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Hey guys, Jeff Cavaliere from AthleanX .com, bringing here a pretty interesting story.
IF you haven’t read about it on my blog, first of all you should check up the blog,
I’ve been updating it pretty much daily now, is at athleanx.com/ BLOG.
There is an interesting story coming out, yesterday, that the U.S Military wanted to
change the way that they test the physical readiness of its soldiers.
You know it wants to get rid of a lot of things that they determine that they really weren’t
functional and didn’t really carry over the battlefield for the things they actually
do.
And if it doesn’t rig a bell already, that’s really the whole emphasis here on AthleanX,
is that “ let me get you to integrate muscles and do exercises that gonna give you the most
bang for your block, and actually train them by the way that it’s meant to be trained”.
I’m telling you, if you continue to train the way that you have, with the standard exercises
and not integrated movements and things, you’re not getting the best results you can.
So, the U.S Military has sort of decided, it agrees and it’s gonna do the same thing.
One of the drills that have these soldiers do now is carry a dragon sled, a 185 sled
for distance.
And they wanted to simulate caring like a fallen comrade and seeing if you it could
actually be pulled under safety.
Another one that they did was carrying on weight air, to 30 pounds jugs of ignition
while they walk the battles field.
So, that got me to thinking, is that the best thing that they could do, as especially for
that drill?
You know, testing balance but at the same time sort of working on your ability to maintain
a stable posture by having this on weight things.
I’m saying why not go on equal ways?
Why not take a weight double the weight on the other hand and then see if you can do
that same thing.
That’s gonna be much more of a challenge and I also figured, I don’t know about you
but I was thought n football that when you wanna stay, if you wanna win, you gotta stay
low.
If you stay lower that the other guy than you’re gonna win.
I think you’re probably do the same thing in battle, because you’re not gonna wanna
be standing up as tall as possible.
I think those are the guys that might get hit by the bullet.
So, how about if we take an exercise and we tweak it a little more and make that a little
bit improvement on with the U.S. Military is current doing?
So, let’s take a 20 pounds weight and a 40 pounds weight, we’ll get down low, ok?
Now up high, and walking our balance skill, we’re gonna get down low into a spot squat
position.
And now, you know I’ll get my knee up and I start this exercise, but you gonna want
to stay low, so if you’re here you stay low and then you stay low, and then you stay
low, you stay low, ok?
And the whole time if you can try to keep your feet pretty much in line with each other,
so we’re still working this balance.
Now, let’s say I got to the other side, I can switch hands here, put the 40 over here,
the 20 over here, get down , keep your head up, stay low thought, and switch, and stay
low, and switch, and stay low , and switch .
So, just a quick tweak on what they’re doing, and don’t get me, you know, don’t get
me , this shift to this more dynamic functional stuff is perfect and it’s exactly what we’re
talking about with AthleanX . If you wanna be more explosive, if you wanna have a body
of an athlete, you gotta train more athletically.
Doing leg extensions for your legs is not gonna integrate muscles the way that doing
these types of things integrate upper body, lower body balance, coordination , core strength,
stability, all those things, and that’s what AthleanX is all about.
And it appears that’s what the U.S Military it’s all about now too.
So, guys, if you haven’t already, first of all go check out that blog athleanx.com/blog,
read all about that story and all the others that I’ve written about this week, and head
over to athleanx.com and grab your own copy of the AthleanX training system.
Guys start straining just like this; prepare yourself the way that the U.S Military is
preparing their soldiers.
Be in the best shape of your life.
Guys, we’ll be back here again next week, with some more videos, I’ll keep them coming,
and you guys keep the suggestions coming.
I’ll see you soon!