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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.
Some exercises have cool names, like Dolphin, Waterfall or Cabbage Patch. The names of other exercises are simply the motions you do in the exercise. This exercise should have a cooler name.
Only 1 of the 6 spinal ranges of motion is also a primal movement, and that’s rotation. It’s the spinal motion we all use the most during activities of daily living. Even walking involves rotation. Yes when people think of “core exercises” they’re more likely to think of crunch style exercises, which focus on spinal flexion, than rotation exercises.
In the Wingmaster material, Settings 1 and 4 have the exact same set of exercises. They’re mirrors of each other, with the resistance coming from opposite directions. When I came up with the idea for Setting 4, it was to strengthen the core by making the muscles work in the opposite way they do in Setting 1.