The AirTrack is very versatile, a perfect outdoor gym mat, that you can get very creative with the uses of it. Here are 10 easy ideas to use your AirTrack with;

Handstands

● Walk your legs up a wall until you are in a handstand position

● The wall helps hold your balance while you build strength in your arms and find the correct form

● Squeeze your muscles

● Engaging glute and abdominal muscles help keep you balanced

● Push through your arms

● Pretend to push the floor away to lengthen your body

● Keep your neck even

● Don’t tuck your chin in

● This will keep your body better inline

Cartwheel

● Start in a lunge and put your hands on the floor

● Practice kicking your leg up from this position

● When you are comfortable, kick your leg up and then push off your supporting leg

● Do this a few time

● When ready push off and try to get all the way around

● Technique tips

● Point your toes

● Keep your legs straight

Stretching or yoga

● Touch your toes

● Start with your feet together and knees straight. Extend your arms and try to touch your toes to stretch your hamstrings.

● Straddle

● Open your legs while on the floor, keep your knees straight, and gradually push your body down towards the ground.

● Lunges

● Start in a lunge position and put your hands on the floor on each side of your foot. For a deeper stretch you can pull your knee back and then push your hips down.

Back extension roll

● Put your hands to the sky

● Go into a ball position

● Put your hands by your head

● Sit down

● Push their legs off

● Make sure their neck is tucked

● Roll

● While rolling extend your arms straight and push up into a handstand

Back Handspring

● Warm-up

● Fall into your backbend

● Flip your legs over together

● Do this a few times until you feel confident to do so

● Back handspring

● Place your feet next to each other firmly

● Bend your knees

● Launch yourself backwards into a backbend position

● Flip your legs over

Back tuck 

To learn how to do a back tuck click here. 

Front tuck

 

To learn how to do a back tuck click here. 

Pirouette

● Go into a handstand

● Practice holding your handstand

● Walk your hands in a circle while holding your handstand

Aerial

● With a running head start do a cartwheel and take your hands off the floor

● Again run and do a cartwheel a slowly try to use your hands less and less until it is an ariel

Strength Training

● Hold a plank

● To start, put your arms directly under your shoulders, hold your body perfectly straight (like a wood plank), squeeze your glutes, and hold.  It can be helpful to be on something cushioned like an AirTrack or yoga mat, to minimize the impact on your elbow and ankle joints.

● Improves strength in;

● Arms, core, and quads

● Increases stability and balance

● Helps posture

● Improves flexibility in;

          ● Shoulders

          ● Feet

          ● Hamstrings

● Wall sits

● To do a proper wall sit start with your back flush to the wall, and position yourself like you are sitting in a chair. Your legs should be at a 90° angle. Hold this position without touching your legs for as long as you can.

● Tones and strengthen muscles

● Improves posture

● Increases balance

● Increases core muscles

These are only 10 things you can do on your AirTrack, there is so much else you can do just get creative and have fun!