11 Jan Aerial Fitness: 5 Minutes Ab Workout with Aerial Hammock
If you love getting fit in the air, I am excited to share with you the first of the aerial fitness series on the aerialpractice channel – 5 Minutes Ab Workout with Aerial Hammock. While the exercises look simple, completing these 5 minutes in the air was challenging! In this post, I will share with you behind the scene detail about aerial fitness!
Why Aerial fitness?
Back in college, I did a lot of core exercises with the goal of achieving a flat stomach. Don’t get me wrong, focused exercises are important. But neglecting to work on other areas did not help me to achieve my fitness goal.
With aerial fitness (and any other exercise), it is impossible to gain one area without training another. Even though this exercise is focusing on building strong abs, you are also training your grip and upper body strength. Exercises include:
- Sitting leg lift
- Knees to chest
- Straddle crunch
- Sitting knee lift
- Plank to half hand stand
What does it say about a person if she has gone by 20+ years without having any arms and upper-body strength? Well, I was pretty lazy.
The simple idea of going to the gym already bores me. I enjoy swimming a lot but I never needed more strength to out-swim anyone. When I found aerial dance, I finally confronted my lazy demon and decided it is time to try what I can to get stronger.
Being able to achieve goals in the air has helped me to get more flexible, confident, and stronger!
Aerial Fitness – NOW vs GOAL
If you find 5 Minutes Ab Workout with Aerial Hammock useful, let me share with you how I am improving forward.
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- Engage the core more to sit straight.
- Goal: Lifting both legs without moving the upper body
- Keep the chest open
- Bring the knees closer to the chest
- When coming back down, push the lower body back, similar to a standing posture
- Need to actual crunch hard enough to touch the toes
- Engage more to keep the body in line. Instead of swinging back and forth
- Sit more straight for a better result
- Bring the hip forward more
- Do something with those crazy chin lines – just joking!
I hope this is useful! Enjoy the 5 minutes ab workout. Let me know if the comments below how it works for you!
Happy New Year! Let’s get strong, fit, and sexy together!
Lots of love,
Eunice