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How are you friends? I am Cavalier from
trinexespañol.com.
If you could only do 10 exercises for
the rest of your life, what would they be?
Keep in mind that they can't make
anything else so your choices
are important.
I have prepared my list of days and I am
sure I leave some out. The
I'll go over and tell you why I choose 10 and
you can see how they compare to the
of yours. Let's start with my first
pick. It is the box squat or squat a
box.
The reason we do this is to
make sure we have the confidence to
know that there is something to cushion us in
case we can't complete the
rep. And this is important because
many times, especially at the age of
50, as I get older, I want
to have the confidence of knowing that when
I go down to do a squat I won't get
trapped under the bar. I can increase
my safety by making sure the
safety pin is at the proper
height. They should always do that.
But the drawer does something very special.
gives them a reference point
at the start of the repetition. If they are not
doing the exercise well by
articulating their hips well, this will force them
to do it because they must
articulate their hips to begin to
align their butt with the box
they are going to sit on. Many people
tend to squat from the knees,
especially when they lack the
confidence and strength in their legs when
lowering
and working with different weights. If
they are using a lot of weight, they can still
do the box squat. And the drawer
doesn't have to be very high. Ideally
the drawer should be just below
parallel. This way you will be performing a
squat with the appropriate depth. And in
that point will only serve as a
confirmation that they did the
rep at the correct depth.
Just including that box makes a big
difference compared to doing a normal
free squat, giving them that confidence that
often corrects
biomechanical errors that end up causing
pain in the back, hips or
anywhere else.
This will eliminate all those problems and
doing so will make the exercise even better.
We're still on our legs and now it's the
reverse lunge. There is a big
difference between the reverse lunge and
a normal forward lunge and
has to do with how it feels in your
knees. And as someone who has dealt
with knee pain, I will tell you that this
will be a game changer if you are in the
same situation, because the step
back eliminates almost all of the pain and
also very importantly, challenges
your stability and strength in the
frontal plane. And it's strange because it's another
sagittal plane exercise by taking a
step back in this plane. But
when you are on one leg,
unlike when you do the squat, your
hips will want to move, they will want to fall in
one direction or another. And when they do,
they have to use the gluteus medius on that
side to keep their hips level
and prevent it. And that's important because
many of us tend to get very weak in
those muscles, which causes a lot of
lower back pain and other problems that
get worse over time. The key here is
to make sure you have a
base of support that is wide enough, so that when
you step back you don't do it with your feet
in line, but rather backwards and
out. That will broaden their base of support and
make them feel that the challenge is not
balance and they can develop more
strength without balance being the challenge.
limiting factor. The other thing is that when
they go down they have to twist their torso a little over
the front knee to lock themselves
in place and have good
hip stability in the front leg so that
can push themselves back and return to
the standing position. This exercise is
obvious to me, it should be in all
programs. It is a perfect complement
for that bilateral squad.
No matter how old you are,
you should always bench press. And the other
thing with the bench press is that it is
quite functional because at some
moment you could find yourself on the floor
and need to get up and the only way
you will be able to do that is by having the
strength to be able to push your body at least
to a kneeling position
where the strength of your legs will take the
control. I'm not saying that should
be the goal, that they should
establish, that they want to just have the
function of getting up off the ground. I'm saying
that we want to maximize our strength
as we age and the best
way to do that will be with some variation of
a preca. I like to say that I prefer a
dumbbell over the
barbell variation because I feel like it's much easier
on your joints, particularly
your shoulders. And with this
dumbbell bench price I can load the
exercise appropriately to get the
overload needed to provide the
change they are looking for. However, what
would recommend is to adjust the angle of the
bench to what you are seeing here, which is
about 30º. The incline bench press at
30g seems to be the best angle to
balance your ability to use weight
high enough to continue
strengthening you and at the same time
sufficiently protective for your
shoulders. I would also tell them to pull their
shoulders down throughout the
exercise and touch the
lower outside of their chest with the
dumbbells to get a good stretch, a full
range of motion, and go
slowly enough on each rep
to not apply any necessary stress and
to their shoulders. It's a radical
change and one that will stick to their
plan no matter what age they are.
As we move into our fourth
exercise, keep in mind that this is not
a list of geriatric exercises.
is one that if I could go back to my 20s
years I wish I could replace many of the
things I was doing, because
with these exercises I would have laid the
foundation for a healthier version of
me today. But it certainly lays the
foundation for people in their 40s and 50s
to maintain plenty of pain-free ability
for their next two decades of life
or longer. So what is the fourth
exercise? They will work the shoulders and
middle deltoids mainly. It is the
high pull and it is not only the middle
deltoids, but also and importantly the
rear ones. This pull occurs from the bottom
up and is not an upright row. I know
many of you are thinking, "I
can't believe Jeff has finally
lost his mind. After so many years he put
the upright bouquet in his top 10
favorite exercises he'll do for the rest of his
life." That will never be the case. I'm not
doing the pull-up because the
position of the elbow and wrist is very different in
the high pull. Make sure your
wrists are higher than your
elbows because that creates external rotation in
your shoulders instead of the
internal rotation you would get with an upright
row. And that makes a big difference.
when we talk about maintaining long-term
shoulder health. When we do the
high pulldown, we get that abduction that
would normally get in a
lateral raise, except with the
dumbbells a little closer to our body. And
by lowering that arm for the moment and not
having the dumbbells out here,
can actually handle more weight,
as long as they remember to do so. If you
use more weight and keep your elbows
low, you will find a great stimulus in
shoulder abduction to develop
the middle deltoids. And again, it's
important to also stimulate those
rear deltoids because they often don't
get enough attention. You'll see a
common theme here as to why we want to
empathize with these pulling exercises
as we get older, because
gravity will want to pull us
down. We have to do everything we can
to strengthen the muscles that
keep us upright. My choice here is
the high pull. The next one might be
a bit controversial or at least
discussed a bit. And I think people
should do pull-ups from now
until the day they die. And I know that
sounds pretty ambitious, especially
if you're only 20 or 30 and struggling to
make even one. That just gives you a
idea of how much work you have to do,
because I think the pull-up
gives us another one of those
pulling exercises, this time pulling from the top
down, that will
significantly work all those muscles that
we're trying to emphasize. I'm not
saying you'll find yourself in a
life or death situation hanging off the
edge of a cliff, but imagine
if you were. Who would be able to
get up again to climb to the top
of the mountain? Only the person who knows
how to do a pull-up. And pull-up
is the ultimate measuring stick. It's not
easy, that doesn't mean it should be
forgotten. What would you do if you couldn't
do any? Simply use
assisted variations. I'm not
against putting a band on the
bar. Step on it, unload
about 60 or 70% of your body and
learn to gradually lift the weight
of your entire body against that bar. There
is nothing wrong with doing that. What
is wrong is skipping exercise altogether
and not trying to improve. There
will work all the muscles of your
arms, forearms, grip and back.
As we said, everything is connected. And if you
learn to pull in sync and get
those muscles to work together, it
becomes a really effective
dynamic exercise that will develop that
important pulling strength that I just
talked about. We all lose with every
decade that passes, so don't skip the
pull-up. Now we move on to number six,
but we still don't move on from those
pulling exercises because now I'm
going to introduce you to my third one and I'm talking
about the seated cable row. First
, when they do this variation
instead of a standing barbell row, I can
accommodate anyone who has
lower back pain or issues, because by
doing this variation I won't have to
deal with it or that low back weakness won't
become the limiting factor
to be able to do this paddle. The next
thing I can do is vary the position
of my elbow depending on what area of my
back I want to develop. If I want
more lats, I'm going to do this
close grip variation with
elbows close together. You can see that I'm literally
trying to stick them to my
sides and pull behind my body
to get those lats contracted by
complete. I have the versatility here if
I want to work the
rear delts a little more. This could be
one of the best
rear deltoid exercises you can do,
because you can increase the weights that
you would normally apply to your
exercises for this muscle. All I have to
do is simply let my
elbows open and come up and still try to
pull them behind my body into
shoulder extension. There are many
ways to row and many machines that
allow you to do so. This is my
favorite way and the one I will continue to
do for years. If you'll allow me to be
vain for a minute, one of these 10
exercises has to be something that
simply enjoys doing, but in
there is actually a very
specific variation of the exercise that I want
to do. We talked about coral and I'm talking
specifically about making corals with
bar from now until the end of
time. Why does he run?
Especially if we're talking about a
approach focused on longevity, something
you should be able to do forever. The
colcom bar requires some
wrist mobility, but it's not a mobility
that you shouldn't already have. And if you don't
have that wrist mobility,
you should find a way to
get it back, because we're not looking for anything that
is really excessive. This is the
anatomical position. You should be able to have
your hands completely supinated looking
upward. In this position, if
you find that you can't get your
flat and your wrist is bending
inward, the first thing I'll say is that you
may not be lacking mobility in your wrist,
you may be lacking mobility in your shoulder
because you're doing internal
rotation in your shoulders, which in
is actually internally rotating the
hands. If that's the case, you still need to
address that. In fact, I'll give you a video
at the end of this one that will allow you to do
exactly that. But we don't
want to settle for having to use a
Z-bar for the rest of our lives. That
is just an adaptation or
compensation and doesn't really address the
problem. The barbell croll gives me the
opportunity to develop my biceps,
but it does so in a way that still
maintains that neutral
wrist position that we should all strive
not to lose no matter what decade
we are in. And when we do that, we make
big profits and it's one you should never
leave out. You already worked the
biceps, now you want to work the
triceps, but this one actually has
some additional benefits for your
joint mobility that maybe the
corecom bar didn't have. We are talking about the
extension of the triceps to the side. You can
do exercises that only focus on
extending the elbow or you can do
exercises that extend the elbow, but
that also bring the arm over the
head, which gives you an additional
stretch of the triceps and
more effectively works that third head,
the largest, the long head. This
exercise does it, but it does something else.
Just by having to assume this
overhead position, you will get a good
latissimus dorsi stretch. And do you
know what one of the largest internal
rotators of the shoulder is? your lats and
people have tight lats due to
this chronic sitting posture
that we adapt all day. That will only
continue to make the situation worse. In fact
will make crolls with
bars more difficult. What we do is
use this exercise to establish a progressively
stretch
deep. You don't have to start with
great shoulder mobility, but as
you continue to do this exercise
over the years, you will improve
your shoulder mobility overhead and at the same time
apply that necessary
stimulus to the triceps that will allow you to get the
most out of this exercise
that anything else you could have
done. This isn't one of the most
popular at the gym, but hopefully
after this video it will become
much more popular. We're talking about the
cable pull between the legs. What
this exercise does is reinforce or
even teach what I said before in
this video when we talked about the
footplate, the very important
hip hinge. The hip hinge will be your
ticket to a pain-free lower back
for the rest of your life. Because if
you allow the glutes to drive
hip extension, your lower back
won't try to do it all the time and
will do the work that the glutes aren't
currently doing for you. This is a
great glute strengthener. The
rope itself is pulling you,
naturally at a hinge. For
those who aren't sure how
to do the hinge mechanics
correctly, don't worry.
Simply by moving far enough away from
the machine so that the rope pulls you
back, you have established the correct
hinge position. Just be sure to
keep your lower back slightly
arched. When you come out of the position,
the only thing you should think about is not
pulling with your hands, but
pushing forward with your
glutes. Some might say, "And isn't the
Roman deadlift doing the
same thing? I love that exercise. It
can be loaded pretty heavy, however
doesn't ensure that you are
doing correctly. I could
easily round my back and lower
the bar to the floor, causing a lot of pain
and stress in my lower back. I don't
have to think about it and because of that I'm going
to include the cable pull between the legs
for no other reason than because
it automates everything we should be
doing naturally.
This exercise is not included due to
some favoritism I have towards it for
being identified as
Jeff's exercise. I include it because it should also
be your and everyone's exercise. We're talking
about the face pull and the reason
I emphasize that it's so important is
because it will work so many muscles that
tend to get almost zero attention in
any training program,
even a full one. This
exercise will replace many of those
pink dumbbell exercises that many people
avoid because they are embarrassed to do them
in a gym or don't find them
rewarding enough or
important just because they are detracted
from the amount of weight they
require. And what I'm talking about
are those ts and Latin i's and
w's. All those letters of the alphabet
that we make with very light weights,
because the pull to the face will make it in a
more acceptable way. If people
saw them even at the gym, they wouldn't question
them, especially if they see
Ashlinex. What this will do is train
all of these muscles by pulling the
cables back and then adding
this extra lift at the top.
What the extra lift does is ensure
that we work the lower traps,
in addition to the middle traps,
rear deltoids, rhomboids, all
the important muscles that really
are not worked effectively when
do heavy paradorsal exercises or
the most popular versions of
back exercises that
are currently doing.
The face pull represents that
perfect combination of mobility and
strength and helps them feel not only
stronger, but also better for
many years to come. Speaking of mobility, if
you're looking for ways to maximize that
with a minimal investment of time for
a morning, it's in this video, folks.
I have a complete limited edition
program, it's the Muscle Beach method with
many of these exercises that we just
covered, techniques and strategies
used by some of the greats of the
era, from Benis Beach and Muscle Beach.
It's at atrenex.com/alespañol,
but only for a limited time, maybe
just days after
this video is published. Okay, friends, we'll talk
soon. Good luck.
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