Core · Bodyweight
Standing Back Rotation Stretch
How to do the standing back rotation stretch, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Logged as
- time
- Movement
- Rotation
- Mechanic
- Isolation
How to do it
Stand tall with feet shoulder-width apart and a soft bend in your knees. Keeping your hips facing forward, slowly rotate your torso to one side, letting your arms swing around naturally. Feel the stretch through your waist and lower back, hold briefly, then rotate to the other side.
- 1A stretch through your waist and obliques as you turn
- 2Your hips staying square while your torso rotates
- 3Your spine moving smoothly through the twist
Common mistakes
- Swinging violently or wrenching the rotation
- Letting your knees and hips spin with you
- Rotating from the lower back instead of the mid-spine
Muscles worked
The standing back rotation stretch mainly works the obliques, with the lower back, upper abs, and lower abs assisting.
- ObliquesPrimary
- Lower BackSupport
- Upper AbsSupport
- Lower AbsSupport
- LatsMinor
- GlutesMinor
Kovo programs the standing back rotation stretch for you and tracks it every session.
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Last reviewed June 2026.