Exercise of the Week

Discover your next favorite move! Our Exercise of the Week features GYROTONIC®, strength, and kettlebell training exercises to boost your fitness.

Snow angel with leg pump

Exercise of the Week: Snow Angel with leg pump

Snow Angel with Leg Pump

I have a client with persistent low back pain. Our sessions are often “immediately corrective”. In other words, how can I help her be out of pain this morning so she can have a better day. But in the long term her issue was not improving. I thought about parts of GYROTONIC® training I haven’t used yet in our sessions and decided to practice the Sciatica Combination to see if I thought it could help. As I lay in the position for those exercises I thought “What else can be done here?”

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Upper Body Series - Simple Twist & Pull

Exercise of the Week: Simple Twist & Pull from the Upper Body Series

Simple Twist & Pull

Some families of exercises and then some exercises within those families, are what I consider “bread & butter” exercises. Simple Twist & Pull is one of my bread & butter exercises.  It’s one of my overall favorites.

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Gyrotonic EOW: Free Shoulder Circles from the Upper Body Series

Free Shoulder Circles from the Upper Body Series

Another great exercise that doesn’t have a name befitting it’s awesomeness.

Normally, the exercises in the Upper Body Series use a backrest. But in this version you have no back rest, so you’re “free”. Hence the name I gave it here. It likely has another name elsewhere and I hope it’s cooler than that name.

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Exercise of the Week: Back Leg Pedal

Exercise of the Week: Back Leg Pedal from the Hamstring Series

Back Leg Pedal from the Hamstring Series

Most of the exercises in the Hamstring Series are done while you’d laying on your back. But like on The Ladder, there are a few exercises when you’re side lying. This allows you to move in multiple planes of motion at once.

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