Jeff Cavaliere

In this lunge position, if I can straighten myself out,

and keep my torso rigidly in place the whole time, then I can really strengthen that glute medius on the opposite side.

And what's cool about that is it's also done in conjunction with a sagittal plane lunge.

So now I'm starting to train in multiple dimensions and planes at one time.

So a lunge in this direction, suitcase carry offset, only one dumbbell, not on the other side, obviously.

You're going to get that desire for the body to fall towards the side of the offset weight.

And again, that starts to shift the pelvis up.

The only way we'll keep it down is by keeping the hip in, abducted, and level.

And that pelvis stays level.

So we'll do that with a lot of our athletes and work up to some pretty heavy weights there too.

And again, it is a kill two birds with one stone type exercise because you still get the benefits of the lunge, which I love.

as an exercise.

Which I like too, by the way.

That's more direct low back strengthening.

Mm-hmm.

which is always good like we can always strengthen our low backs so those muscles need to be strengthened but again i i would say more often the time at times the source of the low back pain is coming from the muscles but beneath them that are weak chronically weak like the glutes okay so reverse hypers the hip sliding up the wall approach maybe the dog leash uh with weight between um legs doesn't have to be a dog leash folks but you get the idea to try and minimize the hip sway

Two times.

I think you could do them on a dedicated day at a dedicated time.

So I approach my ab training as ab training and I always keep it separate.

I just like to focus on, I'm going to do 5 to 10 minutes of core strengthening right now, here and now, separate from my workout.