Strength Exercise Library – Band Lowerbody Warmup

This is the typical lowerbody warm up we use at the gym with the band. We just try to hit every muscle group and movement we can paying special attention to the muscles around the hip and knee joints, making sure they are ready for the upcoming workout.
Squats
Good Morning
Deadlift
Good Morning with Iron Cross Hold (thanks Smitty from the Diesel Crew http://dieselcrew.com and Joe DeFranco http://defrancotraining.com)
Single Leg Good Morning/RDL
Lunge
Lying Hamstring
Ankle Flexion and Extension
X-Lateral Walks
Terminal Knee Extensions (TKE)

Tags: Lower Body, Warm Up

Synergy Strength Seminar Video Review

Here is the video review of the Synergy Strength Seminar on February 21st, 2009 in Southern California. Enjoy!

Tags: Conditioning, Strength

Strong 101 Seminar Review Day 2

Day 2 of the seminar started with Mike going through his general warm up which he also used to assess new athletes.  All of the exercises. excluding the jump rope and abdominals, require the use of a band.

• Jump rope 2-5 min
• Face pulls
• Pull aparts
• Overhead pull aparts
• Squat
• Bent over row
• Push ups
• Single arm military press
• Front raise
• Bicep curl
• Straight arm shoulder rotations
• Tricep extensions
• Abdominals; leg lifts, knee ups, or crunches

After the general warm up was complete Mike went into the specific warm up which targeted the lower body.

• Walking lunge forward
• Walking lunge backward
• Walking lunge dropping elbow to same side ankle
• Crab walk (what he called a low lateral shuffle)
• Knee up walks
• Lying single leg hamstring raises
• Lying knees side-to-side
• Rollover to V-sit
• Fire hydrants (on all fours)
• Straight leg abduction (on all fours)

Matt Holmes added a few exercises and said he only does only a few during his warm up due to the time constrains of training.  He added a few sets of:

• Skips forward
• Skips backward
• Butt kicks

When we were done with the lower body specific warm up we were ready to train our legs.  Mike likes to start with a double leg movement and then go to single legs after.  We performed a few sets of:

• Zercher squats
• Bulgarian split squats with front foot elevated on a cinder block
• D. Bell step ups
• K. Bell single leg RDL with foot elevated on a cinder block

After that we went outside to watch a few of the strongman athletes train for their upcoming competition.  They were training the overhead medley with some crazy weight that I use to deadlift.  After that they did some semitruck pulling which we were all able to participate in, it made for a great training opportunity and video.

Lower body was done, truck was pulled, and lunch was eaten it was now time for Mike and Matt to get us through an upper body routine.

• Floor press
• Floor press drop sets with chains
• Double K. Bell [runway] rows (40, 35, 32, 27, 24 kgs)
• Spiderman push ups
• Wheelbarrow walks
• Wall walk ups (with and without handstand push ups)
• Battle ropes

Matt brought in some of his heavy sand bags and demonstrated some of his favorite exercises;

• Deadlift
• Clean
• Clean to press
• Shouldering

After we completed all of our training we did an Q&A session where Mike and Matt talked about everything from training to the business side of their work.

I have always thought that the best seminars are the ones where they throw you into their environment and you learn directly from the trainers with the exercises they do and in the gym in environment they train.  Mike and Matt delivered a great seminar that makes you want to train harder than ever before and come back to learn more.

Please check out their sites:

www.strong101.com

www.BodySynergy.com

Tags: Conditioning, strenght Seminar, Strength, Strong 101