Dr. Andy Galpin

And I stand horizontal to that.

And so you can imagine the machine is to my right and I'm facing a different direction, my head is away from it.

And then I'll rotate my upper body, reach to grab the cable, and then rotate my upper body and pull the cable and the rope in front of my body all the way to the other side.

If you're watching this video, you can see me kind of moving that way.

My lower body does not rotate.

So my feet stay forward, my feet stay wide, and I just pull straight in front of me from the right side to the left side.

And then eccentrically, I slowly let it go backwards.

I have no idea why, but this feels phenomenal for me.

My obliques light up, my back feels great, core is all over, I just feel awesome.

I don't know if you'll like that exercise as much as I do, but I don't know any research behind that.

I just think it's a great exercise.

So there's tons and tons and tons of creative ways to go about these things.

I don't want you overly fixated on the exercise choice.

What I want you to think about is which movement pattern am I going after?

Flexion, extension, rotation, so forth, anti or movement-based.

And then finding any number of exercises that fit that pattern and experimenting.

Find the one that you like, where you feel the great contraction, because it's impossible for me to predict and tell you which ones you'll like.

For example, the one I just gave you.

Some of you might hate that.

Be like, I don't feel this at all, or I don't like it, or whatever the case is.