Now I'm going to show
you actually my favorite
piece of exercise
equipment called the ARAD the advanced
resistive exercise device
it's got a platform and it's
got a bar that can you can
extend an exercise bar that we
can use for any kind of
squats or even just curls or
a military seated press
or something like that and dead
lifting and things like
that and we also have a cable
there in the middle you can
see the clip coming out that we can
attach some hardware
to do cable exercises like
curls crunches tricep
extensions things like this and I'm
going to demonstrate how
we use this hardware this is
actually a really really
terrific piece of hardware that's
very very useful we can
adjust the loading here by
this cranking lever and then
we can go from zero to 600 pounds
so it's plenty to reach
any bit of loading that we'd
that you could imagine on
this bar and on the cable as well and
then for squats I use
everyone's got a different
setting you can use this
bar to raise or lower the bar
these two pit pins and
we'll raise it up to where to
my normal setting for
squats and I'll demonstrate just a
regular squat for you
so then we raise the bar and
set it at 24 and then we'll
know the number of repetitions
we have to do and also
the loading and so let's say
we'll put on 200 pounds on
this one for the squat and you have to
remember that the
numbers here are going to be a
little bit larger than
what we're used to on the ground
because you know I
weigh 200 pounds so putting 200
pounds on my back is actually
just replicating my body weight on
earth and actually it's
quite eye opening when you
first get here and you put
200 pounds on this machine for me
which is my body weight and
then I lift it on my shoulders
cause it feels very very
heavy on my shoulders when I first get
here and I have to
convince myself that hey this
is just my body weight
and so I have to work somewhere
way beyond this to be
building muscle for when I
come home you don't need a
harness or anything because this
weight is actually
going to hold us down and so
we'll get into position and
get it onto our shoulders like a
normal squat and so we
want to kind of bend back just a
little bit and get in good
form and we'll do a couple of squats
here so we'll bring it
down in real good form and
then back up ad you can
see how much the platform is
moving and how much the
machine is moving to counteract
that force that we're
imparting on the squat our bench that we
use for the bench press
or a shoulder press and we
also lay back on this to do
our crunches and tricep extensions
several exercises make
use of this bench of course we
have a strap to tie us down
because we definitely need that and
then we'll extend the
four legs and it clips in
this is much like the
piece of hardware that are on our
seats on the space
shuttle they're much like this and
we'll clip that in and
make it attach to the platform and
locked in and then
we'll demonstrate the bench
press in order to overcome
gravity on the bench we'll strap
ourselves down here so we
get that all ready to go and we
raise the bar over our head
and so we're ready to go with the
bench press and again
it's just like a regular
bench press in the gym you
get positioned properly and then
start into your
repetitions and so you do however many
repetitions are in your
protocol and once you're done with that
you can put the bar
back down and actually this is
my favorite part you are
looking out the cupola so we got
windows down here that
we're actually looking at the earth
and so we just kind of float
off the bench try that at home.