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Hi, David Weck here. Today, I'm going to teach you an exercise with the POWERSTAX Riser for the shoulders, the arms, and especially the core.
Here, I have a POWERSTAX Riser. Now, it has 3 basic functions: 1. It's to elevate the BOSU Balance Trainer because you can stack one on top of another. The 2nd function would be to stabilize a platform side up BOSU Balance Trainer as you rest the dome within this annulus open hole. And the 3rd is what we're going to do today, which is resistance training, either with the outside handles, or the inside handles [Functional Strength Training]. The POWERSTAX Riser is weighted with water inside. It can be 5 lbs, all the way to 30 lbs. This one is about 20 lbs of shifting water weight, and it provides this great variable resistance for the exercise that I'm going to show you right now.
It begins with the POWERSTAX Riser right above your head just like 'this.' You don't want to poke your head through the hole for this exercise, you want to keep it above the level of the head. I'm using the outside handles at first, and I just shift from 'here' (bring the elbow down to the flank 'here'), and then boom. 'Here' and 'here.' And then I go as fast as I can.
It is tremendous conditioning, and you will feel that exercise in the obliques big time. It puts nice work through the shoulders, and the arms as well. The way that we like to do it is 20 seconds of all out intensity, followed by 10 seconds of rest. You can sequence that 4-8 times, and you will have a tremendous set in your workout that leaves you metabolically challenged, really tightens up and conditions the core, and great work for the shoulders and the arms. Use the outside handles for more range of motion. Use the inside handles for greater speed, less range of motion.
That's the BOSU POWERSTAX Riser: Shoulders, Arms and Core Exercise.
