The Spider

The Spider comes from a session I had with a rock climber who maintained his breath did not influence his strength. He was, of course, built like the material he loved to climb--built like a rock.

That night I kept seeing him in my mind's eye, like a spider, clinging to the rock. and this was the advent of tandem reformer exercises--like the spider. the image below only shows one reformer because that's all I have in my studio, but usually it is done with another reformer in parallel, feet positioned like hands. Inhale out, exhale home.

Just leg pull front, and leg pull on the mat, and control push up front and control push up on the reformer, spider front and spider extend the equipment's ability to find fluorescence.

Spider front

Spider

Comments

[jiq]

Spider 'front' means front facing gravity. Why can't the PMA get that distinction right? As in leg pull, leg pull front; hanging up, hanging down. Testing people without the Idea leaves the gist out.