How to: Inversion Sling

An inversion sling is a fitness tool used to promote circulation, flexibility and muscle strengthening. In order to gain the maximum benefit from your inversion sling you need to know how to use it properly. Once the system is rigged safely, begin the workout process slowly. Work up to longer and more intense workouts as you learn the swing and how it affects your body. There are many makers of inversion slings, each with its own method of set-up, but they all follow the same basic principle.

Instructions

    • 1

      Set-up the holding bar. This is the bar placed in a door jamb. Push it up high on the door jamb and then grip it, pulling with your full body weight and lifting your feet off the ground to test the integrity of the rigging.

    • 2

      Thread the two swing straps to the crossbars on the rigging in the door jamb. Grip the sides of the straps facing the straps themselves.

    • 3

      Lift yourself up onto the swing's padded section. Keep the hands on the straps and push them up as high as you can reach and still use arm muscles. Let go of the straps and slide your legs up and around the curved pads, beginning the upside down-inverted position.

    • 4

      Arch your back and slide it over the pads as your legs go up the straps. Keep the legs wrapped around the straps as you lower the lumbar over the pads. Maintain an arch on the lumbar.

    • 5

      Lower and settle onto the pads. Begin the workout in the inverted position as you see fit.