How to Do
How to Do Skin the Cat
The skin the cat should begin with good posture to avoid injury. Brace the spine by drawing your lower abdomen inward. Your core muscles should be activated to support your posture as you perform the exercise.
If any pain is experienced, immediately stop the skin the cat.
Beginning
Beginning Exercising Skin the Cat
1. Maintain a tight body with muscles engaged at all times.
2. Allow the rings to turn freely throughout the movement to ensure that the joints follow a natural path.
Movement
Exercising Skin the Cat Movement
1. Begin in a dead hang position with your hands turned out, gripping the gym rings.
2. Straighten your arms and legs. Continue pointing the toes and raising the legs until the feet pass up through the arms and over the head into the pike inverted hang posture.
3. Continue in the extended skin the cat' position by passing the feet around and down toward the ground (but not touching). Arms should be completely extended.
4. To return to the initial hang position, lift your hips and bring your legs back and over.
Benefits
Exercising Skin the Cat Benefits
The exercising skin the cat is a basic gymnastics technique that can be used as a warm-up for the popular lever strength holds (see front lever and back lever). It's also a great warm-up exercise or can be utilized as part of a larger regimen for conditioning repetitions.
Exercise Aliases
Back Lever.
