Floor L Sit Position exercise – Mover.tips

Sitting in a perfect L Sit position activates core and hamstrings. This position can be challenging to hold for a single minute, if you do it in the perfect form.

Video demonstration

(excerpt from ‘Best Exercises To Increase L Sit HOLD’out-site-6019519 by FitnessFAQs)

How to and step by step instructions:

  1. Sit on the floor, legs straight and feet together.
  2. Straighten your back as much as possible.
  3. Extend your arms towards your feet.
  4. Ensure your back has an angle of 90 degrees or less (towards the front) and your back straight.

Benefits:

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

Counting & gamification:

  • Count the seconds you can hold this position without losing the form.
  • Set an accumulated goal for a period, session, weekend or week.

Muscles worked and body parts involved:

Primary muscles: Lowerback, Hamstring

Secondary muscles: Quads

Floor L Sit Progression

2. Floor L Sit Heel Support 3. Floor L Sit One Leg Support 5. Floor L Sit Tuck to One Leg See additional information regarding this progression

Muscle: Lowerback

Floor L Sit Back and Forth Corner Seated L Sit Position Corner Seated L Sit Single Leg Raise See 6 Lower back exercises

Muscle: Hamstring

Corner Seated L Sit Legs Raise See 5 Hamstring exercises

Collection: L Sit Friendly

l-sit-supported-single-leg-raise-8514344 L Sit Supported Single Leg Raise Seated L Sit Pike Leg Raise L Sit Leg Raise on Parallel Bar Supported L Sit Scapula Shrugs See the 33 exercises collection L Sit Friendly

Flexibility: Shoulder

hindu-push-up-9972746 See 5 exercises on Shoulder flexibility

Flexibility: Harmstring

See 9 exercises on Harmstring flexibility

Category: Bodyweight

Assisted Unstable One Arm Push Up See 132 exercises for category Bodyweight