What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, Athlean-X.com.
So, I was going to do an entirely different video tonight and something came across my
desk that forced me to change my hand.
You see, there was a recent poll that was done, or a fitness test that's supposed to
determine how long you're going to live.
10 drills, or exercises that you're supposed to be able to do to ensure a longer life.
In that group of drills was this one particular one called the Standing and Rising Test.
Apparently, this is one of the ones that causes a lot of problems for people.
They sit there and they pass it around, and I'm going to show you what it is because I
want you to try it.
Whether or not you can, or can't do it I think there's a really big, important message that
spawned off of this that made me feel so strongly about making this video.
It is: let's raise our standards of fitness.
You see, here's what the Standing and Rising Test is: I'll stand up out of frame here so
you can see it.
Basically, you're supposed to be able to cross your feet, and without using your hands, your
knees, or your shins you're supposed to be able to lower yourself down to the ground
here, and then you're supposed to be able to rise up off the floor without using your
hands, your knees, or your shins.
Now, obviously that was easy for me.
It's not supposed to say "Look how good I am and how I can do it."
No!
This is fucking easy because it's supposed to be easy.
You see, we can't let this be the standard of excellence.
The fact that I could get off the ground without using my knees, my shins, or my hands?
Good.
Congratulations, Jeff!
You're a human being.
If we were a kid, when we were babies we did that all the time.
We made things look easy.
Why is it that as we get older – and I mean even in your 20s – why is it that when we
get older we start allowing people to tell us what's normal for your age and what you
can and can't do.
You can't use the excuse "I'm getting old.
I'm too old for that shit."
Too old for what?
To get off the ground by yourself?
Without needing the Life Alert?
"Help me, I've fallen!
I can't get up!"
We need to be able to have much higher standards for what we do.
So, try it out and see and test yourself in private.
Again, if you can't do it, here's the thing: let it be a wakeup call.
Let it be a wakeup call.
This should be something that should be easy for you.
If it's not, you might have a problem with your lower body strength, you might have a
problem with your balance, you might have a problem with coordination, you could have
some orthopedic issues; your knees might hurt.
I've got pretty shitty knees myself, but I was still able to get up.
If those are the things; start working on them.
You can.
There are so many things you can do.
At Athlean-X here, I try to train you like an athlete.
Like a professional athlete.
Even though I know you don’t make a living as a professional athlete, I try to train
you like a professional athlete by giving you the same exact things that I let these
guys that come and make a living off of being a professional athlete are doing.
I have high aspirations for you.
You still possess the same levels and capacity for strength and balance and coordination
and quickness.
You have the same capacity, you're just not allowing yourself to realize it.
You're trying to set these limitations up being either too old, or just not a pro.
Let's raise the standards.
I hope you can all get off the ground and if you can, congratulations.
I really am glad.
I think a lot of guys watching this channel who followed me for a long time are going
to be able to ace that test really easily, but if you can't, again, not picking on you
at all; but it's a wakeup call.
It's time to start changing your habits and doing some things.
Again, even if you are able to ace this, that's just a standard of well-below our standards.
So we're going to take you to that next level.
We have so many challenges in Athlean-X to make sure that we take it to these extreme
levels of fitness and we walk you through them and get you there step by step.
If you guys are looking for that plan and to let me take you through and raise your
standards then head to Athlean-X.com right now and get one of our Athlean-X training
systems and work your way up.
From the bottom all the way up you'll get better.
That's the key.
Day by day.
If you've found this video to be eye opening – again, this is what we're setting as our
standard of fitness excellence – leave your comments below.
In the meantime, I will bring that video to you that I promised I was going to make.
We're going to do something on the shoulders again later this week; a really good shoulder
training tip that you might not have been aware of.
I'll bring that to you in a couple days.
I wanted to make sure I got this out to you as soon as this came across my desk.
It was that eye opening for me.
I'll see you guys back here again real soon.