A heck of a workout with simple movements. Work on balance, strength, and endurance. An adaptive workout that uses essential and nonessential muscles and forces it all to work together.

That’s it, I’ve given up, we’re just going to have a cooking show. Screw this working out, I  can’t take this anymore. Diners drive-in’s and roadside death. Guy Fieri, can you stick more in your mouth? I don’t think so. You’re going to explode my friend! I’m a big fan of that show: I live vicariously thru his eating because I won’t eat that crap (laughs)

The mace, or as I like to call it…the Hanzo stick. Yes! The Hanzo stick, or as James Brown used to call it, “mama come quick and bring me that licking stick.” Oh yeah.  Hey look’it this, we’re going to get into a nice, deep horse stance and we’re going to stir the pot…high and low, low and high…switch it around. Now lemme tell you something, that’s bad mamba jamba. That works unbelievably the quads, obviously, but by holding this staff out,  the Hanzo stick, you’re really radiating stress, tension and strength in that area.

By bringing it and maneuvering it…now you’re turning it into an athletic endeavor. Mechanics are involved so you’re engaging all the important and non-essential muscles. Everything is forced to work together. I work w/a lot of people in other areas, Parkinson’s particularly and doing tai chi movement… the body needs adaptation daily. It needs to adapt to something new to create new synaptic freeways to keep the mind active, fresh aware. You gotta keep learning new things, you gotta keep the body moving 360 degree pattern otherwise you become a one trick pony. You become a pumped up body builder which looks cool, but is totally useless, you become a pumped up power lifter which I used to do and you become totally useless.  Or you become a Zumba instructor and I don’t know, get divorced from your lawyer husband and later on at happy hour…well anyway, you get the idea!!

So from the front, like this…get funky with it, change the dynamic by changing the height and the height of the bar holding it like this. That really creates bicep, forearm and really incorporates the core. I fear I’ve said to much already, go away!