Levitation with Rotation: Back Strength Beyond the Roman Chair

Why Adding Spirals Transforms a Simple Back Lift

A back lift exercise like this is something you’d see in a traditional gym setting. There is a piece called a Roman Chair and you can do a lift like we do in the Leviation Series on the GYROTONIC® Ladder. But what you’ll almost never see is adding a second spinal range of motion to the back lift. In Gyrotonic training on the Ladder and Archway, you can add spirals, like in this exercise, as well as side bends and circumduction.

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Climbing the Straps from the Levitation series on the Gyrotonic Ladder

Levitation Series on the Ladder – Climbing the straps

Climbing the straps from the Levitation series on the Ladder

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?


It could but it isn’t in this case.

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