Hindu Bridge.

2Green · Post by **2Green** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 8:40 pm

What's your record for holding the Hindu Bridge?
Mine's a little over a minute these days.
What is THE record, anybody know?

NM

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 10:39 pm

Please enlighten us as to the specifics of this. I think I know what you mean but...

- Bill

2Green · Post by **2Green** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 6:12 pm

Lie on the floor face down, raise up on elbows & toes, keeping back parallel to floor. It's a yoga exercise, my first Sensei made us do it during the "phys-ed" part of our classes.
Brutal!

NM

Stryke · Post by **Stryke** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 4:48 am

I made 2 minutes and collapsed , and your right brutal .... I so thought it would be easy

fun stuff

chester_b · Post by **chester_b** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 3:38 pm

Yes, I tried this this morning and the first few seconds seemed a breeze but then it got harder really fast. I probably didn't even make a minute, but after trying it a few times just for sh*ts and giggles, I tried going up on 1 elbow or 1 foot for just a few seconds which made it much more difficult. Ah, the fun I will have with this exercise.

Bill Glasheen · Post by **Bill Glasheen** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 8:40 pm

OK... Thought so. I used to do this way back in the seventies.

Like other exercises such as standing in a deep horse stance, you will learn ways to do it that suddenly make it easy to stay there for long periods of time. It was brutal for me at first. Now it's no big deal - so much so that now I don't even bother. Too much of a waste of time staying up there that long.

But it's a great barometer of your progress in maintaining good posture and good trunk strength. If you can do this ad infinitum, you have great posture and postural control.

- Bill

Halford · Post by **Halford** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 1:26 am

This 'killer' exercise is quite good in many ways,but can be rough on the back as well as on the abs. When we did this years ago in karate class, it was usually after doing a lot of situps, leg raises, etc. for the abs. To make it tougher, we often 'sat' on each other's backs or placed a weight(barbell plate) between the shoulders. Sometimes we would lace the hands behind the neck. The Hindu bridge I was thinking of is the reverse:lying on the back and arching the back so that one is supported on the palms and the soles.

Hindu Bridge.

Hindu Bridge.

I just knew it as "toes and elbows" years ago!