Welcome Friend(s),
How do you train? Do you train on your own? With a partner or a trainer? Either way there is a pretty good chance that for the most part you do a lot of the same (if not similar) exercises more often than you would like. CORRECT? For example bench press, curls, squats, etc.
If so, get out of your one dimensional way(s) and mix things up a bit. There a three different planes in which your body can move in: saggital which runs front to back dividing you into right and left halves, frontal which runs from left to right dividing your body into front and back halves and the transverse plane which divides the body top and bottom halves. Each plane allows for different movements such as leg extension and biceps curls in the saggital plane, lateral raises and shoulder shrugs in the frontal plane, and trunk rotations in the transverse plane.
My challenge to you is to try and incorporate movements from at least two of these planes simultaneously in one exercise inorder to increase functional training effeciency and decrease the boredom. We don't opperate in a one dimensional life so why should we train in one?
Listed is a list of my favorite muli-plane exercises to get you started.
1. Burpees w/ or w/out push-up- (saggital/frontal) hands down my absolute favorite!
2. Ski-Jackers-(saggital/fontal) (transverse with a twist)
3. Dead-Lift- (saggital/ frontal)
4. Lunge w/ med-ball twist (saggital/ transverse)
5. 3 jacks (saggital/ frontal)
Feel free to give these a try and see what it adds to your training.
Best Wishes and Good Luck,
Derek
