Posts tagged functional fitness
Med Ball Toss Variations on the NOVA™ FTS

Build explosive power, core strength, and work rotational movements with medicine balls throws. 

The MoveStrong NOVA FTS offers a solid steel kickplate feature to withstand medicine balls throws and toss exercises. It is also great for various bodyweight exercises and handstand work to avoid damage to walls. 

In this video, Jared demonstrates various medicine ball tosses using a 20lb medicine ball. Remember, this is an aggressive, yet controlled exercise. Make sure to pick weight that is light enough to be controlled, but heavy enough to challenge you! Happy wall balling!

DynaBell Spiderman Push-up

Lets step it up a little on our push up game! Try Spiderman pushups using the MoveStrong DynaBell. Assume the pushup position. As you lower your body toward the floor, lift your right foot off the floor, swing your right leg out sideways, and try to touch your knee to your elbow. Reverse the movement, then push your body back to the starting position. Repeat, but on your next repetition, touch your left knee to your left elbow. Continue to alternate back and forth. #MoveoftheDay

Stall Bar Stretches

Have you ever thought about using stall bars for stretching? Check out the MoveStrong Stall Bars in MoveStrong Blue steel! Our Stall Bars are 48" wide for optimal exercise space, perfect for stretches and mobility!

Try the above stretches to increase your flexibility and mobility. Use the varied height rungs of the stall bars to better leverage hand and foot placement, for a longer, comfortable stretch.

Like what you see? Our Stall Bars are available in our online store!

MoveStrong Drive Sled Exercises

Use the MoveStrong Drive Sled for workouts to develop full body power by pushing and pulling high and low, forwards and backwards, fast and slow, to add variety and make a sled workout more challenging. Improve conditioning with these exercises performed in a non-stop, interval circuit fashion.

The MoveStrong Drive Sled is built for indoor and outdoor use and has a variety of handle for varied grip positions to perform many different exercises. Watch Jared demonstrate in the video above!

Climber Bar Plyo Pull-ups on the T-Rex Outdoor FTS

Build serious upper body strength with plyo pull-ups!

The MoveStrong T-Rex outdoor fitness station offers a 4-tiered Climber bar option to do pull-ups, climbing, hanging, and bounding between heights. This feature is also available on our indoor FTS models as well. Some very challenging upper body strength exercises to try!

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Stall Bar Hip Extension

Start with your feet on the floor. Activate your glutes and hamstrings to extend your hips until you are straight up and down. Alternate bending each leg one at a time to challenge your core and stability. It is harder than it looks! This exercise strengthens your hips, arms, hamstrings, and trunk using bodyweight exercises to strengthen muscles with dynamic movements and isometric contractions. 

Stall Bar Lunges Total Body Exercise

Fire up your glutes, hamstrings, and quads on the MoveStrong Stall Bars!

Perform total body lunges with back leg reach in 3 planes of motion. Not only will you feel it in your legs, but you also engage the lats, shoulders, and arms by extending arms and reaching towards your back leg in multiple planes.

Give it a try! We promise you will feel it!

Bodyweight Dragon Flag Progression on Stall Bars

Want abs like Bruce Lee? Watch Jared demonstrate Lee's famous Dragon Flag core exercise using the MoveStrong Stall Bars.  Start by hands grasping and bracing forearms against rungs that allow for a straight arm position, contract lats, and tighten core as you raise lower body.  Begin with the first progression and only proceed to the next based on your ability to maintain strict form for multiple reps in a slow controlled manner. Top position of each should finish on upper back and shoulders, NOT head or neck causing strain. Dragon Flags work all the core stabilizers and because it requires a controlled movement, it builds strength more quickly than isolated core exercises.

Climbing Rope Bounding on Outdoor Fitness Station

This video shows bounding with a climbing rope on the Kickplate feature of the MoveStrong T-Rex outdoor fitness station. 

Leg power to explode off the kickplate along with core and grip strength to keep your feet up while repeating for reps! A fun way to build functional strength!

The Kickplate is ideal for bodyweight exercises, bounding, stretching, handstands, and medicine ball tosses against a solid plate to withstand abuse and outdoor weather conditions.

Learn more about the customizable T-Rex outdoor functional fitness station.

Plank Roll Outs with the DynaBell

Check out Ronnie at IDEA World 2014 using the MoveStrong DynaBell™. 

The DynaBell can be used to perform countless exercises that engage the entire body, rather than strictly isolating one muscle group. Ronnie demonstrates just one of many DynaBell exercises in the video below. Watch him as he shows us how to do plank roll outs for core strength using the DynaBell.