Here are 5 core intensive exercises with the Elevate Trainer while feet suspended in cradles. Placement of cradles on legs can be adjusted to increase or decrease level one difficulty. Cradles higher on leg towards knee provides more off-load of Bodyweight when performing these type of exercises.

While these focus heavily not he core, the entire body is engaged to stabalize the body in a plank position while performing the various pikes, knee tucks, and hip swings. Making this a great functional strength and total body stability exercises. 

MoveStrong designed a complete suspension trainer tool that allows for various Handle grips. The two anchored adjustable straps and standard handles with oversized cradle, shown in this video, allow for more range of motion and ease of adjusting cradles at different positions on feet and legs. 

MoveStrong's wall mount training Rope Ladder is great for various functional fitness and strength training exercises. The Rope Ladder is also an available training feature for the Nova FTS models. Great grip, core, back, and arm strength training along with conditioning work using battle ropes of different sizes. 

Use with a parter to alternate back and forth with rope pull variations like these shown:

• Low pull
• Lateral side pull
• Side pull high to low
• Side Pull low to high

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The MoveStrong Elite Adjustable Parallel Bars are a great functional training tool for upper body strength and core fitness exercises. Here are 5 exercises for Parallel bars that incorporate holds, L-sits, and knee-up variations. Just a few of the many movements that can be done for bodyweight workouts. 

1- L-sit to press
2- L-sit holds
3- Knee-ups
4- Alternate knee-ups
5- Pendulum swings

The adjustability of the parallel bars allow for different height bar settings and allow unlimited amount of functional training strength, mobility, calisthenics, and core exercises.

The MoveStrong M3 Bars are a versatile tool for various bodyweight strength, calisthenics, hand balancing, and yoga exercises. Here are a few exercises that can be performed using the different handle positions available on the M3 Bars.

Functional strength training trio of exercises to perform in a circuit style workout to develop strength and power in the posterior chain of the body. Emphasis on hip and hamstrings.

1- Ground-to-Overhead using Ground Rotational Trainer with GRT Handle

2- Nordic Ham Curls, perform on stall bars, lower slow as possible and press up back to start

3- Lying Elevate Trainer Ham Curls Perform 8-12 reps each with 30-60sec rest between exercises.

Using the MoveStrong GEO Floor Obstacles to create different challenge courses to focus on movement skills, balance, agility, crawling, and stability. 

The different GEO shaped obstacles can be configured in different size and shape courses using the Link connectors. A great addition to a workout that emphasizes movement skills we often neglect! Especially as we age and start to be more challenged with everyday balance needs for life activities and sports!

Using the MoveStrong Elevate Trainer to perform push-up and plank exercises while positioning arms on the Rev Balance board. A great way to increase the core strength, stability, and upper body strength involved in performing these suspension training exercise variations.  Bodyweight and functional fitness workouts with MoveStrong tools. 

The Ground Rotational Handle by MoveStrong allows for use with the GRT feature, a.k.a. Landmine, on the Functional Training Station gym racks. Using an Olympic bar and desired weight the handle slips over bar end and tightens. The handles rotate independently allowing for ease of transition from ground to overhead, comfort, and more efficient movement in performing functional strength exercises.

Video below shows a few of the exercises that can be performed wit the GRT Handle

• Ground to overhead with Squat
• Reverse Lunge to press
• Side-to-side rotation
• Over head squat
• Push jerk

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Practicing some alternate active shoulder hangs on the pull-up bar. Great for grip, wrist, and forearm strength but mainly focusing on creating strength and stability in the shoulder joint for healthy shoulders and help reduce risk of shoulder injuries when performing other dynamic bodyweight exercises that can be hard on the shoulders. Give these a try and you'll soon find out which is your weaker and tighter side. Slow and controlled maintaining active shoulders, scapula down and back, as you alternate side to side grasping the pull-up bar. 

Performed on the MoveStrong pull-up bracket system with the Z-bar. 

Additional training features designed specifically for the MoveStrong Salmon Ladder. Swing and bound across from bar to bar. Lache is a parkour and calisthenics move that requires swinging and bounding across bars in mid air. Ideal move to practice on the MoveStrong Salmon ladder.

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Combo to blast your chest while working shoulder stability and intensifying core recruitment. Archer roll-out push-ups with the MoveStrong DynaBell combined with suspended Archer Push-ups with the Elevate Trainer!

You are only as strong as your weakest link! So often our grip fails first in training, sports, and in task performed outside the gym. Incorporate more grip strength in performing exercises like hanging holds and pull-ups with larger diameter or odd shaped objects . This video shows some variations using the MoveStrong Cobra Grips to perform various exercises that emphasize grip strength while performing core and pull-ups variations. Progress in the exercises you are capable of by performing more reps and/or more hanging hold times. 

Exercise progressions in the video are while grasping the Cobra Grips:

• Single knee-up
• Double knee-up with hold
• Knee-up to L-sit
• Jumping pull-up
• Pull-up
• L-Sit Pull-up

Using the MoveStrong Elevate Trainer and DynaBell to combine two great exercises to challenge your entire body with forward and backward lunging with rotation and enhanced core and shoulder stability needed with the Elevate Bar push-up on Stall bars. 

Here are 9 dynamic strength exercises with the MoveStrong DynaBell! Limitless strength and functional training exercises with this one tool that offers multiple handle grip positions. Here's a few to get you moving in all directions, build power, and functional strength with some conditioning work as well as you move from one to the next in a circuit workout!

Using the MoveStrong Elevate Trainer and suspension bar attachment to perform a very challenging Bodyweight exercise that emphasizes core and shoulder strength. Great total body stability movement that engages the entire body. 

The exercise shown, Push-up with overhead reach, should only be attempted by individuals with strong shoulders and core strength. Regress the exercise by widening foot placement, reduce angle of body, and shorten range of motion in movement during exercise.

Learn more about the Elevate Trainer for suspension workouts and more functional fitness training equipment at www.movestrongfit.com/elevate-trainer

What a fun great way to build usable bodyweight strength, stability, and balance by practicing various climbs and pulls on a horizontal suspended rope. With a lot of upper body strength, the lower body does come into play to balance and stabilize yourself while scaling across the rope. Mimic obstacle course challenges by scaling above or below the ropes. Adds new dimension to pull-ups, hangs, and holds with the grip strength and skills needed to stabilize the rope while performing an exercise. Give the exercises a try with the horizontal climbing rope:

• Horizontal climb under rope with feet
• Hand over hand climb without feet
• Horizontal climb on top of rope
• Under rope lateral climb with hands
• Under rope lateral climb with legs and hands
• Pull-ups
• Muscle-ups
• Hanging holds

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Single leg squat is an awesome exercise to build the lower body and glutes while improving functional strength with this unilateral movement that will improve balance and stability as well.

Place rear leg over one suspended Elevate Belt. Place foot on belt for more difficulty or place belt higher up towards knee for more comfort, assistance to offload, and help stabilize during exercise.

Maintain erect torso, bend front leg and drop slowly to a comfortable depth, pause, return up to start. Allow Elevate Belt to move slightly forward and backwards during exercise to maintain comfortable movement and balance.

To add more challenge to this exercise, hold a DynaBell at chest level using the end blue handles during the movement for added resistance.

Lateral Flexion for core and stability training performed with the MoveStrong Elevate Trainer. Exercises performed with the Elevate Trainer allows user foot placement to vary the difficulty of the suspension exercises by simply adjusting body angle. The Elevate Belts provide support at waist and hips. The MoveStrong Stall bars add even more progressions to the exercise as you move your feet from the floor to the rungs of the stall bars. The higher feet placed on Stall bars the more difficult the exercise. Watch video below for more details on performing this exercise.

See more instructional videos for the Elevate Trainer and Stall bars in our MoveStrong Video Library.

The MoveStrong GRT handle is used with a Olympic bar while inserted in a Ground Rotational Trainer (GRT a.k.a Landmine). The GRT is an available option on MoveStrong FTS models, Squat Stands, and wall mount stations. The GRT and GRT Handle are great tools for total body and core emphasis exercises to develop functional strength and accommodate all users and ability levels.

This video shows the efficiency when transitioning from ground to over head in one fluid movement. The rotating handles allow for comfort and smooth continuous movement as the user lifts, cleans, squats, and then presses overhead. An awesome total body strength and conditioning movement to engage the entire body.

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