Do you think all strength is alike?
I am going to show you the difference today between being strong, and being strong like
an athlete.
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What's up guys?
Jeff Cavaliere ATHLEANX.com
Here with another video and this time to show you something very very critical.
The difference between strength and what I like to call, ATHLEAN strength.
Now I can show strength, we are going to use a back exercise just by loading up the weight
stack.
We will go all the way down to the bottom.
It is a 200 lb weight stack.
I am going to drop down into position here: one arm row, in here, and pull.
OK?
That is an example of strength; I am moving force.
I am moving that weight stack up, I am working my back.
But you can render even the most powerful guy pretty useless, if they don't have what
you call athletic strength.
So from that what we want to do is start challenging the body in 3 dimensions.
So not just front to back; we also want to be able to challenge the front to back, side
to side, and rotational dimensions here.
3 dimensions of movement.
So we do an exercise called the Palof Press.
You come out here, OK?
Right away this thing wants to rotate me back that way, as you can see.
I have to work my core to bring this out to the side.
The next thing we do is we get up on one leg.
So now I have a balance issue OK?
It wants to pull be back here and it also wants to pull me over.
Then we make ourselves taller with the press by pushing straight up overhead.
So now if I let myself go, I would also fall over that way too.
So by incorporating multiple dimensions and resistance in all those dimensions
Now all of a sudden we have to be more than strong.
We have to be functionally strong.
So what I want you guys to do is, do this exercise.
And don't worry, you don't have to have a cable.
I will show you real quick what you can do with tubing or a band to make this equivalent.
But get on that one leg, take your hands together, keep them up, press it up over your head.
You can see that every time I press up, this side of my core has to fire extra hard to
prevent me from going that way.
Even my bicep on my side here has to work from keep me back up over here.
So again--get over here!--up, press, press straight up.
I guarantee it you are going to be burning now.
If you find that you can't maintain your balance, and you keep falling over.
I have 40 lbs up there and pulling me in that direction.
If you can't hold at least, say, 30-40 lbs, you are not training the right way.
I don't care how strong you are, you are not athletically strong.
And that is exactly why I keep saying guys
If you want to look like an athlete, you have to train like one.
That is why you have to start training with ATHLEAN-X.
You have got to start training with a program that works your body this way because you
are not used to doing that.
If you want to make this exercise just a little bit harder; not only do we push it up here,
but we can push it out and up.
At an oblique angle, sort of up towards the horizon.
Now it is even more so that you have got to resist that motion there.
OK?
Not only that but what is also interesting is that your leg is on the ground from your
foot all the way up to your glute will be on fire
Because that is your stabilization, right?
Try to resist that rotation back in that direction.
So we are really taking about exercises that work from your toes to your finger tips.
One last time with a band, same thing.
Up, press, so there is your home variation, or up and out.
OK?
Try that guys, if you can't maintain your balance, if you are falling over, if you are
burning too much, or if you simply can't do it-
-It is time to start training more athletically.
If you want to look like an athlete, you have to train like one.
Head to AthleanX.com, get started on the 90 day training system.
A complete step-by-step, week by week progression to get you not just strong-I still want you
to be able to do all that strength work--
And get bigger and stronger muscles, but we want to make them functional too.
I will be back here guys next week, with another cool video for you.