Fundamental FitShot Exercise: Sit-Up Technique

All right, I've got Kerry Tanner out here on the range with me to look at the fundamental FitShot exercise of the sit-up. And of course, we all understand what the sit-up is. We're gonna make sure that our back, our shoulder blades actually touch the ground. And we're gonna sit-up as far forward as we can as close to vertical or preferably at vertical or even beyond if we have that range of motion and we have that strength in our core. So the sit-up is a great fundamental range of motion exercise and a core exercise.

Anyway, now, of course, we're gonna add our practical shooting to it and make it a good fundamental FitShot exercise. Kerry, if you will go to the ready position and take a knee and go ahead and go to a seated position. So remember, whenever we're working on our fundamental FitShot stuff, we wanna always holster and unholster in the standing position so that we don't have legs floating around. We don't have to worry about different angles. So as a fundamental exercise, we're gonna make sure we get the gun to the ready position before we take our seated position.

At this point, this gun is in the perfect high compressed ready position. The trick here is that we need to make sure we're not gonna be pointing the gun over the berm. We need to make sure that the gun's not gonna go over the burn, both in our exercise up here, and particularly when we're shooting. Traditionally, what we do is we use the lower boxes on these standard balance of speed and precision targets because they'll give us an angle where we know that when the gun is extended, even if we were to do that from a lowered position, but certainly from this seated position where we're definitely below the berm. Anytime you work from the ground, whether it's in FitShot or any other shooting endeavor, you need to double check and make sure you're below the berm.

Can you just confirm that you're below the berm with an extended shooting position? Yes, I am. Go to extend. And just double check. Perfect, and come on back.

All right, so that all looked good. Plenty of berm above the target, good. Now, in this position Kerry's gonna keep his forearms up against his body and he's gonna go all the way back, keeping the muzzle compressed. He's not pointed at his legs. It's not pointed up at the sky.

He's gonna keep his arms and this is what makes this difficult, and it's a little harder than a standard sit-up, we can't throw our arms forward. He's gonna have to keep his arms in, keep the gun in the high compressed ready position and sit up. All right, a little bit of a struggle there. At this point, he could drive out and shoot, come back in. All right, let's go ahead and try that again.

This time I'm gonna put my eye protection on. This time I'm gonna let you go ahead and shoot when you come up but keep the hands against the body. Keep the muzzle below the berm. Back to your back. Excellent, and sit up and drive out and come back in and touch your chest before going back down.

Good, and come up, try to keep your hands close to your chest until you get to the top. Drive out, take the shot, come back in and go back down. And come back up. Back down. Good and come up and drive out.

Excellent, that was a great rep. Excellent, so some of the flaws that you see, some of the things you're gonna be looking for is if the gun is out here and Kerry were to start going back down, that's a bad rep. So we want to make sure he's not doing that. He wants to bring the gun all the way back into the ready position. Now come down with the muzzle down and now try to keep the hands as close to the body as possible as he comes up.

Good, and then drives out to take the shot. Good, comes back in. And let's say that we were doing that for five reps. We're good. Finger off the trigger and now recover, keeping the gun pointed down range or at the ground all the way back up to a standing position and back into your holster.

Excellent. All right, so we all understand the sit-ups. Sit-ups a great exercise for any fundamental fitness regimen. And when you work it in the FitShot, it's something that can be done very safely. Just remember the angle of the muzzle and remember to keep the gun against your body whenever you're moving.

Once you're up in that stable position, you drive out and shoot. Come back into the body, before you go back down. The fundamental exercise of FitShot, the sit-up.