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Spidey-Sense...
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These Spider-Man plank moves target the oblique muscles on the side of your abs very effectively.
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Start with a normal push-up position, body flat, abs tight, like a plank.
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Alternate moving each knee forward until it’s level with or in front of your elbow.
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This may make your legs swing from side to side a little - all part of the fun.
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✅Actually you can get into a pretty good rhythm with this one, the suspended position offering a challenge, and allowing you to really drive your knees forward.✅
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One way to build that beach body for the summer!
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#certified !
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Congratulations to @alexfrewmcmillan on his certification as a sports-nutrition coach!
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Alex is now a certified Level 1 coach in exercise nutrition with @precisionnutrition.
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Precision Nutrition works with Olympic triathletes, the NBA @spurs NFL @panthers and @nike as well as “regular folks” like you and me.
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✅Alex can now offer certified counseling and advice on the “art and science” of sports nutrition.✅
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❗️So if you want to add a nutrition strategy to your exercise regime, Alex and @midageman can help!❗️
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⚖️As they say, weight loss and fitness are 30% exercise, 70% nutrition.⚖️
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7️⃣0️⃣Get that extra 70%!!!7️⃣0️⃣
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Tough crowd ...
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Great work by Daniel O’Connor come crunch time on the TRX.
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It’s Ching Ming Festival here in Hong Kong. Many people go grave sweeping to pay respects to their ancestors.
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Kids don’t have quite the same concerns.
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They’d rather play on the climbing frame, and heckle those silly adults who make it such heavy going to move around when it’s so much fun.
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We can learn a lot from kids and their attitude to “exercise.”
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Think of the joy of exercise, like when you were a kid and just climbed and ran and threw yourself around for fun.
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It’s all child’s play when you look at it that way.
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♂️Exercise never came so easy ... who says it has to be so hard?!♀️
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♂️On your marks ...♀️
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Sprinter starts help build leg strength with the TRX.
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✅Start with your rear leg as far back as it’ll go.✅
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Then drive that back knee forward and up.
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❗️The key is to perform a little hop on your other (standing) leg.❗️
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⚠️This is a particularly problematic exercise for clients to learn.⚠️
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The timing can be hard to master.
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☝If so, try to map the motion without leaving the ground before you incorporate the hop.☝
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Have fun with your sprinter starts!
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Take a knee ...
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✅Kettlebell moves get more taxing if you double them up.✅
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♂️A shoulder press takes on an added degree of difficulty when performed in the dip of a lunge.♀️
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Build a bit of kettlebell flow into your workout to maximize efficiency and increase the strain.
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In a good way!
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Saints and Sinners ...
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This squat-to-halo combo is harder than it looks!
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Performing any exercise at the depth of a squat is tough.
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✅This halo in the squat position is a challenge for the core muscles of the torso.✅
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♀️It’s also tough on the glutes as you hold the pose while shifting your center of gravity.♂️
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Throw in a little arm action to get the halo going, and you’ve got a little of everything.
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Try 10 reps, alternating the direction of the halo, 5 clockwise, 5 counterclockwise.
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Sounds easy ... a lot harder to execute than it appears.
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⚠️Use a light kettlebell to get the hang of the movements before challenging yourself with anything heavy to lift.⚠️
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Back breaker ...
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⚠️Normally, we wouldn’t want to deliberately strain the back like this.⚠️
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✅But the bent-over row is a great way to target the latissimus dorsi, or back muscles.✅
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Try to get your back flat “like a table” and keep your legs only very slightly bent.
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⚖️Use a heavy weight - 2 x 24 kg kettlebells here.⚖️
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Row as high up and as far down in the motion as you can.
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☝We prefer this to a lat pull down, maybe combined with a 2-arm and/or 1-arm row in a back-day superset.☝
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↗️That way inclined....↗️
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The incline bench press puts the stress of the exercise on the top of the chest.
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❗️It’s more useful than the reverse incline that works the lower pectoral muscles, which aren’t used as much by the body.❗️
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The top of the chest is a driver for any action that involves raising or lifting.
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✅Remember the 4-2-1 count on this (and many other!) exercise.✅
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4️⃣That means the lowering should take a “4 count,” with a 2-count pause at the top of the lift.2️⃣
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☄️Drive up with power on a “1 count” for the lift itself.☄️
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But the isometric stationary hold and the lowering are equally important parts of the exercise.
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