So as we're ready to say goodbye to another month of 2018 you might have noticed in Instagram
and on Facebook, maybe on YouTube and some blogs that our DVRT community, especially
our Master Instructors, have been putting together this thing called February Flow,
Flow February - there's a little hashtag to it, pretty unique.
And the reason we wanted to do this - well because it started with an "F" ... flow, February
it just only makes sense, right?!
But there are so many unique things that The Ultimate Sandbag offers in training and to
use those flow movements - and to step back a little bit, those flows - what are "flows"
by the way?
Flows are when you combine movements - you can do as little as two movements and as many
as whatever you can do to make it logical - that's going to be the key sense of these
flows.
So moving from one movement to the other, fluidly using The Ultimate Sandbag.
You can also use other implements, you can definitely use kettlebells, you can use your
own bodyweight.
Probably not going to be very successful with a barbell especially in a large group setting
- think about it, logistics, it's not going to work.
But the uniqueness that The Ultimate Sandbag offers you when we're transitioning from one
position to the other, the instability of The Ultimate Sandbag moving in one direction,
but our Ultimate Sandbag is pulling us in another so it's creating force, but then it's
also resisting force at the same time and it's such a smart way to train because that's
how life is.
Being able to move and resist the manipulation of The Ultimate Sandbag as we go through it's
so pretty!
That's what it is, especially when you do it right, and when you do it smart!
It's not a circus act, we want to create these flows so everybody can do them!
I do get a lot of questions at Fitness Lying Down and other places that these people that
see these flows I post, 'How do you fit this in your programming and how do you come up
with the flows, what are you looking for when you make these flow movements happen?'
Number one, programming.
You can make this the absolute first movement of your program, making sure you have the
neurological components all ready to go so you're not zapped out, but then that's the
opportunity to increase your weight with The Ultimate Sandbag - not to use it light - but
to spend some good quality movement lifting heavy things.
You can also put it on in the tail end of your program.
You can use it as one of those finishers, like we like to call it, where we combine
a few things and give you a little more bang for your buck!
Of course, you're going to have to watch out though when you do put it in at the end of
your workout program because most of your clients, or yourself, you've been pretty zapped
- neurologically your system is almost drained - you just don't have what you had in the
beginning of the session, you can't offer that quality - so that's the opportunity where
you go just a little bit lighter and you get just a little bit more kick in the pants,
let's just call it that!
What am I personally looking for when I designing one of my flows?
I like to think of the many movements we have our disposal.
What do we have?
We have pushing, we have pulling, we have hip hinging, we have knee-dominant, like a
squat or a lunge, we have rotation, we have anti-rotation, we have locomotion so we're
moving - a lot of things to think about.
Put together those movements and you think about how they flow together.
But the first thing you have to do is to master those movements.
So if you're really good at the power clean and you're good at the squat, well why not?
Just get us an Ultimate Sandbag, power clean into the front loaded position, bang out a
couple of squats.
That's a flow movement; and that's a tough one, too!
Making those subtle changes to so if instead of increasing your load on your Ultimate Sandbag,
you can do something as subtle as taking it into an offset grip or maybe even a staggered
stance - that's going to increase your intensity just that much.
It's pretty amazing how you can make these flow movements happen.
So if you know peanut butter and if you know jelly, what's the problem with putting them
together and making a little bit of a sandwich for a little extra flavor in your session?
I'm really excited for March - until next time!
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