Level 3-4 - 8.10.22

59 MIN

PROPS NEEDED: 2 Toning Balls (or Hand Weights) + Blanket

Use your shoulder stuff for what it's worth. We start at the wall corner to keep our warm-up honest. We move all the parts that make up our shoulders while keeping our spines out of it. We move on using the wall space to train our wrists to tolerate load harmoniously and to maximize our capacity for movements at the elbow joint using an external load. The second half of the class feels more like a typical strength-training session as we play with reps and sets to build up our tolerance to stressors. We make good use of our often ignored pulling muscles in the posterior chain using the weight, use kinetic stretches for the lats and lateral shoulder stuff, and play with a progression for pushing and pulling with the cylindrical weight. Get some full-body moves in with this class like a downward dog to plank patterns, push-ups, flipping patterns that challenge single-arm loading in different positions,, and frog hops in different directions. We end with a delicious, dynamic cooldown that feels like the perfect finale to this challenging class.

Cautions: Knee loading, ankle loading, wrist loading