Floor L Sit Back and Forth exercise – Mover.tips

Sitting in an L Sit position and balancing your body activates core and hamstrings.

Video demonstration

(excerpt from ‘How To L Sit (3 STEPS) For Beginners – Core Strength & Progressions’out-site-3845403 by TappBrothers)

How to and step by step instructions:

  1. Sit on the floor, legs straight and feet together.
  2. Straighten your back.
  3. Perform small balance moves with your upper body, moving forward and backward.

Benefits:

  • Improve posture.
  • Prepares hamstrings and back for the L Sit.

Counting & gamification:

  • Count the seconds you can keep doing these moves.
  • Set an accumulated goal for a period, session, weekend or week.
  • Accumulate such timer count with the one from a pure L Sit position in the floor.

Muscles worked and body parts involved:

Primary muscles: Lowerback, Hamstring

Secondary muscles: Quads

Muscle: Lowerback

Corner Seated L Sit Single Leg Raise Corner Seated L Sit Position See 6 Lower back exercises

Muscle: Hamstring

Corner Seated L Sit Legs Raise See 5 Hamstring exercises

Collection: L Sit Friendly

Low L Sit on Parallel Bar Floor L Sit Tuck to One Leg Floor L Sit Heel Supported Single Leg Raise L Sit Leg Raise on Parallel Bar See the 33 exercises collection L Sit Friendly

Flexibility: Shoulder

hindu-push-up-8265880 See 5 exercises on Shoulder flexibility

Flexibility: Harmstring

Floor L Sit One Leg Support Seated L Sit Pike Leg Raise See 9 exercises on Harmstring flexibility

Category: Bodyweight

wall-triceps-push-up-2390145 finger-l-sit-heel-support-7278150 Finger L Sit Heel Support See 132 exercises for category Bodyweight