Wood Chop

Teaching Points

• Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and knees slightly bent
  
  
• Attach one end of the band to a stationary object and wrap the other end around both hands
  
  
• Start with your arms up above the shoulder closest to the attachment
  
  
• Keeping the elbows straight pull your hands down, across your body to the opposite hip
  
  
• Concentrate on using your stomach to twist from one side to the other
  
  
• Slowly return to the starting position

Muscles Worked

• Internal Obliques
  
  
• External Obliques

Related Injuries

• Abdominal muscle strain