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Exercise of the Week: Leg Lifts with Rotation on the Ladder

Leg Lifts with Rotation on the Ladder

The Ladder and it's updated version, the Archway, let you do movements that would be practically impossible to do any other way. Having the shoulder girdle be the static part of the body allows freer lower body movement. And having your pelvis up on the bolster lets your legs have a larger range of motion than you could do on the floor.

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Boxing from the Waterfall series on the Ladder

Exercise of the Week: Waterfall Boxing

Boxing from the Waterfall series on the Ladder

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.

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Wingmaster S$ Simple Twist & Pull

Gyrotonic Exercise of the Week: Wingmaster Setting 4 Simple Twist & Pull

Wingmaster Setting 4 - Simple Twist and Pull

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.

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