In this post:
- warm up your upper body with Indian clubs.
- dynamic range-of-motion for the shoulders with Indian clubs.
Author: Nick Ortego is the owner of N 2 Action, a wellness studio in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, offering personal training, health coaching, yoga, and assisted stretching.
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Video Transcript: Hey Nick Ortego here. I'm going to show you how to use these Indian clubs. These are just one pound Indian clubs to warm up your upper body. And it's mainly just a modification of a commonly performed warm-up drill where you cross your arms over. Sometimes people call these flyes. Technically it's a horizontal abduction/ adduction movement. As you can see, I'm just crossing the left over the right, then right over the left. Also you can add in a little bit of rotation, where my thumbs go in and then on the way out my thumbs turn out, so I'm getting some wrist rotation. I'm getting some shoulder rotation with it and if you add Indian clubs you can enhance the effect a little bit. There's a little bit more a little bit more momentum pulling you into a greater range of motion. Best way I've found to grab these Indian clubs is just have the pinky halfway onto the little knob on the end. And then this way rotate in, rotate out, rotate thumbs in, thumbs out, thumbs in, thumbs out, Crossing right over left, left over right, you can pick up your speed as you get more into the movement, as your body finds the groove and the smoothness of the motion. You can really pick up speed and let the movement of the Indian club pull you back into a greater dynamic PEC stretch back here. Give that a try. Hope it works for you. Found any benefit from this video, leave a comment below. If you'd like to get more content not available on the blog or the regular youtube channel, then click the link that's connected to this video you'll have a chance to sign up for the Run Better Now VIP club.
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