rotational and anti-rotational movements? So, why do so many people neglect transverse plane exercises, a.k.a. With athletes, rotational movements are even more important, as sports require a lot of explosive rotation as well as anti-rotation. When you think about every day life, it contains situations where we rotate our bodies (or resist rotation) like looking both ways before crossing the street, taking groceries out of the car or shoveling snow. This obviously not ideal for well rounded strength and power, and it leads to reduced mobility and an increased chance of injury as we get older. Unfortunately, many of us get stuck training in 2/3 of these planes with the normal forward and backward, up and down, and side-to-side movements, often overlooking rotational movements. The ChopFit Chopper is available now, priced at $139.Life is lived in three dimensions, which means our bodies are required to move in a wide range of movement patterns and through three planes of motion.
You can also read a pretty comprehensive guide from the website and, from what we can tell, using it is easy enough that you can do a workout right at first use. From what we can tell, the straps are merely there to keep the darn thing from slipping and flying off (to avoid accidents), so you can opt not to use it if you’re working out in a relatively empty room anyway.Ī downloadable app provides a visual guide to all the exercises and details a number of workouts that you can do using the equipment. The ChopFit Chopper comes with a wrist strap that you can use to keep it in your grip, similar to how people tie straps on their wrists whenever they’re doing deadlifts. Despite providing up to 16 pounds of resistance, the whole thing actually weighs just four pounds, so it won’t weigh down your bag, either, when you do take it along. It measures 20.25 inches long, with the head measuring 6.75 inches wide, so this is small enough to fit in most people’s backpacks (no need for an axe pouch), making it easy to bring to the park, take to the gym, or even stash in your luggage for getting your workout on the road. In case you’re too much of a hulk to find a mere 16 pounds satisfying, you can put one Chopper in each hand to double the resistance.
According to the outfit, gripping it just below the head lowers the resistance to six pounds while holding it by the tip gives you 16 pounds to work with. Because all the weight is concentrated on the head, you can alter the resistance, depending on where you grip the handle. The ChopFit Chopper is, basically, an axe-shaped weight with a solid metal head and a reinforced plastic handle, so it’s heavy enough to provide resistance while ergonomic enough to enable to a secure grip. Is it effective? From what we can tell, it probably is, since you’re essentially performing compound exercises using the weighted fake axe to provide the resistance. Does it look cool? Absolutely not, as watching people pretend to chop logs in front of them while performing jumping lunges just look like some type of uncoordinated dancing. To ensure you get a full-body workout, though, they recommend altering the chopping movements by incorporating squats, lunges, and other complex actions, essentially turning it into a viable full-body workout. That’s the idea behind the ChopFit Chopper, a fitness equipment based on the traditional wood-cutting tool.ĭesigned for functional training, the equipment allows you to recreate wood chopping motions in place of more conventional exercises, so you can get fit like a mountain man who spent all day chopping up firewood for stashing at your nearby lakeside cabin. What we do know is, slamming an axe onto a thick tree trunk over and over will put your muscles through some serious work.
How fit do lumberjacks get? We don’t exactly know.
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