Battle Rope Training: Deadlift Form SandRope Slams

Battle rope training with SandRope slams is a great no-impact, joint-friendly, full-body exercise, that improves power, strength, and provides great cardio. The benefit, however, is lost when people begin with a flawed foundation for their battle rope training.
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Battle Rope Training: Deadlift Form for SandRope Slams

How to get the most out of battling ropes exercises

Battle rope training with SandRope slams is a great no-impact, joint-friendly, full-body exercise, that improves power, strength, and provides great cardio. The benefit, however, is lost when people begin with a flawed foundation for their battle rope training.
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Many ignore the lower body completely, and just try to fire through their anterior deltoids to slam a SandRope fitness rope. They brace the lower body in an isometric position and flex and extend only at the shoulder joint. This will render great upper body strength (anterior deltoids on the lift and lats on the slam down), but if you just want to target your shoulders, why turn to fitness ropes? Just grab a set of dumbbells, a SandBell sandbag weight, a medicine ball, or even two cans of soup and do front shoulder raises to your heart’s content. But when training with SandRopes, don’t just isolate one body part or enhance one component of physical fitness. Use this more dynamic battle rope for what it’s great at: targeting your entire body and all components of physical fitness! Squats are taxing on the quads and glutes. They lift and lower the body, vertically. Squats will absolutely get your heart rate elevated if you build a SandRope slam from a squat base, but you will fizzle quickly. You’ll get fantastic cardio, but it will feel like a colossal waste of energy. If getting your heart rate up with battle rope training is your goal, you deliberately want to put yourself at a mechanical disadvantage: make it as hard as possible because that will tax your heart and lungs. In that respect, ding, ding, ding: jackpot! But that 15 pound SandRope fitness rope (the lightest SandRope) will feel like a HEAVY full filled fire hose! Most people turn to battle ropes for the athletic conditioning and power benefit. That just happens to also improve full-body strength with cardio as an ancillary benefit. If you put your body at a mechanical advantage, that SandRope battle rope (whether 15 or 30 pounds) will be yours to dominate. By creating a slingshot with your hips, you will be slamming that SandRope like a champ! A bent-knee dead lift is a surefire way to make your body a SandRope slamming machine. In the video, watch Hyperwear Master Trainer, Brook Benten, unleash great force on the SandRope battling ropes by building her Slam from a bent-knee dead lift base. She teaches you how to strategically use your torso, hips, and thighs to apply force from the “big house” (the glutes) onto the SandRope fitness rope. Read up on all the advantages of the SandRope and get yours today. Learn more about research on the benefits of training with battle ropes. Brook Benten, M.Ed., is a cult of personality, recognized as a fitness star on the rise. She is a fitness model, presenter, and Hyperwear Master Trainer. Her ACE-approved CardioPump™ Kettlebell workshop provides kettlebell education for campus recreation. Brook has contributed materials for Prevention Magazine such as "20 minutes to Slim and Sculpted with SandBells", Personal Fitness Professional (PFP) Magazine, LiveSTRONG, and the Associated Press. The FIT Company Institute named Brook Benten 2012 “Austin's Fittest Fitness Professional.”

Note: Hyperwear as discontinued the SandRope and replaced it with the more advanced flexible metal core Hyper Rope battle rope.