Flip This!
If you're not tire flipping, sledge hammering, and sled pulling, you're not not having any fun!
Seriously, all of my clients do some variation of these exercises; young, older, men, women, kids, athletes and non-athletes. The tire flipping gets the best reactions: laughing, crying, screaming. I'm not kidding.
Anyway, a lot of these fly-by-night fitness boot camps have people perform these flips with little or no proper instruction. Very dangerous. This is a complex lift. It takes good instruction and practice.
Common mistakes:
1. Feet too close to the tire. Feet are under the hips because this is a pushing (not lifting) move.
2. Shoulders rise faster than hips. Keep hips low and drive tire forward.
3. Tire falls back toward pusher.This is a moving exercise with lots of momentum. Pusher needs to move forward with the tire.
4. Performing too many reps. Fatigue causes poor form and increases chance of injury.
5. Tire is too big( see above picture). Tire should be no taller than pusher.
Come to the Asylum and we'll give you a free flipping lesson. No flipping kidding.
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