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AXON Part 3 of 7 | Horizontal Press | Why The TVA Is A "Bracing System"

21 Dec 2017 · 2 min

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Instructional demo of the 'horizontal press' exercise using the Axon stick. Instructor cues body position (horse stance, soft knees, tucked tailbone, glutes squeezed, core braced, chest up), sets the Axon to a target force of 60 pounds, and performs ~10-second isometric presses into a wall while emphasizing breathing and matching a strength curve. Participants report feeling activation in the transverse abdominis, obliques, and glutes.

Questions this video answers

60 pounds of pressure.

About 10 seconds.

So in this video, we're going over the horizontal press with the axon. Can you take me through it?
Yeah, absolutely. So you're gonna go ahead now and take the stick and put it in a horizontal position. Okay. So we call this horse stance. So you want to have a nice, soft knee, you want to tuck your tailbone, you want to squeeze your glutes, you want to draw in your core. Get your present your chest up high so you're in a nice upright posture. And so before we can make contact here, let me go ahead and shoot this exercise over to the axon. So horizontal press. Make sure that it says this on the stick. There we go. Okay, so now our target force with this is 60 pounds of pressure. So let's go ahead now and press it into the wall. Okay, so make sure. Breathe. One thing you don't want to do with isometric training is hold your breath too much, which is our natural inclination to do so. He's holding and sustaining this for about 10 seconds. Okay, keep pushing. And then now it's going to go ahead and come back down. So go ahead and release. Release, release. Under control. And there you go. So, as you can see, we just try and match the strength curve. And so his data points were pretty. Pretty in line with that. But, yeah, it just. It just left because we're doing it again. But that's the basic gist of the horizontal press. Wow.
I could definitely feel that in my transverse abdominis and pretty much in my glutes.
Obliques. Yeah, glutes, yeah.
So isometric training with the axon. Stick around for the next video.
There.