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Being a personal trainer in NYC that travels all around Manhattan means that I’m ALWAYS on the go. I have limited time to sit down and eat especially during peak hours, which makes eating a sit-down meal pretty much impossible. This put me on the search to find a healthy replacement that was quick, wasn’t perishable, and minimal in surgars/carbs.
Many people will look at this exercise and freak out. Of course for the regular population this exercise is very dangerous and has no merit. But for a highly qualified athlete this exercise would be called a “Specialized Exercise”.
Defined as:
“An exercise that duplicates the movement witnessed in a certain segment of the sports skill”These specialized exercises are usually done for the highly qualified athlete that doesn’t gain as much benefits from regular exercises like the rest of us. With that said, too many people are trying to create exercises that will have minimal translation or even execute exercises that will have minimal translation because of their lack of qualification.
Sites such as YouTube has given many athletes a platform to show off how they train, the problem is many of the popular videos are of highly skilled athletes. Yet blindly, young athletes believe because “X athlete trains this way I should too”. Clearly this far from the truth, there are too many variables such as training history, strength/Power of the athlete, DNA, sport skill development etc…
Without making this post into a program design book, the point is for a majority of athletes they will need the basic fundamentals with some tweaks for subjectivity and sport skills. Outside of that it’s hard work, recovery, and training smart!
I absolutely hate it when I see a unqualified Coach implementing specialized exercises for unqualified athletes or just as bad “creating” exercises that have minimal translation to sport and becomes wasted time and effort of the athlete. For example I watched an MMA athlete doing shoots to Zercher lunges, did this make sense? Would the athlete have better gained strength from doing Zercher split squat/lunges without the shoot? Or even just a general strength exercise? Most likely this athletes performance gains will be better developed from training without the shoot, he than could work on his sport skill such as shoots in practice.
That’s all for today. Train smart!
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You’ve seen this squat mobility drill above, it’s common for a majority of the population to look like the above pic. The issue isn’t necessarily the drill itself but the execution of the movement.
The “Palloff Hold” is a great trunk strengthening exercise that you should be implementing in your routines. In the top video we go over 3 different variations:
Before you read on, PLEASE take ONE minute & NINE seconds to watch this video:
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Client Development
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