Kneel on your knees, touch the ground on all fours, keep your arms straight, press your hands down, put your feet behind the ground, and your toes naturally lean back.
Cats need continuous support of limbs to imitate animals.
Generally speaking, as long as the standing posture is released, most of the pressure on the lumbar spine can be released, and cat crawling can also achieve this function.
From the basic anatomical understanding, cat crawling can improve the strength of deltoid muscle, serratus anterior muscle and pectoral muscle, and then improve the stability of shoulder joint. In order to control the body rotation when crawling, we will practice the strength of abdominal oblique muscle, rectus abdominis muscle and transverse abdominis muscle, which will help to improve the stability of the trunk. The stability of the trunk will accidentally lead to the stability of the lower limbs, thus reducing the sports safety risk.
If you have a better proprioception, you will find that cats have actually practiced crawling all over their bodies, including their wrists and ankles.
Advantages of being a cat crawler:
All crawling movements are the early stages of human development. Before walking, crawling is the most basic exercise mode for everyone. Crawling needs the same flexibility and stability as walking and running. During training, crawling can amplify the requirements for flexibility and stability, and help you improve your walking and running functions. At the same time, climbing can also be used as a means to improve and detect the stability of trunk rotation symmetry.
The key point is that if we expand the anatomy a little, all the muscles of the body are wrapped together by a connective tissue called fascia in a certain order and direction. Muscle and fascia are collectively referred to as myofascia. Judging from the fascia chain, the main muscles involved in cat crawling are chest, abdomen and serratus anterior.