Hey, guys!
It's Jeff Cavaliere from athleanx.com.
We're standing here in the kitchen and I know, this sure looks odd that we're not in the
gym, but trust me... this is not the way I walk around the kitchen or cook or anything
like that.
Why I'm here or why I'm ready to show you a workout here is because I wanna overcome
any of those challenges, any of those objections out there that sometimes come in from guys
who are looking to do my workouts and say...
"I can't do that!
He's got all this equipment and I don't have that."
As a matter of fact, at my chest workout a lot of the guys were saying: He's got access
to all this equipment.
I understand, this is what I do for a living, but I don't utilize a lot of equipment in
that video, other than a dip bar and a band.
But still, I wanna prove to you that even in my own kitchen, I can get a workout with
just a little bit of creativity, using the athLEAN-X principles.
So the first thing I wanna show you... a lot of the guys don't have that dip stand, no
problem.
If you've got a kitchen counter of any sort, with a little bit of an angle, all you've
got to do is position yourself here ... we can work triceps and chest just based on the
way that we angle our bodies.
We wanna do triceps, we go straight up.
So straight up here...let yourself go straight down, come up...almost kind of like pushing
up and back.
Get it slow and under control.
We wanna do chest, we just lean a little more forward here and away from the corner...
[pause] And we go right into the back.
Now look guys, there's not much room in this kitchen here.
There really isn't...it's about the size of this counter top, but I'm just gonna walk
around and show you that.
Right here, I can work my back with just a towel...that's all I have for this workout,
a kitchen towel.
Put it down and now what I wanna do is get my arms way out to about here and now I'm
really starting to engage the abs.
From here, I'm gonna go straight out and then pull way back up.
Straight down, pull hard on the way back up.
What I'm essentially doing is definitely working my core too, but pulling the arms in not so
much with the core.
What I'm doing is a version of the straight down push up, if I were in the gym.
I'm gonna go right into my legs and I need just the slipperiness of the wood, but we're
going right into hamstrings.
So you get up into a bridge right from here.
A higher bridge gets glutes working, the lower back...
I'm gonna let the hamstrings come straight out...
Stay on your heels, keep your butt up and curl it straight back.
Real hard exercise, as long as you make sure that you keep your butt as high as you can
and you're not letting it fall down every rep, like that.
So you're keeping yourself up, straightening your legs out...
We can come straight up into a reverse lunge now, using this again...the towel or just
socks.
Position yourself here, come straight down, just let your foot slide back and you pull
it back up.
Let the foot slide back and come back up.
You can come down, hold it, rotate and come back up...whatever variation you wanna do,
but just start focusing on the quads now and still the glutes, but... right there you go
an equal number of reps on both sides.
Now you may not have the last one here, but you do wanna work the biceps.
I happen to have a little bit of an extra hanger here on this kitchen counter.
You can get creative...don't go behind the door or you'll hit yourself in the head.
But something like this, if you have access to it... position yourself underneath, grab
the top of the counter, come up here, put your butt up and do minicurls.
This is a solid exercise, good workout...
Remember, we're making the most of nothing, because we don't have anything but our kitchen.
Lastly, get the abs.
Get that towel back there again, put your feet on it, get into a plank position here
and do your skier tucks like that or you can do the big circles in both directions.
Guys, if you do this workout you can actually help the wife clean the floor while you're
doing the exercises, so I think everybody wins.
But honestly, the point is that with the athLEAN-X system, it comes with two versions: it comes
with a complete gym version, that you go to your local health club and workout and it
comes with a stripped version that you can do at home with little to no equipment...
...and all it takes is a little bit of ingenuity and a lot of dedication.
If you haven't already guys, remember the official countdown to summer has started.
We have about 80 days till the first day of summer and I wanna know: are you gonna be
ready?
Are you gonna be ready to show off your body without the shirt on?
I say if you get started today with athLEAN-X, you will be.
Head on to athleanx.com and learn some creative ways to get your body in the best shape and
start that body reconstruction now.
We'll be back soon, next week with another cool exercise.
Again, keep it fun, keep it unique and not the same, old monotonous stuff that you're
probably tired of, like I am.
I'll talk to you later, guys.