Our body loves to train reciprocally and interestingly when you use this concept of reciprocal training the workloads you can create are amazing.  Not surprising, because you are using the body the way it was designed to work and when the body is working efficiently… you rock.

This week I cranked out a 20-10 Ultimate Tabatas Reciprocal Push – Pull routine that will not only blast fat but the number it does on your trunk will completely rip you up.  Don’t plan on sneezing the next day and laughing may be a love – hate relationship with your rib cage for 48 hours.

Also if you are not a good pusher like many people I work with, try to pull fast and see what happens with your pushing.   Look out because you will explode when you really get it going.

Here are a few tips to doing effective reciprocal push – pull training:

1.         Don’t always emphasize number of reps.  Instead see how fast you can push each individual rep by reloading on each rep.  You will see how I do this.  Interestingly, I think quality reps burn even more calories than if you just try to knock out a lot of reps.

2.         Also don’t keep your feet the same.  Change it up on every round.  Your trunk and hips will hate you but your back will love you.   By the way if you are into hitting the heavy bag.  Do this workout first and then go hit the bag.  Look out because you may bring it down.

3.         Make sure you stay athletic and let the system load.  As I always say, learn to load and you are guaranteed to explode with incredible punching power.

4.         No low back pain.  This means you are not loading and instead are trying to muscle with your upper body.  Your punch starts from the floor and must go through your hips.  Use them.

Enjoy and as always, any resistance band questions, you know where to find me:

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Thanks BJ for showing me how to crank the intensity with Ultimate Tabatas Powered by Workout Muse!

The Band Man is out of here!!

Reactive Training – Powerful Results

Dave “The Band man” Schmitz

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Dave Schmitz (Physical Therapist and CSCS) is the resistance band training innovator when it comes to creating functionally based resistance band workouts.  His Advanced Total Fitness Package  will provide any fitness enthusiast with 100 strength training and metabolic workouts that use the concept of reciprocal training which when it comes to getting functionally strong, is the only way to train.

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