Abby Brammell

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No.1 - Standing cable pull/push
This is one you don’t see in many gyms. The standing cable pull/push is the poster child of functional movement. Whether you’re walking or swinging a golf club, one arm typically moves in the opposite direction of the other. This exercise strengthens the upper back, biceps and posterior shoulder on one side, and the chest, triceps and anterior shoulder on the other, while teaching core stability and proper rotation through the upper spine. Admittedly, the standing cable pull/push is not a superior exercise to the deadlift; it wins the No. 1 title for its uniqueness. Despite common practice, if you only picked one or two exercises to help you build muscle and lose fat, you’d get the most bang for your buck with full-body exercises like the squat-to-press and deadlift, not upper-body exercises.

Kevin Neeld, CSCS is the Director of Athletic Development at Endeavor Fitness in Sewell, NJ. Through the application of functional anatomy, biomechanics, and neural control, Kevin specializes in guiding hockey players to optimal health and performance. To help hockey players and coaches develop their own off-ice programs, Kevin wrote Hockey Training University’s Off-Ice Performance Training Course, a must-have resource for every hockey program. For a free copy of Strong Hockey Core Training, one of the sessions from his course, go to www.KevinNeeld.com.
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