Wood Chop Exercise

Bend your right knee forward while your left leg is extended backwards.

Wood chop exercise. Although this is a full-body move it doesnt require a lot of space so you can do it almost anywhere. This longer lever increases the loading on the spine requiring the core muscles to work harder. Indeed while the swinging motion might look like an arm exercise to the untrained eye experienced strength athletes will notice that wood chopping is primarily a core exercise that also recruits.

The cable woodchop is an explosive multi-joint exercise that develops strength and power throughout the core and obliques. First get in a starting position. Place your feet outside shoulder width and bend your knees while keeping your back straight and chest up.

Start standing with your feet shoulder-width apart and turned out slightly. Turn your toes out slightly and position your knees in line with your feet. Hold this position while you do several reps of the wood chop exercise with your weight.

You can do woodchops with a medicine ball or dumbbell but the cable will give a constant tension that is preferable. A wood chop is a great functional exercise for the core and specifica. Repeat the same movement but extend your arms at the elbow and maintain this arm position throughout the wood chop movements.

Crouch until your thighs are parallel to the floor keeping your back straight. While it primarily targets the abdominals and obliques it also employs the shoulders back and glutes. Stand straight with your feet shoulder-width apart and hold a dumbbell with both hands.

Personal trainer Kai Simon demonstrates how to do a dumbbell woodchop or wood chopper. How To Do The Dumbbell Woodchop. Flip around and lunge forward with your left leg as you work out the opposite side of your body.