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I want to take some of those things that I have talked about in previous posts a step further i.e. loading arms and legs using wearable resistance to train the core for movement variability, injury resistance and performance. I was having a chat with Chris Korfist, which is always enlightening and fun, and he was telling me he is loading one arm of his athletes and then getting them to run, swinging the loaded arm all over the place, thus the title of the article.

Why?

Chris believes we are abdominal muscle centric and the shop we need to get in order first are the paraspinal muscles. Athletic performance is compromised if spine function is compromised. That is, it is difficult to optimise performance if the spine is not safe, so let’s challenge the paraspinals with exercises like swing like a madman. He believes better paraspinal function will enable better hamstring function.

What do you reckon? Time to put some loaded single-arm-swing running into your programs?