This is an awesome exercise with the MostFit™ Resistance Tube that can be scaled up or down for anyone who wants to work on their upper body pushing strength, while getting a little core work in at the same time. Efficient!
The prime movers in this exercise are your pectorals major and minor, triceps, and anterior deltoids. Because you are performing this exercise standing, your spinal stabilizers/core will also be working at the same time. The core challenge can be toned down by staggering your feet in a mini-lunge, or can be intensified by performing this exercise on one foot. You can even throw some balance discs under the feet (or foot) if you really want to get fancy.
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.
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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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"Mobilization with Movement - Lateral Hip Distraction"
Hip mobility exercises with the MostFit™ Resistance Band are perfect for athletes that get pinching or pain in your hip joint when squatting. Our hip joint takes a beating with all the running, jumping and walking that we do during the day. This leads to compression of the superior aspect of the acetabulum and can subsequently lead to that pinch you feel when in hip flexion. Distraction is the hips reward for putting up with our active lifestyles.
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.
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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.
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.
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"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.
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Strengthen your arms and core with MostFit™ Resistance Tube Bicep curls. The constant and varying resistance on your arms requires you to engage your core and stay balanced during the exercise. Be sure to keep your chest up, abs engaged and knees bent slightly.
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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It's no secret that sitting wreaks havoc on our bodies - and it's definitely no secret that most of us spend the majority of our day sitting with horrible posture! Hip and knee flexion, glenohumeral internal rotation, thoracic flexion, and scapular protraction. Translated = that horrible position that you are sitting in now. This exercise will get you out of the chair, and strengthen all those muscles on your backside that see way too little action.
Specifically, the prime movers you use to bring you into scapular retraction, thoracic extension, and glenohumeral extension/external rotation are your middle trapezii, rhomboids, posterior deltoids, latissimus dorsi, infraspinati, teres minors and paraspinals.
The beautiful thing about training with the MostFit™ Suspension Strap is that every exercise will have you working your core and all your stabilizer muscles at the same time. This ramps up the nervous system, activating more muscle, which will make your workouts much more effective and efficient.
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.
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