Build up your body armor with this bear crawl exercise to advance your ground work and training results.
You are only as old as your ability to get up and down from the ground and move in powerful pain free ranges of motion.
Ground work exercises have played a successful part in forging powerfully balanced and efficient bodies for many decades which is why I include them in my training program and advocate them to any trainee at all fitness levels.
Crawling variations train and reinforce those forgotten, highly beneficial motor patterns we have unlearned over time since we were carefree nimble kids.
Here is a challenging bear crawl exercise I practice using resistance in the form of a kettlebell hooked up and dragged behind me:
Why Do I Train Like This?
Confers Total Body Strength, Endurance and Durability
Improves Mobility
Makes You Powerfully Capable
Chews Up Calories And Primes Metabolism For Greater Caloric Burn Even At Rest
Naturally Lubes Up And Toughens Joints
Promotes Smooth, Pain-Free Movement
Builds A Body For “Go” And “Show”
Great Cardio And Conditioning Exercise
It’s Brief, Challenging And Yields Max Fitness
It’s A Real Core Crusher
Fun And Refreshing To Perform
These are pretty good reasons by any fitness metric, but it works for me and my goals.
So hit the ground whether indoors or outside and put your body through its primal paces – you won’t be disappointed and I guarantee your body will thank you for it!
Explore my site for ideas and methods to age in a powerful and graceful manner you may find useful to advance your own quality of life.
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I’m Mark Mellohusky – A director of finance who just happens to have a love for physical culture who enjoys chasing and practicing ways to promote the highest quality life for as long as I walk the planet.
I enjoy sharing my fitness training, health and financial philosophies I practice that I have either adopted or tweaked from some of the fitness/financial greats in history or designed myself.
Most of my adult life has been spent testing out and experimenting countless fitness methodologies filtering out and keeping the most productive methods that pay the most fitness dividends for my precious time invested and dumping those methods with the least value.
Don’t get upset by the results you didn’t get from the work you didn’t do!
I would rather have an honest enemy than a fake friend.
There’s a sparkle in my eyes and iron in my thighs.
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