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Hey, I’m Ryan from Gold Medal Bodies. Today I’m going to share a few tips with you that’s

going to help you with your L-sit. Let’s get started.

The L-sit is a great move that’s going to help strengthen your arms, your core, and

also your legs if done properly. Today I’m going to take you through a couple of progressions

that you can use, if you’re having trouble with the L-sit.

As long as you work with these progressions, go slow with them and don’t try and rush

into the more advanced movements. You will get the L-sit.

Even if you do have the L-sit already, you can use some of these progressions, work on

those and it will help you make your L-sit even better.

So let’s take a look. The first progression is just making sure that you’re able to

comfortably push down into the P-bars for the L-sit. With your hands in the middle of

the bars, you’re going to bring your feet forward and you’re going to push down into

the bars, bringing your chest up. This is it. This is the first thing that you need

to master in order to start working on the L-sit. Something to think about is to make

sure that you have your rear end under your shoulders. You don’t want it too far back

nor do you want it too far forward.

From here, you can start working on bringing one leg up at a time. Now remember, push down

into the P-bars. You don’t want to shrug. This is not the position that we want. Constantly

push down into the P-bars and keep your arms straight.

Once you have this position, it’s time to bring both legs up. If you have trouble with

that, don’t worry. You can use your toes in the beginning, as your toes on the ground

and work on bringing one leg up at a time, gradually working on bringing both legs up

for the tuck position.

Now, something that you can use that will help you to start working on the L-sit, the

actual L-sit, is to extend one leg at a time. But we’re not going to fully extend that

leg. All you’re going to do is open your knee. What I mean by that, I’m going to

show you with my feet on the ground.

From here, if I have one leg up, I’m going to work on extending the knee rather than

just shoving the leg out. This is a very gradual process and when done properly, this will

really help strengthen your core and your arms and get you stronger so that you can

start going directly into that L-sit. Let me show you.

So from a tuck, all I’m going to do is work on pushing out slightly. I’m not going all

the way out just yet. I’m keeping that knee in and then I will switch legs and work this

for a time up to five seconds each side.

Once you get that, and you can do it for multiple sets, you can start holding it for a little

longer but also start working on fully extending that leg.

So from here, extend the leg and then switch and then you can work on the full L-sit. Those

are just some tips that you can use to help you get your L-sit.

So use the progressions I just showed you and you will be well on your way to getting the

L-sit. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to check out our home page at www.GoldMedalBodies.com

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