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February 22, 2015

SYN Rings Thrusters: Stability Squat with Overhead Press

SYN Rings Thrusters: Stability Squat with Overhead Press

Stability weight training with the MostFit™ SYN Rings promotes core stabilization, explosive muscle engagement, and athletic development, helping you to improve your overall fitness. Try these Thrusters during your next workout or training session. The instability created by the three dimensions of movement produced by the SYN Rings forces the user to stabilize the shoulders and hips, and engage the core that much more. Using the SYN Rings to perform these Thrusters can also highlight imbalances on either side of the body and promote better balance and form.

How to perform this weightlifting exercise

Start standing upright with the bar in both hands, palms forward, resting across the front of the shoulders. Feet should be slightly wider than hips or in any proper squat position. Bend knees and hips as you lower into a squat, continue until your elbows touch your knees than return to the standing position as you press the bar overhead. Be sure to stabilize the bar and SYN Rings as best as you can before repeating the exercise.

Consult a physician before performing this or any exercise program. You as the user are responsible independently for use of any fitness programs or equipment and assume the risks of any resulting injury.


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September 26, 2014

Explosive Leg Power Workout With Dr. Santo & MostFit™ SYN Rings

Weightlifting Bar Attachments - MostFit SYN Rings

 

 

Explosive Leg Power Workout With Dr. Santo & MostFit SYN Rings

There is no sport that explosive lower body power isn’t a requirement. Power training has even been shown to help the elderly prevent falls and improve their quality of life!  These three exercises focus on everything you need to decrease your time off the line, get to the ball first, or add some heat to your fastball.  

The squat/lunge combo with the MostFit SYN Rings will prime your nervous system and wake up your legs and core.  The quick step with the MostFit Band and jumping lunges with the MostFit Suspension Strap focus more on explosive speed and raw lower extremity power.  When performing in a circuit, keep your reps between 5-10 and rest a minute between exercises to get the most carryover for speed.  Or on the other hand, these exercises can be performed one after another with minimal rest for a calorie burning superset!

Dr. Santo Riva, DPT, OCS, NASM-CPT is a doctor of physical therapy and board certified orthopedic specialist at Victory Performance Physical Therapy and Fitness in Los Angeles, California.  He uses instability training to get his patients and clients back into the game and into the best shape of their lives.

@victoryperformance

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April 25, 2014

Legs, Shoulder, Abs & Stability Workout With MostFit™ Fitness Products

 

Legs, Shoulder, Abs & Stability Workout

Suspension Training With MostFit™ Portable Fitness Equipment

Check out this stability strength training workout with the MostFit™Suspension Strap and MostFit™ SYN Rings! Four great exercises, Single leg lunges, Alternating lunges, Over Head shoulder press and Plank knee tucks all done with the added intensity of MostFit. Your core and your motor controls will be challenged along with your glutes, legs, arms and shoulders in this exercise routine.

Consult a physician before performing this or any exercise program. You as the user are responsible independently for use of any fitness programs or equipment and assume the risks of any resulting injury.

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March 19, 2014

Back Squat Exercise With MostFit™ SYN Rings

 

Back Squat Exercise With MostFit™ SYN Rings 

The back squat is one of the best total body exercises that can be done. While your quads, glutes, and hamstrings are the primary movers, all the muscles that help keep your spine rigid, especially the spinal extensors in this case, have to be working at full capacity.  If these muscles are not strong enough or are not doing their job, your spine will collapse quicker than a stack of Jenga blocks with a 2 year old, and you'll be lucky if you can peel yourself off the ground without a major injury.  

Stability Training With Weightlifting Bar Weight Attachments

MostFit™ SYN Rings take the back squat to a whole new level of intensity.  With a regular back squat, your body only has to deal with a load in one direction - down.  Throw on the Syn Rings and now your body has to stabilize against forces going in all directions.  This ramps up the excitability of the nervous system, which engages more muscle, leading to bigger strength gains, more calories burned, and plateaus crushed.  Try a set of these with 50-65% of your 1-rep-max before you lift heavy, and see how much lighter the weights feel once your nervous system has been primed. 

Dr. Santo Riva, DPT, OCS, NASM-CPT is a doctor of physical therapy and board certified orthopedic specialist at Evolution Physical Therapy and Fitness in Los Angeles, California.  He uses instability training to get his patients and clients back into the game and into the best shape of their lives.

@EvolutionPTFIt

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March 19, 2014

Stability Chest Press Exercise Using MostFit™ SYN Rings

 

 

 Stability Chest Press Exercise Using MostFit™ SYN Rings 

"International Chest Day" Mondays just got a little more intense with the MostFit™ SYN Rings.  While the chest press is an excellent exercise to work your pectoralis major/minor, triceps complex and anterior deltoid, why not throw some serratus anterior, supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor and subscapularis in there too?  Oh yeah, don't forget transversus abdominus, rectus abdominus, multifidi, and your internal and external obliques!

The MostFit Syn Rings turns your ordinary chest press into a whole new beast. The Syn Rings change the game by making an exercise with a force vector in only one direction - down - into an exercise that requires you to resist forces in every direction to prevent the bar from ripping your shoulder out of the socket and giving you a nice dent across the face when the bar lands on it.  This means more neural activation to more muscle fibers in your spinal and shoulder stabilizers, not just the prime movers.  Try a set of these with 50-65% of your 1-rep-max before you lift heavy, and see how much lighter the weights feel once your nervous system has been primed.

Dr. Santo Riva, DPT, OCS, NASM-CPT is a doctor of physical therapy and board certified orthopedic specialist at Evolution Physical Therapy and Fitness in Los Angeles, California.  He uses instability training to get his patients and clients back into the game and into the best shape of their lives.

@EvolutionPTFIt

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January 29, 2014

Introducing MostFit™ SYN Rings for Stability Weight Training

 

Introducing MostFit™ SYN Rings for Stability Weight Training

MostFit™ SYN Rings | Olympic Weightlifting Bar Attachments

MostFit™ SYN Rings add a new type of intensity to your workout! MostFit™ SYN Rings allow the user to suspend weight plates from an Olympic weightlifting bar creating instability, forcing the user to engage more core and stability muscles, and increase overall strength. They allow the weight plates to move in all directions, including forward, back, side-to-side, up-and-down, and in circular motions. Stability weight training with the MostFit™ SYN Rings promotes core stabilization, explosive muscle engagement, and athletic development, helping people to improve their overall fitness!

Workout Benefits Of MostFit™ SYN Rings:

  • Easily attaches to a standard Olympic weightlifting bar
  • Promotes explosive muscle engagement
  • Lightweight, compact and portable

MostFit™ Strives to provide unique, effective, efficient and affordable fitness products to help you be the MostFit™ You Can Be.

Consult a physician before performing this or any  exercise program. You as the user are responsible  independently for use of any fitness programs or equipment and assume the risks of any resulting injury.

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January 29, 2014

Stability Chest Press With MostFit™ SYN Rings

 

Stability Chest Press Exercises With MostFit™ SYN Rings

Enhanced Stability Weight Training With MostFit™ SYN Rings

Stability chest press exercises with MostFit™ SYN Rings. Stability weight training with the MostFit™ SYN Rings will force you to engage more core and stabilizer muscle during a chest press helping you build more stable arms and shoulder muscles, explosive upper body strength and a stronger core. Use a spotter.

Consult a physician before performing this or any  exercise program. You as the user are responsible  independently for use of any fitness programs or equipment and assume the risks of any resulting injury.

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