Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 1452: Your 10 Minute Workout for the Holiday Season

Episode Date: December 24, 2020

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin provide three effective workouts that can be completed in ten minutes. The true value of sending the RIGHT signals to your body to build muscle and burn fat. (3:31) Motion creates motion. (8:37) Three 10 Minute Workouts for the Holiday Season. (13:33) #1 – HIIT Workout. (16:25) Push Up. (17:00) Prone Cobra. (17:49) Back Step Lunge. (18:52) Plank. (19:34) The protocol for this workout. (20:25) #2 – Mobility Flow Workout. (23:18) Lizard with Rotation. (24:58) 90/90. (25:25) Handcuff with Rotation. (25:47) The protocol for this workout. (25:58) #3 – Skill Workout. (28:00) Turkish Get-Up. (29:49) Windmill. (32:15) Bear Crawl. (33:24) Practice the technique. (34:30) Related Links/Products Mentioned December Special: 3 MAPS Bundles for your level of fitness! Visit Four Sigmatic for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Code “mindpump” at checkout Mind Pump #1392: 10 Habits Of Super-Healthy People MAPS Fitness HIIT - Mind Pump Media The RIGHT Way To Do Push-Ups (PERFECT FORM) Correcting Upper Cross Syndrome to Improve Posture & Health-- Prone Cobra The ONLY Way You Should Be Doing Lunges! (Build GREAT Legs) How to do a PROPER Plank MAPS Prime Pro Webinar Squat Like a Pro!- 10 Primers to Improve Squat Form - Lizard with Rotation (Video 3 of 10) How to Perform a 90/90 Hip Stretch (HIP FLEXOR STRETCH) Prime Your Shoulders with Handcuffs with Rotatation on a Bench Stop Working Out And Start Practicing - Mind Pump Media How To Do A Turkish Get-Up Add Windmills to Your Workout to Increase Your Deadlift Strength How to Bear Crawl MAPS Fitness Prime - Mind Pump Media Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. You are listening to the number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pump. Alright, so in today's episode, we wanted to provide you some tools for the holidays. You know, one of the things that makes it so difficult to maintain your fitness in the holidays

is that things are busy, gyms are closed right now for a lot of people or you just don't wanna drive to the gym. And so a lot of people just don't work out, but what we said is, look, let's make some effective 10 minute workouts. Let's make some workouts that you only take 10 minutes that require no equipment that you could do anywhere

that will actually get your body to maintain its fitness and for some of you improve your fitness. So that's exactly what we did. So in today's episode, we give you three 10 minute workouts. One is a hit workout, that's high intensity interval training, great for calorie burn. The next one is a mobility-based workout. This is great to improve the movement

and mobility of your body. And then the third one is for skill. This is to get your whole body to communicate well, get you to practice, a complicated skill, and just make you feel awesome. So three free workouts all last 10 minutes in today's episode. Now this episode is sponsored by Four Sigma. This is one of our partners. We love them. They make some amazing supplements. All mushroom-based, some of them are for performance. Some of them help you sleep better. Others are for general health.

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speeding up the metabolism, burning body fat and improving your fitness. By the way, all of them come with a 30-day money back guarantee. And right now, we're including one year of free access to our private mind pump forum. This is a great place for support. So you can go on there, ask questions, you can post videos of your lifts to get critique.

There's also fun conversations, people share memes, and then of course your favorite fitness podcast hosts, myself, Adam and Justin are on there as well. You can find out more about all these workout bundles at mapsdiceember.com. That's the word maps, M-A-P-S, December.com. I want to put together like three very basic, simple,

10 to 15-minute type workouts that people can do during the holidays with little to no equipment. That's a great idea. And let's use our YouTube channel as far as a place. So obviously we're not writing a phone. I'm glad I came up with this. This was a brilliant idea of yours, Justin. But let's use our YouTube channel.

Let's pull from exercises that are there so people have a reference that they can use and follow along. Yeah, it's good because people are gonna wanna see the exercise to really do it properly. Yeah. And let's build some workouts, plans that are short and simple that people can do during these holidays.

Here's, you know, I'm glad you're doing this because the big challenge with the holidays, obviously, it's time, family, maybe you're always in a rush. You're in a rush and so you're like, okay, I don't have, now I'm gonna have to work out, therefore, forget it, I'm not gonna do it at all. And there's this misconception around workouts,

that the value of the workout is based on the calories burned during the workout. Now that's, sometimes that's part of the value, right? The fact that you're burning calories while you're working out, but that's not even close to the main value. The main value of a workout is the signal that it of the value, right? The fact that you're burning calories while you're working out. But that's not even close to the main value. The main value of a workout is the signal that it sends the body, the adaptation signal. And if you do a good workout, a good 10 minute

or 15 minute workout, you can still send a good signal to the body through doing it properly. But the programming's very important. The exercise is how they're done. And of course, what goal it's targeting, what adaptation it's targeting. I want to explain why that matters so much too, because it took me along, I was a trainer.

I've admitted that I didn't do this, right? I didn't do these 10 minute workouts or sometimes go to the gym just squat or just deadlift. That wasn't until way later in my, like 30 on. It seemed like a waste of time. That's how I felt. And one of the things that you, and it's for the reasons that Sal just brought up, like right, you could think 10 minutes, like 10 minutes, I'm, you know, barely, what do I burn, 100 calories or some time? Yeah, waste of time. All I have to do is have to, you know, to her shakisses and it's already,

you know, canceled out that workout. But your point or what I wanna expand on the sitting, sitting the signal, what exactly does that mean? And why is that so powerful and important? And it is, how'd you not done that workout? The body is not requiring any additional calories. It just needs its maintenance calories. But if you train and you send a signal to build muscle from your lift, whether'd be squatting or

Turkish get ups or whatever exercise you decide to do, it's at least sending a signal to adapt, grow and change. And that signal requires calories in order to support that signal. And so that's where this true value is. Forget the 100 calories that you burn from. And there's some value to that. Don't get me wrong. Like getting your heart rate up for a little bit and then the time it comes down to get back to normal,

you're gonna burn some additional calories all day long. Right, so your studies that support just doing a 10 minute, 15 minute intense workout like that, you will burn more calories all day long, a little bit more than what you would, plus the calories you burn during the workout. But I think the most value is what you alluded to, which is you've now sent this signal that your body needs to build muscle.

And so if I end up, because it's Christmas time, I end up eating a little bit more calories, at least I can feel good about some of those calories being partitioned over to building muscle overs as just being stored as fat. Right. And that's just from a body fat percentage standpoint. You're still, the other side is that you're improving your fitness. You are improving.

If you do a, and if, first off, being active for 10 minutes is better for you than not being active for 10 minutes. So that's a fact, right? So doing nothing versus doing something, doing something, so long as you don't hurt yourself or do something that's totally inappropriate for your body or fitness level, it's better than doing nothing.

So there's that. But then we can take it to a whole other level, which is the right kind of exercise programming based off of my goal, the right exercises, the rest periods, all that stuff. If I do it right, now I'm making that 10 minute workout or 15 minute workout actually valuable, actually truly valuable.

You can actually get your body to change or at the very least, here's a deal. If you're listening and you're consistent, usually with your workouts and you work out traditionally, you spend 45 minutes to an hour and a half doing a normal workout and now you're super busy, at the very least, these 10 to 15 minute workouts will maintain your fitness because if you don't do it,

cause here's a deal, your body's always adapting. Either it's adapting towards fitness or away from fitness. So if you do nothing, you're adapting in the opposite direction. You're still getting that stimulus, which is super valuable, because then they're gonna be more responsive

when you go back to your regular routine as well. So it's like, you know, a lot of times after the holidays, if it's not a consideration even or you just miss a couple of weeks, like, you know that initial bit of getting that same kind of momentum and that came same kind of response from your body is pretty difficult. So this helps you kind of transition a lot smoother. I'm going to add to that too.

And I don't know if they're in Salomon, let me know if you know this. Like if there's any really good studies to support this But this is just definitely something that I've pieced together over years of training myself and clients Is even just doing that 10 minute workout how it changes your behaviors for the rest of the day? Totally, I mean if I if I'm feeling lazy and tired and I'm like, oh, I don't really feel like I don't have time to go Do it how or work out and do it so effort, I'm just gonna sit around and watch TV. Then I feel lethargic, I don't move around, I'm slower to get up all day long. Just getting in and getting that 10, 15 minute lift, if I just go squat or Turkish get up or go do something or a little circuit, whatever, I notice that the rest of the day, I'm more

active. I'm more willing to help Katrina around the house. I tend to knock out some of the chores that I may have to do. I don't find myself sitting and feeling so lazy. So there are lots of other benefits that are really tough for us to measure. You know, because I know we always do things in these controlled studies. Just build more muscle or burn more fat. We're always talking about that. But the behavioral change of just going and getting active, getting that blood pumping, getting that heart rate up,

getting a little bit of that sweat, and getting that activity in the day, how that starts to bleed into the rest of the day. When you feel better, you, I mean, a lot of times you make better decisions. That's just how it goes. Like you're active, you're energetic, you know, yeah, you're more willing to be up

and be lively and make better decisions for yourself. Yeah, yeah, you're more willing to be up and be lively and make better decisions for yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, movement, even as little as 10 minutes of the right kind of movement, increases the release of BDNF. This is a, it's like miracle grow for the brain, so it's good for the brain. It increases the production of cataclysmines, epinephrine, nor epinephrine. These are these energy chemicals that make you feel kind of energized. This is why if you feel tired and unmotivated,

one of the best things you could do is get up and move, and then all of a sudden you notice a jolt of natural energy. Increases dopamine. So after doing, like Adam said, these 10 minute workouts, you might find yourself more motivated to do other things around the house. And then behavioral wise, like what Justin's talking about.

If you think about the times in your life when you've made the worst eating choices, and I don't necessarily even mean just the food you're choosing, but the way you're eating the food, when you overeat or when you eat because you're distracted or whatever, a lot of times it's associated with bad feelings. I'm tired, I'm sad, I'm, you know, whatever.

Now I'm gonna eat more. Rest out., I'm sad, I'm, you know, whatever. Now I'm going to eat more. Rest out. Because I'm meditating with food. But if you already feel good from good activity, you're in a different state of mind. And a good state of mind, here's a deal. And this is a fact now, a good state of mind, you're more likely in that state of mind to make better decisions for yourself. And a bad state of mind, you're more likely to make bad decisions for yourself. So this little bit of activity done structured properly will also likely, like what Adam was saying, lead to better decisions when you go to the, when you have your Christmas dinner or now you're off work for a few days, you're less likely to snack or you're less likely to

be lazy, it will probably encourage you to be even more active later on. I know when I do these types of 10-minute workouts, I find myself more likely to do a walk after a meal or a walk before bed. So it's like motion creates motion. I used to tell this to my staff all the time. The more you move, the more you tend to want to move so long as it's done appropriately. So there's lots of value in what we're about to talk about. It's not, you know, oh, that's not a big deal because it's 10 minutes. No, no, if you do it right, it only takes 10 minutes, but if you do it right, you are going to see some benefits and it's tremendously better than doing nothing at all.

Well, this was something that took a really long time for me to figure out. And what I like about is, you know, we're no different than the average person. Like we ebb and flow with our diet and workout consistency. It's not like it's, I mean, maybe Sal was like religious and never ever misses a workout. But the rest of us, I feel like ebb and flow

with our consistency and how dedicated and hard we're training. And one of the things that helps me not completely atrophy and feel like I go all the way back to square one is stuff like this is is is having that conversation in my head and you're on. Yeah, I don't have the time or all the excuses that fly around or I'm tired, I don't feel like it. Okay, bare minimum, at least going to go this. And at least going and doing those things

makes a huge difference, especially if it's that or nothing. You know, so that or nothing is an idea. Of course, we talk about lifting weights two to three times a week for a good solid hour and full body routine. Yeah, that's a perfect world, but the reality is we don't all live in that. And we have things that come up and we have vacationsations, and we have this stuff, and we have family in town, but it's not that hard to get away for 10 or 15 minutes to squeeze out of that. Right, so we need to paint the context, right? So the

context is, I don't have a lot of time, and I'm not going to be at a gym, right? So not a lot of time, so we want to do this in a 10 to 15 minute period, and because I'm not going to the gym, because you're probably not going to drive to the gym for just a 10 to 15 minute period. And because I'm not going to the gym, because you're probably not gonna drive to the gym for just a 10 minute workout, then let's do this, like Adam said, without any exercise equipment. Also, we need to also look at what we can accomplish in 10 minutes, like so in other words,

am I gonna do a full body strength building routine in 10 minutes, probably not? But there are other things that can do in 10 minutes that are gonna make a 10 minute workout valuable. And there's really three things that I can think of that you can accomplish with a 10 minute workout. The first one would be, and this is an obvious one, is a high intensity interval type of workout.

In fact, high intensity interval training workouts are supposed to last about 10 to 15 minutes. So that's supposed to be- Yeah, I mean, this is where they shine, right? And again, it's great to make sure you have the prerequisites where you have the type of stability and the joints really pull this off, but also, I mean, you could scale this back so it's like really in a controlled type of movement. But I mean, that's really the only concern with these hit-styled workouts, but they're

really massively effective. Well, this is also why we wrote multiple, right? So it's not just that, so if hit isn't for you, we'll get to the next one. Right. So the three that we'll cover that I think you can do well in 10 minutes are your high intensity interval training, great calorie burn, it's intense. You're going to burn more calories in 10 minutes than you will if you did other exercise or the workouts, I should say then there's mobility mobility in a 10 minute period can be quite effective

You can really improve your mobility in a short period of time Done properly and that has its own value and we'll get into who these are best for or whatever and then skill Can you practice a full-body skill in 10 minutes and accomplish great adaptations in terms of the way your body is moving, the way your muscles are communicating, and as a result of that, improving your strength. So those are the three areas that you can effectively train in a 10 to 15 minute period, and we'll put it together so that you require no equipment. Every exercise we go over today, you are gonna find a link in our show notes that's mindpumppodcast.com to a video

where we can teach you the exercise. So if you're not familiar with what we're talking about, if I say an exercise, you're like, I don't know what that looks like, or we just wanna make sure that you're doing it right, you can go to mindpumppodcast.com, click on this episode, go to the video, and watch the exercise.

And this is something that we did to where you guys don't have to, you know, you don't need an equipment, but that doesn't mean that if you do have a barbell or dumbbell, it doesn't mean you can't interchange some of the things that we're talking about. We wanted to make it to where everybody can do these, but if you have access in your house or you have an at home gym, you can interchange some of these exercises for barbell or dumbbell movement. Right, right. So the first workout that we put together is hit. So I said that earlier.

So high and it hits dance for high intensity interval training. The goal with hit is to maximize fat burn and to maintain muscle or maybe even build a little bit of strength. The problem with intense cardio workouts tend to be that they burn calories, but they also tend to tell the body to pair muscle down. Hit done properly doesn't do that. You burn a lot of calories, but you don't get your body to lose muscle. And in some cases, you actually strengthen or build a little bit of muscle. The first exercise is a

very basic one. It's a great one. You're all probably familiar with it. And it's great for working all the pushing muscles of the upper body, but it's also indirectly a good core exercise. And that's a push up. Push ups are excellent at working the upper body. They require core stability. And there's variations on how you can do a push up. So those of you that find traditional push ups on your feet challenging, you can do them

off your knees. Those of you that are really. You can do them off your knees. Those of you that are really strong and can do lots of pushups, you can put your feet up on a chair, on a couch, do them elevated, and that'll increase the intensity of that exercise. So the video that we're linking to this is the pushup with hand release that I teach.

And I also teach the variation on your knees here. So if you're looking for the variations of these, that's in that video. And that's the first one. Now the second one that we can do that I think is a really, I think it's one of those underrated movements. Totally. That you don't see people doing often, but as trainers, we use a lot. And that's the prone cobra. And the prone cobra, beside the fact that we're addressing the posterior chain, the backside, right, is great for posture. And when we talk, we talk a lot on the show about people having rounded shoulders and forward head.

And so doing a movement and an exercise to address that, and what a great time to do this, because sometimes doing movements like this, people when they're in their full hour workout, they wanna do all the big, compound lifts, understandably. And so this exercise sometimes gets neglected. Here's a great time to put it into your routine. You don't need any weights to do it.

We have a video to show you how to go through that. Oh, I love prone cobra. You feel it all the way up and down, you're the backside of your body. There's rotation involved with the arms. It's great for like Adam said, for posture. This is one of those exercises that feels good and it feels all the way down Your back even to your lower back even right and it requires no equipment whatsoever

The third exercise is a phenomenal one for the lower body and there's variations of this But the one that we chose because we think most people this may be the best variation of it is a back step lunge When you're standing with your feet together you you take a step back into the lunge and you step forward again, that forward step involves the glutes and the posterior chain a little bit more. Yeah, and what I like about this too, in terms of even if you're a beginner

at a back step lunge, like what I notice a lot of times too, sometimes that forward momentum will carry that knee a little bit too far and travel and put some pressure there in the knee that's unnecessary. And so, you know, stepping backwards, you really feel the difference and are in a better postural position and can activate glutes and posterior chain a little bit more. Right. Now the fourth movement, a great core stability movement.

This is great for the core. A lot of people do this wrong. I highly suggest you watch the video that we've attached to the show notes to this. And that's a plank. Most people do a plank and really work their hip flexors quite a bit. If you do a plank properly, you will hit your core very effectively. So watch the video.

There's more of a tailbone tuck and a proper plank than there is with the butt sticking out. And the idea, this is where we're shooting for like 10 to 15 minutes, right? So there's kind of this gray area because we expect that different people will have to rest a little bit longer between each round.

So we just went through all the exercises. If we were to actually program sets reps, rest periods, it would look like this. So you would do 10 of the pushups, you would do 10 of the prone cobras. When you do the prone cobras, what the reps look like is you pull back, you squeeze, and you hold for like five seconds, right?

And then you go back. Hold the top, yeah. Hold the top, you squeeze the upper back, the thumbs are up in the air, the video will demonstrate it, but you hold that for five seconds, you do 10 reps, and then we go into the back step lunge. The back step lunge, we do 15 on each side,

you're just alternating back and forth for, you know, 30 in a row. So 15 one side, 15 the other alternating back and forth. And then the last one is the plank. And that would be a 30 second to one minute hold depending on your experience level, right? If you're somebody who has got a very strong core, you can probably hold for a minute. If you're somebody, this is your new to this, then we would do 30 seconds. And then after that, this is where you rest. So you go through that, let's all one after another.

So one after another. So one after another. One after another. One after another. And then once you get through around, that's where you rest. So you should get your heart rate going pretty good from doing those four exercises back to back to back to back and then you stop, then you rest.

And the recommendation, right? So there's a lot of stuff out there that tells you like the hit protocol. But as a trainer, the way you would coach it was, we would pay attention to their breathing patterns, right? So and your level and their form. Yeah, then their form, right? So if your form is breaking down and you're huffing and puffing, you know, I'm going to

give you a longer rest period. I want your heart rate to come almost all the way back to normal resting, almost, and then go back. So I want you to be able to completely gather yourself, and that may look like a one-minute rest for some people. It may look like a two to three-minute rest for some people. That's what you have to decide, and then you go back into it and you do three rounds and you do oh Yeah, and you do three rounds so I could take you ten minutes

I could take you maybe fifteen minutes But now why rest right someone might be like well, why don't I just keep going through the reason why you rest after the round is because if You're pushing so hard that you're breathing like crazy and you're your form is gone and now you're breathing like crazy and your form is gone. And now you push up your prone cobra, your lunges, your planks. It gets locked. It doesn't matter that you're doing those exercises. You might as well just jump in place. That's right, now it's just cardio.

It's just cardio. So it's important to rest at the end, catch your breath, wait for your heart rate to come down, then do it again because you want your form to be good. If the form goes bad, then the programming or the exercises don't even matter anymore. And there's a lot of ways too. I mean, we're giving obviously a generic layout for most people.

For most people, this will be pretty challenging. But if you're really advanced, it doesn't mean you can't take the pushups, the prone cobras, the lunges to higher reps or holding on to weight or slowing down the tempo. There's lots of ways for you to increase the intensity if needed. Most people, this will be a great workout the way it is, but some of you if you're listening your advanced and you still want to take advantage of this,

then slow down the tempo or add weight or add reps to increase the intensity. Right, now the next workout is a mobility-based one. It's a mobility flow. Now mobility, the goal with mobility, of course you're moving, so you're still kind of burning some calories, but really the goal with mobility is to get your body to feel better, to move better.

If you're feeling kind of stiff, kind of tired a little bit and you're like, I gotta do some movement, you probably, maybe not do hit, right? You probably shouldn't do a high intensity interval training workout, but a mobility workout would be phenomenal. You go through a mobility drill, and at the end of it, you're not gonna be huffing and puffing and dying.

You're just gonna feel really good, really mobile, loose and connected is how you should feel after doing that. Yeah, and if you're doing it right, I mean, it's gonna be challenging. It's gonna be intense. Like, people don't realize that when you're actively squeezing and adding tension into the muscle and working through these positions, It's gonna be intense. People don't realize that when you're actively squeezing and adding tension into the muscle

and working through these positions, what kind of workout that really is, like you're gonna be sweating through this. If you've done what any of our webinars before, people are always surprised at how intense some of these positions can be. Oh yeah, you see me and you're alluding to the webinar that I did with the 90, 90 and all those moves like by the second or third exercise

I'm sweating yes, because you're the ideal of this is that you're you're Intensifying the end ranges of motion on all these moves right you're connecting you're connecting You're trying to tense up your body, but it's a different type of intensity than hit right hit your move in and you're sweat This is intensity that you control with your connection. And again, at the end of this, you're gonna feel connected to your body and loose. And if you have any aches and pains and stiffness, you'll find that it'll disappear

after one of these 10 minute mobility flows. So the first movement is one of my favorites. It's great for the rotation aspect of the spine. There's some shoulder mobility in this, there's even a little bit of hip mobility involved in this movement, and that's lizard with rotation. And what you'll find, by the way, when you do some of these movements is you'll find that you get better

and better with them as you continue through the workout. So you start with lizard with rotation. From there, you move to 90, 90. This is when you're on the floor. One leg is in front of you. One leg is in back. You're working on what's called internal and external rotation of the hips. In other words, for layman's terms, one leg is twisting one way. The other leg is twisting the other way. So you're working your hips through a nice range of motion. It also works on your posture because a proper 90 90. You're encouraged to sit up really, really tall. And then from there, you move to a movement called

hand cuffs with rotation, which is shoulders and upper back. This is phenomenal for upper back, tightness, neck tightness, and shoulder tightness. Now what the protocol looks like for this as far as reps and sets and how I lay this out is, is the lizard with rotation. We're gonna rotate on one side 10 times. We're going to rotate on one side 10 times. We're going to rotate on the other side 10 times.

The 90 90, you're going to do five reps on each side. When you do your five reps, you lean into the stretch and then you intensify for five seconds similar to the movement we talked about earlier in the last circuit where you get to that point like in the prone cobra and you hold and you intensify for five seconds, same concept of the 90 90. So it's only five and five on each side, but the five you do, it's a five second hold

in that stretch position where you intensify. And I go through this in the video that's linked to this. So five and five on each side, and then the handcuff rotation, same thing five times. So five full rotations equals one full round, and that's what one round looks like. And then you're going to repeat that. And really take your time going through these videos and paying attention to the coaching cues. Like this workout in itself is at the utmost important to listen to those cues

because just like these little nuanced positions angle wise make a massive difference in terms of you know you maximizing the benefit of these stretches. Right. Now when we say intensify so and you watch the videos you know little kind of makes sense but if you're listening you're like what do you mean by intensify. All right do this right now you're listening to podcasts reach your arm up above your head like just stick your hand up above your head okay so now you've got your arm up above your head.

Now what I want you to do is press your arm up as high head, like just stick your hand up above your head. Okay, so now you've got your arm up above your head. Now what I want you to do is press your arm up as high as you possibly can above your head. Keep reaching and keep reaching as tall as you possibly can. What you've done is you've intensified that position. You've connected to it. You're not just reaching, you know, we arm up, you're actually reaching and trying to stretch it and get it up as high as you possibly can.

That's what we mean by intensified. So when you get in these positions, you don't just get in the position, you get in the position and you get into the position. You make it more intense, you connect, you tense up the muscles, and you make the form even better through intrinsic connection,

meaning you yourself are making the exercise more challenging. Now, the third workout is a skill-based one. Now, what does that mean, skill? Well, that means we're trying to get your body just to connect the whole body to connect. We're working all your muscles through full range of motion with exercises that will target the entire body. Similar to mobility, but different

because there's a strengthening component with the skill workout. Well I like this so much because I feel like this is overshadowed so much because I feel like this is overshadowed so much in people's programming because you don't really know where to put this all the time in your workouts. And what a great opportunity to just spend time on seeing how well your body can communicate and how well

you can work on your coordination and moving your body from your lower half to your upper half and having control and being able to brace. And this has massive carryover into your regular lifts. Now we've chose some unconventional lifts for this, right, or movements for this. But this most closely resembles the way I train when I only have 10 or 15 minutes.

Like so. You just go practice a movement. Exactly. I pick a big movement go practice a movement. Exactly. I pick a big movement, you know, that I can get better. I mean, there's plenty of them. There's plenty of exercises that I don't have perfect form, and that are big calorie burns, big muscle builders, that I can go there for 10, 15 minutes in the gym,

and I will just do that. But the ones we chose, we obviously chose for our reason, and I think they address a lot of areas that people need to work on, and they don't require any weight, right? But this, again, doesn't mean that you can't replace this with squatting or deadlifting if you have access to it. This is where I like to just come in the gym,

15 minutes, and all I'm doing is practicing my squat form or deadlift form, but these are skill exercises that I think a lot of people should be doing more of. And the first one that I love to have clients to do when we're doing something like this is the Turkish get up. I just think that getting up off the floor, moving up all the way through the entire movement, there's no weight on this.

What you're gonna be doing is holding your palm up as if you're holding a pizza and the goal is to not drop the pizza. And you go through the entire Turkish get-up from floor to standing, you are working your entire body. And I'm gonna add one more thing to the skill workout. If I'm being honest, the one workout out of these three that most people should probably choose most often

is the skill one. I'm not lying. Second would be mobility. And I know most people are gonna pick it. Yeah. Because it's gonna be a gallery burn. But would be mobility. And I know most people are gonna pick it because it won't be a gallery burn. But to be honest with you, if you do this workout,

10 minutes every single day over the holidays, the one you should probably spend the most time in would be the skill one. And Turkish get up is just, it does everything. It really does do everything. Yeah, it nails like so many different parts of movement. And I think that movement in itself, you wanna be able to see what your training

has been providing you in terms of strength, but also how to utilize that strength. And so this is a way to then connect a lot of parts together. So it's not just segmented out all the time and you're isolating specific muscles. And each one of these movements have a rotational component to it. And so the emphasis is put on form and technique.

You don't need any weight for it, but the idea is to make the exercise look perfect. Thank you. Take your time on the movement and really break it down, go slow, control, and every time you return to it, try and improve upon the way you move. Don't think of it as like, oh, I'm not carrying any weight, I can do this as easy, I should have more weight.

Look at it as like the whole purpose of us doing this is improve the movement. When I come in and I do this on a day when it's squatting or deadlifting, and it's just a skilled, what we call a skill day, I'm not loading the bar with nowhere near my max load. In fact, it's probably less than 50% the load because the idea is that it's all about

the practice of the skill, the movement. I know if I load the bar, I'm more likely to break down as I fatigue. The same thing goes for these exercises. These are very technical movements, very nuanced, and so really take your time and perfect the movement, don't worry about it not being loaded. Yes, you can load it if you're advanced, but the idea of skill days is to really practice how it looks.

Right, the next movement is the windmill. This is great for your back, for your hips, for your shoulders. In fact, if you are sitting down a lot and you start to find you get a little tight, the windmill is like one of the best remedies for that. I mean, you get up and you do some windmills and you totally alleviate all the tightness you get for yourself.

Well, and also like a common injury that I see all the time is to the QL and that happens as a result of shifting one side or the other with load. And you know, you can prevent a lot of these types of injuries by really reinforcing that thoracic rotation and being able to have strength and be able to navigate through that. And what a great exercise to really address that. A lot of people don't realize how little rotation

they can actually do, you know, with their thoracic response. Oh, totally. Now the QL muscle, quadratus lumborum. This is a muscle in the lower back towards the side. If you ever get tightness in your lower back and it feels like it's kind of on one side, so it's like my low back is tight and it's tight maybe on the right side a little bit.

That might be the QL. So the windmill tends to solve that tightness issue for a lot of people. Now the third skill movement is a killer core exercise, but it's great for working the entire body, and it's a bare crawl. Again, you can watch the video I've had to do this properly, but when you're doing a bare crawl properly, the idea is to maintain neutral spine, keep your body from twisting too much,

and you're moving forward, keeping your body totally connected. And again, because this is a skill workout, your goal is to go through each of these and just get perfect form. Just to make it perfect. I don't know about you guys, but a lot of my clients have never been just in beast position.

So you start in beast position where, basically you're on your hands, and your balls of your feet, yeah, in your knees are bent, but just holding that, sustaining that position is really difficult. And, and to start there, and now be able to progressively walk and get that cross sectional firing, it's, it, it prevents, or it promotes a lot of great movement. Are those original videos still in the prime with Dr. Brink when we did that?

Hmm. Are they still a question? They are. Yeah. That's still in there, right? Yeah. I remember the first time that he did that to me and just broke me down completely. Oh, totally. Just sitting in that position. Now with the skill workout, it's a little bit less prescriptive. The idea is to do perfect form and practice the technique.

And so I'll say if you do all three of these movements and your skill workout, you could spend two minutes to three minutes on each exercise, then move to the next one, perfect that one, and so on. If one of them feels better to you than the others, you can spend more time in that particular. One of those could end up being the entire workout. You could easily spend 10, 15 minutes

just doing Turkish get up. Three or four rounds of some Turkish get up, slow, controlled, easy, we'll take up that time. So feel free to pick one of these, especially if you are not good at it and you're trying to practice it. That's what I would do. Great advice. Okay, so there you have it. You have your hit workout, your mobility workout, and your skill workout. Each one of them will take you 10 to 15 minutes. If you want to see

the exercise demos, all of them have videos. Go to mindpumppodcast.com, look at the show notes, and we've linked up the YouTube videos with demonstrations of the exercise and explanations. So you can all do them properly. They require no equipment. They're very, very short. Do these, maintain your fitness throughout the entire holiday. Look, MindPump is recorded on videos

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