Posterior Pump up!

Chaddy
Sep 22, 2017
2 min read

I am currently in the middle of moving house. Arghh! Just a little stressful. So finding time for my training is sometimes taking second place to lifting and unpacking boxes.

While my partner sees the experience as cathartic, you know, going through all your stuff, see what you can cull. (Hang on, a lot of the stuff we're getting rid of seems to be mine. In fairness, I could be a closet hoarder!), I am feeling a little nostalgic as I go through my stuff.

Ok, good sharing, thanks Chaddy. What's the purpose of this post? Great question friend. Routine! My routine has been completely thrown out of whack of late. My morning routine, my movement routine and my eating routines have all been thrown in the air, and I am picking the bits of them back up as I get to them. Humans tend to be creatures of habit and as a coach, I know I have asked my clients to create a structure for themselves to create routines, that they like, enabling them to reach their wants. So, I am trying to fall back on little habits for myself in my current chaos!

One of my favourites is putting two moves together and cycling through them. It gets me and keeps me moving. I can choose the moves to suit the intensity I want to work at for that day, and I usually keep the duration of sets relatively short, so I don't start thinking about external stressors. I can stay focused on my movements. That leads me to the title of this little blog. Probably I should've gone more with the routine vibe, but, I choose the title ‘Posterior Pump Up' as the two moves I put together recently did exactly that!

The first move was the TRX Overhead Squat and the second was the TRX Low Row. No rest between each move. At a good, slow tempo I performed around two of each in the time frame, I had allotted myself and repeated for 10 minutes. By the end of it, I was feeling very pumped up in the posterior tissues of my body.

Try these moves together. Remember, slow and controlled for each rep. Focus on your body position every millimetre of each movement. I'm not sure if anyone has patented this saying yet, but if they haven't I will:

"Don't waste a rep."

Chaddy

TRX Overhead Squat