I did my “bad exercise” video this week but just wasn’t feeling it. Seemed too boring. Apologies. I’ll try again next week. I’ve also noticed a dramatic drop in my audience reach. Oh well. I decided to make this video showing 4 Military Press exercise variations. In each exercise I’m lifting 90 lbs. I just finished a full-upper drop-set circuit, so wasn’t trying to lift heavy for this vid. 🔹 One of these exercises is relatively easy. Another is quite challenging. Can you guess what order the exercises rank from easiest to hardest? 🔹 Although you can probably guess and rank them, do you understand why they are progressively harder, despite being the same weight? 🔹 The easiest exercise is the seated bar military press. Why? Well, for starters you’re sitting down. Your legs and core get a break. The weight is evenly distributed when using a bar. 🔹 Next up in rank (you see I ranked them already by the number) is the standing bar military press. Legs and core are now engaged. Weight is still evenly distributed. 🔹 Next I have the standing DB Military Press. Legs and core engaged. Now the weight is separated per arm. This exercise will reveal and remedy muscular imbalances. 🔹 Finally, the most challenging exercise is what I call an alternating engaging lift. This is more challenging as it requires more endurance and core. Lifting both DB at once maintains balanced tension in the body. But lifting the weights alternatively, places an extra challenge on the core, forces muscles on one side to remain contracted while the other side performs the lift. 🔹 This “alternating” lift can be done with cable exercise machines for a lat pull-down, a back row, or with using DBs in a chest press or bent row. If you can’t use the weight you planned, you can go down in weight and try the alternating engaging technique to challenge the muscles. 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 "We Forge Ourselves in the Fire of our Will” 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 #trainsmarter #takethequiz #whichisharder #iforgepro #properlifting #exercisevariations #exercisephysiologymajor #personaltrainer #avoidinginjuries #militarypress #fitnesstips (at Miami Beach, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B44-Zi-FCYa/?igshid=1jn6qeki41snl
