Arch Body Rock
The Arch Body Rock is a great exercise to activate traps, straighten your handstand line, and fix desk-sitting posture.
- Type Of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Glutes, Lower Back, Middle Back, Shoulders, Trapezius
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Body Only
Arch Body Rock
![Arch Body Rock 1 Arch Body Rock Beginning](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com//gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Arch-Body-Rock-1.jpg)
![Arch Body Rock 2 Arch Body Rock End](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com//gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Arch-Body-Rock-2.jpg)
![Arch Body Rock 3 Arch Body Rock](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com/gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ArchBodyRock.jpg)
- Start lying on your stomach with your arms overhead and feet together.
- Extend your body as much as possible by locking your elbows, shrugging your shoulders to your ears, straightening your knees, and pointing your toes.
- Engage your glutes and lift your hands off the ground.
- Now lift your upper and lower body up as high as possible without bending your elbows or knees.
- Look up slightly, keep shrugging your shoulders, and then begin to rock forward and backward.
- Use your back, glute, and hamstring muscles to rock smoothly toward your chest and then back to your thighs.
- Keep a fixed and extended arch body position as you rock back and forth for reps.
![Arch Body Rock 4 Arch Body Hold](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com//gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SL_PE14_-_3.jpg)
- Exercise: Arch Body Hold
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Glutes, Lower Back, Middle Back, Shoulders, Trapezius
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Body Only
![Arch Body Rock 5 Side Lever Block](https://www.gymnasticbodies.com//gymfit/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SL_SE1_-_2.jpg)
- Exercise: Side Lever Block
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals, Shoulders, Trapezius, Middle Back, Lats
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Stall Bars