Side Arch Body Rock
The Side Arch Body Rock is a challenging oblique exercise that trains an athlete's core strength and stamina. It's a side lever progression.
- Type Of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Equipment: Body Only
Side Arch Body Rock
- Begin lying on your right side, body extended, with your right arm overhead.
- Place your left hand on the floor just in front of you for balance.
- Be sure your body is straight (no piking a your hips).
- Now lift your torso and legs straight up at the exact same time, arching through the left side of your body.
- Aim to lift your upper and lower body the same amount.
- From your best side arch, begin to use your left oblique to smoothly rock forward, toward your right shoulder and backward, toward your right hip.
- Keep a straight body and avoid using your left hand to push; generate the momentum fro your core.
- Repeat for reps.
- Exercise: Side Arch Body Hold
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Abdominals
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Arch Body Hold
- Type of Exercise: Strength
- Muscles: Glutes, Lower Back, Middle Back, Shoulders, Trapezius
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Equipment: Body Only
