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. (more…)