Farmer walking variations: Z-shaped Farmer walking

Farmer Walking is a forgotten classic. Compared with bench press and squat movements, its appearance rate is extremely low. Even athletes with a certain fitness level have rarely used this movement

Although it is forgotten, it does not prevent it from becoming a practical and powerful movement!

From the training efficiency, it can help us improve the muscles of the whole body, strengthen the grip strength, develop the stability of the torso and consume a lot of calories!

At the same time, Farmer Walking is a very functional movement. Its movement feature is that it can effectively control each One of the daily movement patterns that people use: moving, moving when there is a load.

Imagine that when you come back from the mall, it is actually a process of a farmer walking!

The farmer walks with many changes. Combined with different weight-bearing positions and movement methods, it can directly induce the activation of joint stabilizing muscle groups, which can bring good effects on preventing joint movement damage. For example, the hexagonal bar farmer walking, barbell pieces, one-handed farmer walking, etc. introduced earlier!

What I want to introduce to you today is: Z-shaped farmer Walking!

Traditional farmer walking is a straight line on the moving path. In fact, we can change our taste and try the following folded Z-shaped farmer walking!

This kind of farmer walking has the following benefits:

1. Adding twists and changes in the load-bearing movements is very high for your torso stability, especially the core strength of anti-rotation and anti-lateral bending, because the weight will try to pull your body out of alignment, and you need to work hard to maintain the stability and neutrality of the spine

This is for athletes who want to accelerate and decelerate It has a great impact. The most difficult part of any farmer walking is the starting and stopping part. Once you find the rhythm, moving the weight will become easier!

2. Increase the muscle tension of the whole body

Self-exercise requires this muscle tension and whole body tension to maintain the body's control over the load.

3. If your gym has limited space, Z-shaped farmer walking will be a good choice

4. Compared to straight farmer walking, you don't need to load too much weight, it is more friendly to joints, but it is just as strongly stimulating to muscle tissue!