Mason Twist Exercise

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Amy McCauley and I'm going to demonstrate a Mason Twist. Find the sit bones at the very end of your spine. You are going to grab on to your hamstrings to find yourself getting into that seated position. Hollow out your stomach. Make a nice strong C curve so that the stomach drops instead of flattening out the spine and putting pressure on you lower back. Our ultimate goal is to drop down that is how we start this Mason Twist. Clasp one hand in the other. You are going to rotate from one side to the other side. Try to keep your hips as stable as possible as you are moving and we are working into your obliques and your waist line going from one side to the other. Now if you are able to start to drop into that fuller rotation so you are trying to get that knuckle down to the floor as you rotate getting a deeper work into your external oblique, driving it even further into your internal so you want to make it more challenging, grab a free weight, a light weight. Stack one hand on top of the other and drop that elbow down. As you twist try to draw the elbow down, shoulder back, exhaling as you twist and inhale on the center. Try to do as many as you can comfortably, around 20 to 25 reps, take a break and then repeat two to three sets. This is how we do our Mason Twist, working the obliques."