Hi, guys.

You know what that one’s from? Exile on Main Street, ball it down the line. Get it? It’s the last song on…never mind.

Squats. Safe squats, protecting your knees and your back. Using the Swiss ball and not a Polish ball or a soft, southern or eastern European ball. You want to use a Swiss ball.

Push your hands out, sinking down to a parallel. You get all this support. Your back’s supported, especially in the round of your back, by the ball itself. It fills in the gaps, supports your body weight. You can push in to leverage your body up. If you don’t have enough strength in your quadriceps, and frankly most people don’t.

When you come down, you breathe in and you exhale out. Nice. You breathe in, out. Super easy peasy.

You could put your feet together and make it more dynamic, more intense. Squat down. Now you have to balance. See that? Now you’re working more core.

You use these tools to eventually get to a point where maybe you just do a squat the other way, where you’re holding the ball and you go all the way down. It looks like some sort of ballerina that’s on the run from Russia. You know, oye.

The Swiss ball is yet another cheap tool. It is a $15, $20 at any Walmart or Target. Believe me when I tell you this, that these tools you’ve been seeing that aren’t expensive and that you should have in your gym and what your gym should be made up of can accomplish everything you thought and more.

It’s how I got and keep my physique and how I teach everybody. All my students learn these techniques on all these. They’re educated on all these disciplines.

Stretching, calisthenics, and yoga on a Swiss ball are kind of like a pastrami on rye. It’s a big meaty sandwich with mustard on it. No, that’s not right. You get the idea.

Listen, when we come back, who knows what we’ll be doing. But it will be exciting. See you.