A second workout with the monkey foot device, using pyramid sets of five reps per movement. The key cue: keep your opposite heel off the ground to build calf and hip stability. Start light, accumulate volume before adding weight, and you'll see transfer to single-leg power and speed.
So I've just received the monkey foot. Looking at how to train it. It's my second session using it. So I've been doing pyramid set. So five reps on the hip flexor and then five reps on the hamstring, Then4. What I've also been doing is keeping the other leg heel off the ground. So I'm getting really good stability activation through the calf through the hip. Deceptively intense. And you really can get some. Some good work through the opposite hip as well. So overall I wasn't sure if I was going to really like the monkey foot. Obviously I didn't know until I tried it, but I can really see how it's quite a specific tool. I really like being able to pair off back to back. Left foot, right foot. And it's easier than I thought to transition between the left and the right foot as well. So, new toy, the monkey foot. Playing around with keeping the heel off the ground on the opposite leg. Five reps left leg first inflection. Well, first hip flexion and knee flexion. So I've only got quite light, giving my body a chance to get used to it. Accumulation before intensification. The pliquid system goes many systems. If you keep that other heel off the ground, very intense. Also for the stance leg. Overall, very happy with those at all. I wasn't quite sure if I'd like it. Something new, something different. Looks a bit awkward. Actually works really well if you keep it on one leg for a little while, swap it to the other leg can be quite efficient as well. By keeping the heel off the ground, I'm getting a lot of work around the hip and in the foot, which is what I think I need more of to transfer. It's a good single leg. Power, speed, build the foundation.
