Functional training gym-Punch Forward/Trunk Rotation
Using tubing at shoulder height, alternate arms punching forward with trunk rotation. Use rotational exercises to get abs to react! Alternate foot positions.
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Check it out!In this video I have changed the foot position to left foot forward. This creates a different global reaction from the bottom up. Try it and feel the difference.
Using tubing at shoulder height, alternate arms punching forward with trunk rotation. Use rotational exercises to get abs to react! Alternate foot positions.
Push up matrix using push up bars. Allows more depth in the push up and varying the hand position you create different reactions in the muscles. Try doing each one different.
This is a whole body exercise. Using the arm as a driver laterally reach from knee to overhead and externally rotate. This creates trunk rotation and in this demonstration a weight is used to create tension and load. Feet are in a sagittal plane stance which prepositions the pelvis in such a way that the load will be different on the facets of the left side of the spine vs the right. The chain reaction goes down to the hips, knees, ankles and of course the feet. The chain reaction also goes up through the thoracic spine, neck and head. Test the exercise with no weight to gage range of motion and balance.