Strap Pulls

This exercise is directly inspired by the pilates exercise called the pulling straps on the Pilates reformer. It is an exercise for posture. It will help reverse some of the cell-phone posture that is so common. In anatomy, it is an exercise for the lower trapezius.

The story is that we wanted very much to have an exercise like the Pulling straps in Pilates, but we didn’t want the inconvenience of laying on our belly. Instead we wanted to do it standing. To accomplish this, we had to build this quite large apparatus, but it is so easy to use. There is no need to lie on your belly. We think it was worth the extra effort.