PNF Carry Away

PNF Carry Away is a unique bodyweight exercise program designed to help you build strength and reduce stress. The program is focused on bracing and core activation (PNF stands for Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation), and consists of a set of exercises designed to be done with no equipment and easily in a home environment. It combines elements of physical therapy exercises with weightlifting movements and yoga flows to strengthen muscles in the trunk, shoulders, and legs and alleviate tension in

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This is Brent, President of B2C Fitness and we're talking about shoulder resistance
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training progressions. Now the second exercise in our relative flexibility
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progression is the PNF carry away. I'm going to have Salvina come out and help me
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demonstrate this exercise. Now, you'll notice that I have a band situated at a
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lower angle, so we're going to create a diagonal force. This exercise is a little
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more complicated than the scaption exercise we were doing progressions of
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earlier, so you might have to go through a little bit more detailed teaching. So I
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want to tell her what I'm going to do, "We're going to do a PNF carry away," we're going to show, so it's going to look
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like this, and then you may have to lead her through the movement or lead them
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through the movement. So, that exercise is going to be from here, to here.
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Once they feel like they have the hang of it, we go ahead and let them move through the movement.
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Once again, the PNF carry away, just to kind of describe the movement pattern
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here, it's not just abduction, but it's abduction and external rotation, similar
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to unsheithing a sword, if you've ever seen an old pirate movie. Now, the reason
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this movement is the second movement in our relative flexibility progression, is it
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does require more flexibility, more stability, than the scaption exercise we
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talked about before. So somebody with a small amount of movement dysfunction will be
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able to perform this exercise, but if they still have a whole lot of upper
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body dysfunction, you still have a lot of restriction and work through, they're not
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going to be able to perform this exercise without compensation. This exercise
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requires a little bit more glenohumeral external rotation, as well as scapular downward
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rotation retracttion. There is a benefit to those with a mild amount of movement
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dysfunction, so we're progressing here, that we strengthen the external rotators.
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Now, as we're using this for a strength exercise, we do need to progress it. Our
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progressions for stability are going to be lower body centric because we're
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already at a unilateral PNF carry away here. This exercise doesn't work out
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very well to try to do both arms at once. So Salvina is going to go from a
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single arm PNF carry away, to a single arm, single leg PNF carry away.
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Perfect.
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Of course, for our more advanced individuals, we could also go two legs
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unstable, such as putting them on an Airex pad or BOSU and then one leg unstable.