Bicycles from the Leg Lift series on the Gyrotonic Ladder

Exercise of the Week – Bicycles from the Ladder Leg Lift Series

Leg Lift Bicycles: Your Key to a Stronger Core and Better Posture.

Combat Forward Head Posture & Low Back Pain with This Total Body Exercise.

The GYROTONIC® Ladder is a core strengthening masterpiece. Depending on how you place yourself on the Ladder, you’ll strengthen your core with a focus in one of the three planes of motion: front to back, side to side or with rotation. And while you’re moving in one of the planes of motion (sometimes two), you have the stabilize your body in the other plane(s). You’re getting active and static core strength and every exercise is total body.

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Wingmaster Setting 3 Canoeing

Wingmaster Setting 3 – Canoeing

Canoeing with the Gyrotonic Wingmaster in Setting 3

Canoeing is an exercise from the Upper Body Series. Like much of the material in the Wingmaster course, when I developed this exercise I thought “How did no one think of  doing this before me?” A big portion of the Wingmaster material is previously existing material re-imagined for the Wingmaster.

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Core strength with Around the World on the Gyrotonic Ladder

Waterfall Series – Around the World

Waterfall Series – Around the World

The height of the ladder allows you to go well below the level of your pelvis and legs, creating a much more challenging exercise. It’s difficult to control your body as you’re lowering and even harder to bring yourself back up.

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Wingmaster Setting 1 – Looking for Freedom standing

Wingmaster Setting 1 – Looking for Freedom, standing

Doing exercises on your feet is essential training for basic life. Most activities of daily living involve being on your feet. What this exercise adds to the standing position is a hip hinge, which is one of the 7 primal movements. Primal movements are the building blocks of how we learn to move naturally as we develop when we’re infants and toddlers.

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