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For menOn hands and knees

Cat-Cow

A floor back and core exercise from the men’s track. Start on all fours with your hands under your shoulders and knees under your hips.

Times practiced[1]
894
Men’s popularity[2]
#53of 140
Days per active week[3]
1.0days
Difficulty[4]
1/ 5
Clarity[5]
5/ 5
In a workout[6]
30 sec

Practice history: September 28 – October 25, 2026. What do these numbers mean?

How to do it

  1. Start on all fours with your hands under your shoulders and knees under your hips.

  2. Alternate between rounding your spine with your chin tucked and arching as you lift your chest and tailbone.

What you should feel

Your whole spine moving and loosening, with a gentle stretch through your back and abs.

About these numbers and scores

Practice history covers September 28 – October 25, 2026. Difficulty and clarity come from the app’s exercise content.

  1. Times practiced. One record per exercise per saved workout. We count the exercise when it is marked complete, the workout is marked complete and its logged duration is positive. This movement has 894 counted records in this window. A repeated practice in another workout adds another record. Zero means no qualifying record was found in this window.
  2. Popularity. A count ranking within the men’s track. Only exercises with counted practices are ranked; equal counts share a place. Plan placement and repeat users affect the ranking.
  3. Days per active week. We count different local practice dates for each account in each Monday–Sunday week, then average those counts. Only weeks when that account practiced this exercise are included. Here that is 891 account-days ÷ 871 active account-weeks. We show the average when at least 10 accounts contributed. It describes this history; it is not a recommended weekly schedule.
  4. Difficulty. 1/5 — lowest demand on the app’s content scale. Higher means more demanding. This is a fixed exercise score; it is not calculated from usage or a personal assessment.
  5. Clarity. 5/5 — clearest to follow on the app’s content scale. It describes how clearly the instructions and demonstration specify the movement. This is a content score, not a percentage of users who understood it or an average user review.
  6. In a workout. The movement’s default time block in the app. Pauses and settings can change elapsed practice time. It is not a repetition count.

These are saved app records, not verified repetitions or movement quality. Anonymous, unsynced and deleted histories can be missing. Accounts are not a one-to-one count of people, and this snapshot has no comprehensive staff/test-account exclusion.

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Try instead

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Workouts with this exercise

Ready-made sessions that include cat-cow.

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Plans with this exercise

Guides for this practice