Technique Tuesday: Russian Twists

Controversial technique tuesday coming in hot...

I have been the student and instructor in many different modalities. This is one of the exercises that most frustrates me.

❌Mechanically you are just using momentum to swing your arms, at the expense of your shoulder (top video). Worst case scenario you are taxing your Lumbar and SI region.

✅Keeping your hands or equipment at the heart and twisting as one unit is so much more effective and purposeful (bottom video). This reduces arms traveling without the trunk, arching of the back and an opposite hip/foot lifting from the floor. Even my back muscles look more engaged in the bottom video, bonus!