Fanatic Yogi or Fitness freak?
Do you classify yourself as a fitness freak or a newbie who wants to start exploring some new aerial yoga swing poses? Whatever your rhythm is, you will benefit from adding some aerial yoga swing arm workouts to your routine. This hybrid exercise, also called anti-gravity yoga, is the new way to practice yoga. It will not only just enhance your wellbeing, but you’ll also get to experience something completely new.
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- Yoga Trapeze Exercises For Upper and Lower Body
Swing arm workouts are a great way to build body strength and improve arm muscles. These workouts focus on your upper body with the help of a trapeze. They use movements which open up your arm muscles and make them stronger. Doing these arm workouts will:
- Strengthen your arms and wrists
- Strengthen the fibers and muscles in postural alignment
- Enhance your blood fluidity and mobility
- Loosen-up your spine
- Upper body growth
5 Yoga Trapeze Arm Workouts
- Flying Spider
Professionals would know this, and for beginners, it might be very difficult, but flying spiders is a healthy exercise and is also an enjoyable one.
You must first sit on your trapeze to do this. The next move is to slowly lower yourself back and as your legs rise, you have to tie the soles to each other in a diamond position.
Be patient and balance yourself before you continue touching the sole. Now support your upper body entirely with your hands and straighten your arms with one fast step.
You’re flying. you’re the flying spider!! Ease your legs full backwards and do pushups in the air, as much as you can. When you return, slowly lower your upper body and keep your legs down in the diamond position. Pull up your upper body to see your knees and then slowly take down your legs in “V” form.
- Half Boat Pose
Turn both your feet back down to the floor and stand before the hammock in the middle of your mat, make sure it’s so tight that your glutes meet. Take the hammock on both sides and pull your arms as if the trapeze sides were your backpack straps. Hold the hammock and then slip the hands down and draw the hands to the hip. Lean against the hips with your inner wrists. Stand on your toes after that. Take your feet as wide as the mat. Place your sacrum in the hammock on the bottom of the form U.
Lean against the hammock and mobilize the abdominal muscles to raise your legs while simultaneously using the firm arms, so that the hammock does not fall back and swing.
Bend the knees so your weight can transmit to the hammock from the floor. Then drive your hands even higher up your arms, straighten your knees and help balance your legs. Correct the material if the sacrum is slipped off. Maintain for 5 breaths deep.
- Plank
Plank is a commonly known and useful workout. People do it all the time to improve strength and reduce their overall weight. In order to do the plank, you will have to put your forearms and feet on the ground in a normal plank position. This position leads to balance, resilience, patience, and core toning.
You want to keep the same shape as you would on the ground and lift your legs by swinging with the aid of the yoga hammock. You get more centered in your glutes in this position because the hammock is higher than your hands. This is your place, hold the position, squeezing in the abs, from 20 to 40 seconds each set. As you go, you’re going to want to increase your pose time.
- Downward Dog
The downward dog will reveal the full benefit of yoga and fitness when jumping into the most common pose of yoga. For the downhill dog shape, you want to detach your legs easily and slowly. Next, without bending or moving the legs, you slowly bend your stomach ahead. You hit the ground with your hands in traditional form and steady your body for several seconds to one minute. You can hit the swing with the stomach with aerial yoga, while you bend and attach to the ground. Slowly you can start elevating your legs and place your hands and stomach on the swing with all your support.
- Bound One-Legged King Pigeon Pose
From the One-Legged King Pigeon Pose, use either hand to grasp your left foot or ankle. Hold your ankle with both hands if you are flexible. When you are in a binding position, continue to make the left thigh heavy and fall into the ground and open further into the backbend. Make sure to take 5 slow, deep breaths, and then return to the Reclining Angle Pose before releasing your left leg. Try the other side of the pose. Keep on the sides and lie down, to get out of the hammock. Remove the hooked leg and bring both feet on the ground. Rest in Bal asana a.k.a a Child’s Pose for several breaths.
These five yoga exercises may seem hard to do on a trapeze. Contrary to what people believe, these poses actually become way easier when you are doing them with the help of a trapeze. They can be easily accomplished using a 100% handmade aerial yoga swing or hammock with outstanding work and patience. You will begin to see improvements in your body after using them in your weekly workout. In particular, your mood, balance, and well-being are going to improve.
Once you start, your whole body becomes happy and thankful, plus it is a fun way to introduce new workout styles into your routine.
