Coach Damon Vincent and Zach, who has FA, demonstrate the kettle bell hula hoop exercise, which is great for building core stability with FA.
Transcript
What’s up, guys? Coach Damon V. here with my guy Zach. Today we’re going to show you guys another great Rare Move exercise. This one is one of my favorites. It’s called the kettlebell hula hoop, or the kettlebell pass.
Here’s what we’ve got: a kettlebell in one hand, and my guy Zach standing up against the wall. The wall is supporting him because we’re going to be stabilizing in a few different ways. We don’t want to be in free space quite yet; we’ll work toward that. So we start leaning up against the wall.
What he’s going to do is take that kettlebell, pass it in front, and then back to the wall. Exactly. You can see he’s passing it. The weight is adding tension to different sides of the core constantly. When he holds it on this side, he’s stabilizing here. Then he passes it in front and behind the core, and now he’s stabilizing on the opposite side.
So we’re adding live core stability. Not only is his core constantly having to adjust, but his brain is also constantly having to adjust. Then we add in some hand-eye coordination with the pass-off, some motor skills, and some grip strength. This is just an awesome all-around exercise for FA athletes.
We can do it standing against the wall, then progress to standing in free space. We can also do it kneeling. Then we can work up to going all the way around, Zach. That’s what we’ll work up to: passing it behind our back in the future, going all the way around like a hula hoop. But, Zach, that looks great, brother.
