Foundation IX

Balance: Remix

You've trained yourself to balance your body, now train the body to be balanced. Instead of equilibrium, this time I'm talking about balanced movement. For each push, there's a pull.

You've seen that guy walking around the gym on pencil legs with the rounded shoulders, knuckles dragging the ground while he walks? That's anterior rounding. He's not working through his back and legs as much as he's working his bench and those "curls for the girls." He's also predispositioned himself for injury and back pain. Don't be neanderthal man. Train balanced movements.

Pull a weight towards your body. Do it a certain amount of times. Now find an equivalent weight and push it away from the body in the same manner. Pick a weight up and throw it away.

Take foundations 2, 4, 5 & 7. Get outside, reach down to the ground, pick up something heavy and throw the thing as hard as you can. Ask the boys over at the Eads House of Pain how much fun it can be to throw a kettlebell on the beach.