Discover your next favorite move! Our Exercise of the Week features GYROTONIC®, strength, and kettlebell training exercises to boost your fitness.
This is a fun “level 2” exercise. Level 2 workouts aren’t only about more difficult exercises but also how you put them together into long sequences and really uniting the timing and the breathing. I’m not even sure if “mess the hair” is what it’s called. But that’s one of the cues for the movement, “mess the hair/fix the hair”.
When you’re doing Levitation exercises on the Ladder you’re strengthening your posterior chain: primarily your back muscles and your glutes. And it’s called “levitation” because you’re floating up against gravity. Then wouldn’t using a strap be a little bit of a cheat?
This video makes the exercise look deceptively easy. There’s alot going on. One of the most important aspects of core strength is stability. In this exercise you’ve got to stabilize in all three planes of motion.
The Waterfall series on the Ladder or the Archway is the absolute best for pure front of the body core strengthening. While you’re working the same muscles as a sit-up or crunch, you’re asking your body to do the same thing in the opposite direction. The extra space you gain by being off the ground allows you to add fun variety, like Press Ups.