Step, Kick, Spiral with the Wingmaster in Setting 1 is an advanced culmination exercise — the kind you build toward throughout your training journey, both within individual sessions and across weeks of progressive work. This multi-planar movement combines cardiovascular challenge, dynamic balance work, and hamstring flexibility into one flowing, athletic sequence.
In almost every session I teach, I have my clients on their feet for at least one exercise. Most Activities of Daily Living are done when you’re on your feet so your training should prepare you for real life. Stepping, being one of the 7 Primal Movements, is an essential activity to train. A big upper body stretch while stepping really challenges balance and proprioception (awareness of the position and movement of the body).
A central part of the Wingmaster material are the 7 primal movements: push, rotation, pull, gait, hinge, squat and lunge. Gait, or stepping, is a very important primal movement to teach as people get older. As people age they often feel less stable when walking, stop using their ankles in their gate and start shuffling, taking more and smaller steps. More steps mean more changes to trip and fall and that’s bad.