Chest Press Exercises with a Kinesis System

Video Transcript

"WALLY REULE: Hi. My name is Wally Reule. I'm a personal trainer, owner of SedonaFit, and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. Okay, I'm going to move over to the Alpha station now and start demonstrating some exercises there. This equipment has handles, cables with a continuous loop, and I define the movement with this. I can do whatever I want with this. It also has a weight stack here so I can change the resistance, change the weight up or down, and I used earlier the example of a chest press while I'm seated on a piece of equipment, and there is no activity or there's no pressure, nothing to be done with my lower body, so that's inactive at the time, so I'm not integrating with other muscle groups. In this case, if I were to do the chest press here, I could do it in the static position that we've discussed, standing right here in the static lunge. Now my whole body is engaged. And when I'm doing my chest press, I have to make an effort to stay balanced, I have to make an effort to keep my core engaged, so I'm not pushing myself backwards like this, and I can do a static like this. I can then change to the other leg forward and I'm engaging again my whole core, my legs, my chest, my arms, most of my body is engaged, doing this exercise like this. And you can see my posture is straight up. I'm not pushing into it like this; I'm maintaining an erect position."