10 Reasons to Lift Weights with your FEET

10 Reason to Lift Weights with your FEET

Here's the video, and below it I wrote up the 10 Reasons:
 
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1. #1 Muscle Mass Difference Found Between Regular Humans and Elite Sprinters
  • NOT the only difference, but the biggest difference
 
2. Catching Up To Your Hip Extension!
  • Most athletes have been training hip extension for years or decades, without ever once addressing hip FLEXION with measurable Standard (the ATG Standard is 10% BW x 20 Reps Thigh Above Parallel - compared to [Stretched] Hip Extension Standard of 100% BW x 6 Single-Leg Stiff-Leg Deadlift From Floor and [Extended] Hip Extension Standard of 100% BW x 6 Single-Leg Back Extension Deadlift - 3 of the 10 Standards which release in 2 weeks)
 
3. Side-Effect of Stronger Glutes in Extension!
  • If your hip flexion is weak, you shorten your stride and do not FINISH with your glutes. Athlete after athlete has found their GLUTES to go to the next level and break years of plateau only after jacking up their hip flexion strength.
 
4. PRICE!
  • I used to drive an hour to use a $5000 hip flexion machine, which I found did not work as well as cable machines ($1500 for any decent ones), which I found did NOT work as well as FREE WEIGHT because...
 
5. FREE WEIGHTS WORK BETTER THAN MACHINES!
  • Machines work. Free weights work BETTER. This has been proven for decades.
 
6. Hip Flexors have greater strength potential than the "6-pack"
  • So most people will spend decades making very little actual strength gain in their core, while their hip-flexors remain weak, thus holding back their total flexion strength and preventing their abs themselves from reaching peak form!
 
7. TRAINING TO FAILURE!
  • With the Hip-Flexor Lift, you can keep pushing and pushing and pushing. Whereas on other lifts, it would be unsafe. With the hip flexors, if the dumbbell doesn't get past parallel... NO SWEAT. You can train as hard as you desire without risking injury by pushing. So yes, this is a long-term muscle, but ALSO YES: you can make INSANE improvements to its strength because you can push it so hard, SAFELY.
 
8. CLUSTER TRAINING!!
  • This means stopping, going, stopping going, getting in the way more work than if you just did normal sets. With most lifts, this would be super impractical and risky. But go ahead and scan the video and you'll see I did over 150 reps on one leg! So yes you could quite literally watch a movie at night and have put more money in the bank for your speed than anyone else on earth will ever achieve in a single session.
 
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9. LESS KNEE PAIN!
When you lack hip flexors you clop, clop, clop around with heavy legs, adding unnecessary stress to the knees. Of course, we can mathematically bulletproof the knees through Knee Ability, but the excess strain in the first place from weak hip flexors affects every stride you take and how much strain you are putting on your knees. Are you a GLIDER, or a CLOPPER? This was taught to me by 50+-year-old Doctor Stephen Nedd who is the oldest person I've seen do a flat Martin St. Louis Nordic with strict form and runs like a gazelle for his age.
 
10. LESS SHIN SPLINTS!
You can mathematically BULLETPROOF your shins through Tibialis + Soleus, BUT if you make yourself more of a GLIDER than a CLOPPER, you reduce excess stress in the first place and mathematically make shin splints less likely while creating superior running longevity. This was taught to me in person by Charles Poliquin, who trained more Olympic medalists (286) than any strength coach in history.
 
Yours in Making the Truth... SIMPLE!
Ben