this one-dimensional workload, but they are also equipped to handle backward extension, lateral flexion and rotation. You may like

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If we don’t use our spine to practice all of these movement patterns, it becomes stiff, sore and injury-prone.

Brett Starkowitz, head of education and master trainer at London's Ten Health & Fi