Total Upper Body Crank with Bands

It’s just not good enough to always train bilaterally or unilaterally.  Our upper and lower extremities are wired to alternate.  Training alternating movements will….

• Increase trunk reaction
• Increase balance and coordination
• Increase power production by integrating rotation
• Improve our hand-eye coordination
• Increase our metabolic workload
• Increase dynamic stability and flexibility

One of my favorite workouts is a total upper body alternating series of 5 exercises that train all the upper body horizontal movements.

However I add in a little “Band Man” special touch.    Most people when they train alternate movements have one side resting while the other side is working.

Not the Band Man….  While my one side is cranking out a rep, my other side is locked and loaded into a stabilizing contraction that after about 20 seconds will start making your body squirm under the pressure.

Man up and don’t you dare let the non-moving arm cave under the pressure!!

40-20 MMA Workout Muse will make this alternating resistance band workout a thing of beauty.

40 seconds on – 20 seconds off x 5 Exercises… Repeat 5 Rounds

1. 1. Horizontal Chest Press
2. 2. Stationary Squat Pull
3. 3. Bent over shoulder press
4. 4. Horizontal Curls
5. 5. Overhead Tricep Extension

Good Luck and Let it rip… or should I say ….Let it Crank.

Schmitty the Band Man

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Dave Schmitz (Physical Therapist and CSCS) is the resistance band training expert when it comes to creating functionally based resistance band workouts that train the body the way it was meant to work.  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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