Audio Title: L-Sit Progressions How to Do a Perfect L-Sit
Audio Duration: 0:03:55 Number of Speakers: 1
Transcript
Hey, I’m Ryan from Gold Medal Bodies.
Today I’m going to share a few tips with you that’s going to help you with your L-sit.
Let’s get started.
The L-sit is a great move that’s going to help strengthen your arms, your core, and
also your legs if done properly.
Today I’m going to take you through a couple of progressions that you can use, if you’re
having trouble with the L-sit.
As long as you work with these progressions, go slow with them and don’t try and rush
into the more advanced movements.
You will get the L-sit.
Even if you do have the L-sit already, you can use some of these progressions, work on
those and it will help you make your L-sit even better.
So let’s take a look.
The first progression is just making sure that you’re able to comfortably push down
into the P-bars for the L-sit.
With your hands in the middle of the bars, you’re going to bring your feet forward
and you’re going to push down into the bars, bringing your chest up.
This is it.
This is the first thing that you need to master in order to start working on the L-sit.
Something to think about is to make sure that you have your rear end under your shoulders.
You don’t want it too far back nor do you want it too far forward.
From here, you can start working on bringing one leg up at a time.
Now remember, push down into the P-bars.
You don’t want to shrug.
This is not the position that we want.
Constantly push down into the P-bars and keep your arms straight.
Once you have this position, it’s time to bring both legs up.
If you have trouble with that, don’t worry.
You can use your toes in the beginning, as your toes on the ground and work on bringing
one leg up at a time, gradually working on bringing both legs up for the tuck position.
Now, something that you can use that will help you to start working on the L-sit, the
actual L-sit, is to extend one leg at a time.
But we’re not going to fully extend that leg.
All you’re going to do is open your knee.
What I mean by that, I’m going to show you with my feet on the ground.
From here, if I have one leg up, I’m going to work on extending the knee rather than
just shoving the leg out.
This is a very gradual process and when done properly, this will really help strengthen
your core and your arms and get you stronger so that you can start going directly into
that L-sit.
Let me show you.
So from a tuck, all I’m going to do is work on pushing out slightly.
I’m not going all the way out just yet.
I’m keeping that knee in and then I will switch legs and work this for a time up to
five seconds each side.
Once you get that, and you can do it for multiple sets, you can start holding it for a little
longer but also start working on fully extending that leg.
So from here, extend the leg and then switch and then you can work on the full L-sit.
Those are just some tips that you can use to help you get your L-sit.
So use the progressions I just showed you and
you will be well on your way to getting the L-sit.
If you enjoyed this video, be sure to check out our home page at www.GoldMedalBodies.com
and sign up for the Posse.
There you can get more videos and updates about what’s going on in GMB as well as
some other cool tutorials.
Thanks for watching.
[End of transcript]