Floor L Sit Tuck exercise – Mover.tips

Exercise is a preparation for the Floor L Sit. It requires strong shoulders and abs, although other muscles are also involved.

Video demonstration

(excerpt from ‘Floor L Sit Progression Tutorial by Antranik’out-site-2769951 by Antranik DotOrg)

How to and step by step instructions:

  1. Sit on the floor, legs straight and feet together.
  2. Put your hands on the floor, near the hips.
  3. Press your shoulders down with your arms straight so that the hips stays of the ground.
  4. While pressing shoulders down, your head should be as far as possible from the shoulders.
  5. Raise your knees to the chest so that your feet stay off the ground.

Hints & tips:

  • Key points are shoulders and abs, ensure they are prepared.
  • Other muscles are also involved, this is a complete exercise.
  • When starting, to be able to hold the position for a few seconds is already a great exercise.
  • Exercise is easier in a hard ground such as rock or cement, opposite to a soft ground such as a grass field.

Benefits:

  • Overall strength, focus on shoulders and abs.

Counting & gamification:

  • Count the seconds you can hold, accumulating in a period (session, day, week).
  • Set an accumulated goal for a workout session, say 60 seconds, and do the necessary repetitions to reach that goal.

Muscles worked and body parts involved:

Muscles: Core & Upper body

Primary muscles: Shoulder, Triceps, Abs, Lats

Secondary muscles: Obliques, Lowerback, Hip Flexor, 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: Core and Upper body

Assisted Unstable One Arm Push Up See 22 Core and Upper Body exercises

Collection: L Sit Friendly

Corner Seated L Sit Single Leg Raise L Sit Tuck on Double Chair See the 33 exercises collection L Sit Friendly

Category: Bodyweight

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Same exercise, different set:

L Sit Tuck on Double Chair L Sit Tuck on Parallel Bar