Discover your next favorite move! Our Exercise of the Week features GYROTONIC®, strength, and kettlebell training exercises to boost your fitness.
A central part of the Wingmaster material are the 7 primal movements: push, rotation, pull, gait, hinge, squat and lunge. Gait, or stepping, is a very important primal movement to teach as people get older. As people age they often feel less stable when walking, stop using their ankles in their gate and start shuffling, taking more and smaller steps.More steps mean more changes to trip and fall and that’s bad.
My left shoulder has been a problem for me for a long time. When I was young it was very hypermobile, what some people would call “double jointed”. I could make the shoulder joint move without moving anything else. I’m also pretty sure when I had my car accident the shoulder was injured along with my neck and spine. It’s a frequent source of pain. This exercise has been helping alot lately.
There are 6 spinal ranges of motion. In our Activities of Daily Living, circumduction is the movement we most likely use the least. That doesn’t mean it has no value. This motion is excellent for the health of the intervertebral discs.
The Ladder and it’s updated version, the Archway, let you do movements that would be practically impossible to do any other way. Having the shoulder girdle be the static part of the body allows freer lower body movement. And having your pelvis up on the bolster lets your legs have a larger range of motion than you could do on the floor.