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This is Brent of the Brookbush Institute.
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Today I am excited because I got my eccentrics back. And I know you guys have
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no clue what I'm talking about yet, but we're going to go over a rope row. I see all
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this functional activity, I see all these new exercises,
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I see all this new equipment based on lifting things and throwing things,
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it's all great, but we can't forget about some of the basics.
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If we're going to pull something with the rope, we also have to be able to
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eccentrically control that same resistance. We can't forget that eccentrics
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have been linked to
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hypertrophy. They may be more important to muscle growth
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than the concentric phase of the movement. We can't forget that most
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injuries happen in the eccentric phase of a movement pattern, so we want to
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continue to train them.
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And there's even some research showing that eccentrics
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may be very effective for rehabbing tendinitis and tendinopathies,
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and that makes me think maybe that has something to do with an imbalance
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between concentrics
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and eccentrics in their daily life. So here I'm going to show you guys this
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this Hirts rope, H-I-R-T-S.
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The only reason I'm excited about it is because it has a carabiner at the end.
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This means
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I can attach it to a Stroops band, a really big, heavy resistance band,
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or I can attach it to a cable column. I am going to have my
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friend, Melissa, come out and she's going to help demonstrate this, and I think you guys
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will see real quick
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how this is going to be much more effective for long-term strength gains.
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She's going to set up just like she would for a normal rope
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row. Back up just a little bit, good. Make sure you're soft in the legs a little bit. I want
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you using your glutes and using your quads, so you got a little bit of resistance there.
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I got her posterior oblique subsystem engaged. I can cue her to draw in. And
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now one arm at a time, I'm going to have her row,
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and make sure she rows with perfect form. I don't want her twisting with their legs yet, I
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just want her using
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good scapular retraction and extension at the shoulder.
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And then here's the great part, once she gets to the end,
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now have to go- let back slow. This is the part that some of those other functional
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activities were missing.
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This is huge, there's a lot more strength to be gained this way.
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And, of course, I can play fun games. Okay, let's do it again. We can count how many reps
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happen per
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cycle here, and I think she gets like three reps per arm. Then I can go, "Do that 7
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and back." Good. Or we can play little games, like you guys can see there's
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little red tags on these, so I can have her
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go to the first one. Good, now back. Nice and slow. I want slow eccentrics.
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Now go to the second one, now real slow back.
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Good, now to the third one.
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Get how this is going to go? And then going to the fourth one,
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and then the fifth one. So, you guys can set up some really cool rep schemes. Some really
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cool resistance schemes, but like I said,
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look at these new functional activities. And like I've done with this exercise,
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let's see if we can bring the eccentric control back to the movement patterns.
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Hey, buddy. That's my dog, Dingo, guys. So
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now you've been introduced to the dog behind the camera.
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So, once again, guys, eccentric control.
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Think about- I'm going to bring all sorts of exercises to
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this video series showing how we modify this.
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You can progress just the same way and maybe do this on a single leg,
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or, of course, go way up in resistance if you want to