Farmer Walks: How-To

I’m a functional practical heaux. I love doing things that have direct application to my everyday life and so I wanna share about some of those movement.

So the Farmer’s Walk. Few people have heard of it, but almost everyone has performed it. Are you a part of the One Trip club, vowing to carrying every bag you’ve gotten from the store so you don’t have to return to the car? Walked your newly acquire textbooks to your dorm room? Have to separate siblings and drag them to their rooms? You’ve done a Farmer’s Walk?

Popularized by Strongmen competitions, farmer walks are gaining steam among the masses because of its many benefits.

Benefits

- Full Body Exercise
-Increased forearm and grip strength. Weak grips are actually used an an early marker of age-related functional decline
- Increased hip and for stability to  from the need to maintain posture during the movement
-Functional Exercise. It mimics a movement we do almost everyday
-Versatile. You can use anything heavy that you can safely carry. Commonly performed with kettlebells, dumbbells and  sandbags.

It’s fairly important to start light so that you can focus on practicing with proper posture and a tall spine

If you want to incorporate it just find something you can carry of equal weight in each hand for twenty to thirty seconds before losing your form and move up from there. For added challenge, carry items of unequal weight in each hand and swap to keep each arm balanced.

Tips

-Posture is everything
-brace your core
-smile