What is the Lifetime Fitness Ladder?
The lifetime fitness ladder is a simple exercise regimen intended to provide a diversity of simple exercises that you can do at home with no equipment. Each day, you work through a “rung” of this ladder, which consists of a specific number of five exercises: • Bends (in which you bend over, touch the ground between your toes, bounce up a few inches, touch the ground again, then go all the way back up and bend backwards a bit) • Sit-ups • Push-ups • Prone lifts (in which you lay on your back on the floor, lift your legs a bit off the floor, then lift your head and shoulders a bit, then lower your head and shoulders to the floor, and then your legs) • Run and jumps (in which you run in place and stop at regular intervals to do a set of ten jumping jacks) Because many people that will try this out are in poor shape, the first 15 rungs actually use simpler versions of each of these exercises — the bend doesn’t involve a bounce at the floor, the sit-ups only go up high enough so that you ca
