The L-sit And Why You Should Do It Before Every Workout

You don’t need parallel bars, special workouts shoes, or two-hundred-dollar Lu-Lu socks.

There’s a way to see if your body is primed for fitness, and it doesn’t require a wearable.

You don’t have to be good at it, either; you just have to be consistent. Even when it sucks. Even when you don’t want to, you have to do it every day.

First, get on the floor. Then put your legs together and extend them straight out in front — you should look like an “L.”

Place your hands beside your hip pockets. Lift both legs as high off the ground as possible. Now start counting seconds in your head. If you can only lift one leg at a time, excellent, go for that. Scale as needed to find your baseline. Then see how long you can hold that shape. We’ll call it an ‘L-sit.’

That’s it!

You don’t need parallel bars, special workouts shoes, or two-hundred-dollar Lu-Lu socks. You need the ground and gravity. Wherever you are, I bet you have both. So go ahead, try it!

How long did you hold it?

Great! Remember that number like it’s your card in a magic trick. Now do it again tomorrow and keep tracking. You’ll struggle at first, and your times may even fluctuate wildly, but after about ten days, you’ll…