I wanted to see about mixing up my gym days a bit so feel free to drop some nuggets. I do the Davies Ten shoulder routine for overhead sport athletes and it's served me well for a long time, but have been quite negligent of directly attacking my core and legs. That's what I'm mainly looking for here....some low back friendly core and leg routines that allow me to keep my posterior chain engaged with good back support. Thanks all....
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For the last two years I've been using stretch-cord exercises three times a week for my drylands and I supplement them with some leg work in the weight room twice a week. I also use this routine with my middle-school and high school swimmers. They're easy, inexpensive and safe. Coach T
I had two of them, both broken. Perhaps I used to much force on them.
MY fav dryland is:
i have a special spoon.
and a special bowl.
then i get either BlueBell Mocha Almond Fudge or Chocolate Mooo-linium or Carmel Sunday Crunch and put in a few scoops.
then my right arm gets a workout lifting it all to my mouth while my left arm gets a workout holding it tight.
not saying its the "best" dry land workout, but i doubt someone will post a better one! :D
:applaud: Blue Bell Tiramisu is also worthy of such a regimen, IMO. It's hard to find which somehow makes it even better.
My latest dryland shoulder exercise is to hang from a pullup-bar and retract my scapula. It's NOT doing a pullup - it works scapular stabilizers. Initially I could hold it for about ten seconds; now I'm at 30. I also do single-arm side planks.
We took the kids to the SkyZone trampoline park this past weekend... let me tell you...90 minutes of jumping around is a great core/leg workout... I'm sore 2 days later... probably not the best thing since I'm swimming state this weekend!
