Scissors
Scissors will improve your coordination. This exercise will also strengthen your hips as well as improve their flexibility. Scissors also improves your shoulder stability.
Procedure:
Start in the forward prone position with the exercise ball higher up on the thighs. Make sure your hands are on the floor. Your arms should be wider than your shoulders and slightly bent. Bend your left knee, making a 90-degree angle, and bring your left foot up to the ceiling as far as you can. Point your left toe and allow the foot to fall over your right leg, keeping your knee up in the air as high as possible. Your body will twist to the left. Your right elbow bends slightly and your face is looking to the left. Your left toe should stretch toward the right elbow, getting as close to your elbow as possible. Lift your left thigh back and put it on the ball. Repeat using your right leg. Keep repeating back and forth with each leg.
Variation: For a challenge, add a 3 – 6 lb ankle weight to each ankle.
Tips:
Your hands are key to your stability. Keep them firmly planted into the ground.
Required Equipment:
Exercise Ball
Optional Equipment:
Ankle Weights
Hand Bells
Focus:
Dynamic Flexibility
Exceptional Core Strength
Grace
Comments
Re: Scissors
Yes that is correct. Think about trying to get the foot in the air to the opposite arm.
Re: Scissors
Yes that is correct. Think about trying to get the foot in the air to the opposite arm.
Re: Scissors
Once your leg is in the air (ie up to the ceiling as far as you can) do you then pivot on the opposite hip to allow the foot to fall over the opposite leg?