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.
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.
The culmination of the Waterfall Series on The Ladder, Around the World represents the most advanced and comprehensive core-strengthening exercise in this entire family. The height of The Ladder allows you to go well below the level of your pelvis and legs, creating an exceptionally challenging movement that demands exceptional control and strength from your entire core system.
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.