Rowing Back and Rowing Front

This is the rowing series. Now there are many different ways that rowing is practiced. Um, I will teach the version that I learned in my Bassey training. So here it is. Christie is going to demonstrate for us today and we'll start with the rowing back one. So Chrissy will face the back of the reformer with her legs out in front of her and she wants to orient herself so that she has about a hands with the space behind her.

Doing so will enable her to be able to put her lumbar spine on the carriage and have it be supported using one red spring. So Chrissy's sitting up nice and straight. She's going to take her arms out in front of her with the palms facing each other as she inhales. She maintains that upright position and bends her elbows, bringing her a hands towards her sternum, a little closer together, Christie. And as she exhale, she or rolls back into the carriage, bringing the arm position with her. On the inhale breath, we take the arms internally rotated and out to the side. On the exhale.

Breath the arms reach behind the body, comes forward over the legs and Christie's reaching her head forward rather than dropping it down into her leg. She's doing a beautiful job. She then lifts her arms up, circles around in her shoulder, joins to bring her arms all the way out in front of her again before she rolls back up to sitting and inhale to Ben. Brewing your little bit apart a little. We want a little space between the chest and the and the hands and then maintain that space as you exhale and roll back. Inhale, take the arms out to the side, stabilizing the scapula to bring the arms all the way back to the back of the body near the sacred. Then lifting the arms, taking the arms all the way around to the front of the body and once she arrives there, she rolls back up to sitting up straight and Benz her Elvis again. We'll do one more time. Exhale, keeping that orientation of arms to body in. He'll take the arms.

Exhale, bring yourself forward. Take the arms behind you. Reach up, go around to the front of you and roll all the way back up. Rowing back what? So now we're going to do the rowing back to the arms. Come up parallel to the floor. We check to make sure Christie's sitting absolutely upright, which she is. And we inhale to bend the elbows into a 90 degree angle.

Maintaining the shape of the elbow roll back and bring your arms down to your torso. Good. See the angle of the arms has stayed the same. There's a little hint of affliction on the inhale and then as you exhale, lean back. But take your arms forward. So you finished with a straight back in your arms in front of you, and then you come all the way back up to sitting. Just dropping your arms back into the start position in health at bend. Exhale, take that 90 degree angle down next to the ribcage.

Tiny little flection on the inhale. And then exhale, reach forward. Take the body in the arms in the opposite directions. And then the final inhale is to sit up to bring the arms down. Let's do one more. Inhale to bent. Don't lean back when you bend your arms. Exhale, roll back in. How Jaz. Find your abdominals and then reach forward. Lean a little bit back. That's it, Christie, and then sit all the way up to finish rowing back.

Let's turn around. We'll do the rowing front. Yeah, so in the rowing front we're just hooking the thumbs in the straps, not the whole hand. I'm going to start with the arms just outside of the sternum. Just the lights are a little bit off center, so we go. Exhale, the arms go for the straps will end up just underneath your arms. Inhale, touchdown. Start right away to internally rotate the arms, lifting them up. This is a really nice opportunity to lift up into the straps with the spy.

Rotate out to the side with the arms and bring the arms all the way down the hands. Turn the elbows, bend XL. Continue to sit up straight as you reach forward. Inhale, go down and up. Exhale X, certainly rotate the shoulders to bring the arms around Xcel to go forward. Inhale, touch, add, reach. Internally rotate. I think of catching the straps with my hands and pushing forward on them as I bring my arms around. Let's do one more exhale. Are you leaning back?

I don't think. I don't think you are. And then we hear each other and we take it around. Yeah. Good. So that's the rowing front one in the rowing front to this one in my opinion is the most complex one. So are you ready Christie? Here we go. So we start in that same position with the thumbs.

You're sitting up tall, you're going to breathe in. Now this time as you exhale you, I'm going to go a little slower on this one cause there's more steps. You're going to flex your spine forward and as you do that, drop your arms and next year ribs, three thing has happened in this next step one, the bat goes straight on the diagonal to the arms internally, rotate and straighten. Nope, just two things. Here we go. So reach out, extend through the spine, the arms come right to the ears, the shoulders are relaxed and then we sit all the way up. That was amazing Christie. And open Ben arms. Exhale, flexing the spine. Take the arms down. Inhale, lengthen up on that diagonal, taking the arms up towards the ear. Set all the way up and exhale to take the arms around.

Very nicely executed my friend. Exhale, roll down. Inhale, hit that flat back. You see how Christie's initiating from her back, not with her arms. That's exactly what we want. And reach your around. That's great. Chrissy, really nicely done. So those are the four exercises of the rowing series. Let us know if you have any questions.