Boomerang

Hi everybody. My name is [inaudible] Benjamin. I'm here with many. We're going to break down the boomerang exercise, which often is thought of as a very complicated movement with many different steps. Traditionally it was actually quite a simple back and forward movement that comes right out of rolling exercises such as rolling like a ball, um, open lake rocker. It combines your rollover with your teaser. Um, it's actually quite a lot of fun and it feeds into the exercise that are traditionally to follow it, which are ceiling crab. Um, so we're working with long leavers of the body here. The most complex part possibly is the way that we get into the exercise and an initiated because we have to lift the legs out from the center, um, from the strength of our center. So, um, and he slide forward just a little bit on the match here. We begin with the legs crossed in the exercise, so like it's the right foot on top of the left. The hands are parked down next to the hips.

The first thing we try to accomplish is to get the legs up against the nose. Now because from a seated position it's almost impossible to do that. We're going to take the body back ever so slightly to arrive in a very teaser like shape here. We're just going to do that a couple more times. Lowering the legs down, sitting back up, so very similar to rowing on the reformer. We try to push the hands into the ground, bend our spine over the legs and use the strength of our center to pick the legs up by your nice and then lowering the legs back down.

This is what initiates the movement. Once you have the shape like a boomerang, we try to maintain it and let it fly so it never really changes the distance between nose and knees. Once you're in the exercise, we'll try that into a rollover so we pick the legs up the way we just did the leg squeeze together. The legs lead the way overhead. This is where we open, close the legs and that is the only complicated part of the exercise. Once you're in it, we lift the arms forward and up. Going into a teaser from here, trying to catch our balance. Just enough so we can let the legs fall.

The arms swing down back and up for a little double Paltz, opening the chest, and then the hands come right back down next to the hipster. Lift is fine. Up. We're ready to do the second side. Rolling back overhead. Switching the legs here, reaching through the arms. The body flows through a teaser shape into a rowing like shape. And then hands park down again. We go a little quicker now.

Rolling back overhead. Switching the legs, lifting yourself back up, letting the movement continue into an overhead reach. One more time. Rolling back. Switch the legs. Pull yourself up with the energy of the arms. Take a stretch over the legs and then recover. Sit yourself up. That is your boomerang. Um, there's a whole workout sequence around this exercise if you want to, and more steps leading up to being successful at doing your boomerang.

Have Fun with it.