Crawling Exercises – 21 Fun Crawls To Include In Your Workouts

Crawling Exercises – 21 Fun Crawls To Include In Your Workouts

Crawling – it seems like such an easy movement, but not only does it take more coordination than we realize but it is also a great full-body workout.

Crawling exercises are important to include in your workout routine because they are functional bodyweight exercises that can improve your core strength, coordination, and even your mobility.

Plus crawling is an amazing cardio workout that you can do anywhere.

Here are 21 Crawling Exercises to strengthen your entire body while getting your heart rate up. These crawling exercises are great for everyone from the beginner to the advanced exerciser and can be regressed and progressed as necessary. Using a combination of these moves in your workouts, will help you get in a great cardio workout while working your body in every plane of motion.

Even though babies can do it, crawling is far from easy and is sure to challenge your entire core!

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Crawling – A Full Body Cardio Exercise

Crawling – A Full Body Cardio Exercise

Crawling – Once we learned how to walk, we thought we would never go back.

We’d found a much easier more efficient way to get around and we could run, which got us places faster.

So why on earth would we go back to crawling?!?

Because it is a great full body cardio exercise! And it’s a really hard one at that! (Plus you can do it anywhere even if you don’t have a ton of space!)

It’s so hard that many of us can’t really remember how to get our bodies to do the movement. We lack the coordination we once had.

Once we learn how to crawl again, not only can we improve our coordination, but we can also strengthen our core and improve our cardiovascular conditioning.

Here’s how to do a basic crawl and some regressions and fun variations to get you started!

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