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Radical Rotation: A Game Changing Training Tool.

If you could care less about the abstract behind this short workshop, just remember this: The human body was built to rotate. It was not designed to move back and forth like C-3PO or Rock’em Sock’em robots.

Rotation is pivotal (pun intended) and we need more of it in our training. Period.

I will keep the text here short & sweet. This video took me forever to edit because I wanted it to be fun. If you know me well or have trained with me in-person, you know my ideas get a little “out-there” but this one specifically means a lot to me and my personal practice.

I took two definitions of the word ‘radical’ and merged them.

1) Relating to or proceeding from a root (the foot tripod mentioned in the video) and;

2) Affecting the fundamental nature of something (our ability to rotate. Think throwing, sprinting, turning our heads, dancing, etc.); far reaching or thorough (hence the “full” body version described in the video and the reaching hands).

It isn’t radical because it’s “cool” or because it’s to be done as intensely as possible.
It is radical because it thoroughly wrings our tissues out by rotating away from the roots leaving ALL the muscles and joints in the body feeling charged, long, cooperative, and resilient. It tips its hat to our fundamental nature, mimicking real life situations unlike most gym machines.

Again, I know this is abstract. If you need more explanation, go to YouTube, and watch a high-level sprinter run in slow motion, a Kalahari bushman throw a spear, or anyone dancing capoeira. We are expert rotators. To exclude rotation is to exclude something deeply human.

So, I try to incorporate a great deal of complex rotation into my practice. This is one of my favorites and I hope you absolutely love it.

How-2-Implement: I love adding rotation as a “mobility break” or a “movement snack”. Anytime, anywhere check in with the bodyweight version of this exercise. If you’d like to grab a kettlebell, add the weighted variations to your next strength workout, MIIT, or build an entire routine around the variations. Invent your own flows and variations even!

Equipment Used: Your body and a floor. Add weights like kettlebells, dumbbells, water jugs, or any other implement you can get your hands on.

Q&A: Having trouble with some of the concepts? Not feeling what I say you “should” be feeling? It happens! Reach out to me through messenger, text, DM me on IG, whatever! If it feels awesome and you’re loving it, reach out too!

I need all the healthy criticism I can round up as I polish the content and its delivery to our Patreon community.

You’re Support means the world to me.

Enjoy,

Zac King

Anthroproach

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