Rack Carry

The rack carry is deceptively hard because it places the weight very high on your body. This makes your core work extra hard to keep you balanced. The Rack Carry requires a solid rack. The kettlebell rack is active and you should feel like your forearm, bicep, shoulder, chest, and the bell are a solid piece. The muscle that will burn the most on a rack carry is your bicep.  So get your mind out of the gutter and squeeze that rack!

Coach Stevo's Top Tips

• Pull your shoulders down with your lats.
• Enange the lats.
• Keep the bells in the rack with constant pulling pressure.

Double Rack Carry

Single Rack Carry

Side Plank

The side plank is the straight plank's harder, oblique killing sister. 30 seconds a side is pretty good, but after a minute you should start trying to make it harder. Lift a leg, go up on your hand, or place a weight on your hip.

Coach Stevo's Top Tips

• Pack your shoulder.
• Make sure your hand or elbow is directly under your shoulder.
• No bend in your hips.

Plank

The plank is the most basic of core exercise and one that almost everyone ignores. The plank trains the core by doing what the core is supposed to do: hold you upright. Everyone should be able to do this for a minute, but if you can do a straight plank for more than 2 minutes, you should start making them harder. Watch the other videos for some ideas on ways to step this exercise up a notch.

Coach Stevo's Top Tips

• Butt down!
• Squeeze your butt cheeks together.
• Pack your shoulders.
• Did I mention keeping your butt down?

Plank

Long Plank

Weighted Plank

One-Leg Plank

Front Squat

The Front Squat is the introduction that I like to give most people to barbell squatting once the goblet squat has been mastered. It's important to remember that barbells are a little less forgiving and lot louder when you drop them. Start with the handsfree version shown below and do those for a few weeks. If you have the wrist flexibility, work up to the pictured form. If your arms start to droop, lower the weight. If your wrists hurt, lower the weight. If your form suffers at all, drop the weight. The video at the bottom is a very good tutorial about what "good" and "bad" front squatting looks like.

Coach Stevo's Top Tips

• The bar rests on your shoulders, not on your wrists.
• Your fingertips touch the bar, not your palms.
• Focus on keeping your torso as upright as possible.
• How far down? All the way down.

Hands Free

Good Form Breakdown

Body Saw

The step-child of the roll out, in this version you gently rock back and forth at the shoulder. You'll need a slideboard, valslides, or a towel on a hardwood floor. I prefer these on the TRX, as the motion is smoother, but it can be tricky to get your feet in the handles. 

Coach Stevo's Top Tips

• Pack your shoulders.
• Slow and smooth.

Slideboard

TRX (Pike is optional)