Hey, guys!
Jeff Cavaliere from athleanx.com.
Standing next to me once again is Adam Jarvis.
You probably have seen Adam already on the athleanx.com website, his unbelievable transformation
in just 90 days from partying rockstar to pretty much a ripped specimen here, following
the 90 day program.
Now the first thing you notice is that obviously he's still keeping up the program and staying
in shape, which is great cause I want you guys not to just follow this for 90 days,
but to make it a lifestyle change.
Secondly, Adam has some pretty neat things.
He had a pretty messed up shoulder, he had a 2 to 3 inch shoulder surgery.
Adam, tell me a little bit about why this program seemed to work for you and what made
you kinda get into it.
>> Adam: Looking at not being able to workout properly because of my shoulder surgery...
>> Jeff: What did you have done?
>> Adam: I had my supraspinatous torn off my shoulder, and my rotator cuff totally rebuilt.
Looking at your profile, as you are a physical therapist, which I had to go see for a while
after my surgeries, I knew that I would get a workout that would build up my shoulder
and be able to build more muscle mass as I progress.
With other programs I was unable to build any muscle mass, plus the programs, due to
my poor shoulders, I was unable to do them.
>> Jeff: You were following P90X, weren't you?
>> Adam: Yes.
>> Jeff: Did you have some problems with some of the exercises there?
>> Adam: I could not do a lot of the exercises because of my shoulder.
>> Jeff: But this workout, the athLEAN-X workout, you're able to do everything?
>> Adam: Yes.
>> Jeff: I mean, you have to be a little bit surprised yourself about the amount of the
muscle mass that you've put on, because again, all it takes is one look at his picture before
to realize that he wasn't in great shape, but now he looks fantastic.
But what we're gonna do is now we're gonna add a little component to your upper body
training that you may not have been doing.
It's my "Upper body cross training", sort of like let's see how agile you are from an
upper body stand point.
Everybody always talks about how they can be agile with their feet, but again you wanna
look like an athlete, you gotta train like an athlete.
So let's get down, come out on the ground here, I wanna put you through a quick circuit.
You're gonna shuffle to your left over there, perform 5 push-ups.
1, 2 nice and quick, 3, 4, 5, shuffle back.
Good, there you go.
1,2,3,4,5, go back the other side.
You go 4 rounds of 5 here, guys.
[pause] >> Jeff: OK, go back one more time.
Good, 5.
OK, now bring yourself into the center, right in the center of the floor.
What we're gonna do here is called the "clock taps".
We're gonna hold a really tiny medicine ball right here.
Now imagine...sink back a little bit, come back, you can rest for a second.
From this plank position, you've got this clock right here: 12 o'clock, 1 o'clock, 2
o'clock, 3 o'clock and you've got 11 o'clock, 10 o'clock and 9 o'clock over there.
Now if I call out numbers, you're gonna touch...if it's 12, you've gotta touch with both hands.
Right hand touch, left hand touch.
If it's 3 o'clock, you're gonna reach with your right hand out to the side for 3 o'clock
over here, ok?
Now for the guys at home, you can make up your own patterns, with the point here is
you're going for upper body agility, quickness and stability.
For this guy with his shoulder, these are excellent exercises.
Alright, get yourself up into a plank, engage your core, grab the ball with your right hand,
let's go 12 o'clock nice and quick.
Good, 3 o'clock.
9 o'clock.
2 o'clock.
12 o'clock.
11 o'clock.
9 and 3.
That's it.
3 and 9.
2 and 10.
Good guy, we've got a smart guy here.
12.
Last one, 3-9.
Ok, that's good.
Now bring it down.
So you do a little pattern here, you kinda keep it about 30 seconds of switches in there.
Now we're gonna do what we call the "staggered push-ups".
10 seconds of these, I know it's your first time through this circuit.
If I wanted to, I would increase this to like 20-30 seconds.
Staggered push-ups are with your hands staggered, jump, you know...explosive ply push-up into
your other switch position.
Alright.
One down, up and switch.
That's it.
5,6,7,8,9,10.
Good work.
Now last one, you're gonna stand down there, side plain switches.
You're gonna work your core, you're gonna work the side of your pillar strength.
I'd like to do these fairly quickly, so 8 each, alright?
You're gonna stay there, then rapidly switch up to you right side.
Now down and switch to the left.
Good, keep that core up, engage, pull up hard, that's it.
All the way around, there you go!
Good.
8 each.
Come on, up!
Pull yourself.
Come on, hold this up.
When it gets hard, this is the time when you have to dig in.
That's it.
[pause] >> Jeff: I lost count.
What have you got?
>> Adam: I don't know.
>> Jeff: Alright, go one more each.
Alright, cool.
That's it.
Now one real quick hard-hitting circuit for your upper body, but not static stuff, but
stuff we are actually moving around, getting a little bit more agile, work your muscles
obviously, so it's a strength and conditioning circuit and really just combining that to
being more agile, athletic.
We want that athlete's body, so that's what you're going for, that's what you've got right
now, that's what you wanna do to keep it.
Guys at home, if you haven't already, if this guy doesn't inspire you enough, go to athleanx.com,
get your copy of the new athLEAN-X breakthrough new training system.
As you can see, a lot of this stuff can be done at home.
There's two versions, there's a strip down version, where every single thing can be done
in a little space like this or you can get the complete version.
They both come complete with the purchase of the program.
You can print it out, grab it and go, take it to the gym and follow these exercises.
Adam, you're an inspiration for a lot of guys out there.
Keep up the good work, we'll have you back here again soon.
>> Adam: Absolutely.
>> Jeff: Alright.
And take it easy, man.
Guys, take it easy.