Rotating the Torso: Functional Fitness Routine
by Blaine Moore on Tuesday, December 6th, 2005 | 3 Comments
The Health and Fitness blog has a new animated demonstration, this time on working your core by rotating your torso. This can also be done by using a pulley if you want more resistance than a stretch band is likely to provide. A variation that I am a fan of wood chops, where you take a high pulley and do a similar motion that is in the animated image, but you are pulling your arms and torso from the right shoulder to your left quad, and then the left shoulder to your right quad.
If you want to up the resistance and don’t have a cable machine handy (don’t have one yet in the home gym), just pick up a weight plate -- or anything heavy -- and hold it in front of you. Also, doing this whilst kneeling instead of standing makes it a bit more challenging.
Good tip; I haven’t tried doing it that way. I’ll have to work that in at some point.
[...] I linked to an animated ab exercise and discussed an alternative. Scott from Straight to the Bar chimed in with a comment on how to do a similar exercise with just a weight plate. [...]