Know if you've heard, but we're only four days away
from the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games and
in this morning's start today we are going to learn
how to train just like the world class athletes we
will be watching.
I doubt it.
To show us is Kenny Sullivan.
He's a senior instructor at Barry's and somebody who actually
is familiar with the Olympic stage, competing in the 400
meter hurdles in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
How do you train for the hurdles?
I mean, show you.
He's just pretty well.
He's so tall, he can just walk over.
So.
So I guess one of the the very beginning things
you any athlete needs to do, even an Olympian, you
gotta warm up.
You gotta stretch, you gotta warm up.
Any great workout, whether it be at Barry's, whether it
be at your track, whether it be at the gymnasium,
it all starts with the warm up.
It's our first week that we're gonna do.
We're into the world's greatest stretch.
OK, So all you do, you walk it out and
you guys come down with me.
Right foot, go see your right hand, and you open
it up just like that.
Now, here's the thing.
You can't do it.
The point is that it activates dorsiflexion in your ankles.
And this is what I longed for.
Here, come back.
You're just gonna be my model.
Yeah.
No, 100%.
No.
Do it again.
I wanna show America what I wanna be able to
do.
Yeah.
See how straight this is?
Everyone.
Right.
Well, 100%.
I mean, it activates dorsiflexion in your ankles.
It lengthens muscles in your calves, your claws, your glutes.
I'm gonna also, it calls on coordination and balance.
So it's really, really good.
Do that on each side.
So what is that?
How many, how long?
We all, we cycle through a few times.
You go one, maybe like 3 seconds on one side,
go other side, then come back to the other side.
You go back and forth.
So you're an expert in track and field.
Let's talk about what we may see with some of
the runners.
And a lot of our viewers do running.
They do power walking.
Give us something.
Yeah.
Well, believe it or not, track and field and running
is actually a single leg exercise.
So in track you go, it's only one foot on
the ground at a time, as you know, the runner.
Yep.
And so you need to be strong independently in both.
I love how they gave us a track go run.
So second move, you put your left foot in front,
your right foot behind.
It's called a split squat.
And what this does, it isolates one leg at a
time.
So the most important thing, your right knee does not
go or your left knee does not go beyond your
left toe.
You're going to fit up and down.
And what's asking for your glutes to work, your hamstrings
to work, which are the most important, most important muscles
when it comes to frenzing?
And how long are you holding that?
Look, I'll tell you what.
If you get down here for about 30 seconds, you
begin to pulse.
It'll get you right.
So you do one side at a time.
Yeah.
You switch sides.
Yeah.
Just he might be the first person that says he'll
get you right.
Show you right.
So you're right.
What about swimming?
That's always a popular Olympic sport.
A lot of folks enjoy watching that 100%.
Well, it comes from your core.
Swimming, things like gymnastics, they all come from your core.
And so it's something your shoulders also have to be
very strong.
So you go to an overhead press or an overhead,
sorry, an overhead mark, some dumbbells go nice and high.
You're going to activate your core, going to center your
glutes, and now it's going to raise one leg at
a time.
So you hold it for a little bit, you go
straight back down, you switch sides, energy just like that.
Perfect.
You look great.
Yeah.
Another thing we all need to practice.
OK, so from the pool to the arena.
OK, what do gymnasts need to do to strengthen their
upper percent?
Oh, yeah.
Now.
Yeah, 100%.
Well, they need a lot of body strength.
So one would we love to do?
It's very, very basic.
It's called a curl.
It's a press to a cute little overhead tricep extension.
So on the curl, working the biceps, on the press,
asking the shoulders to work, just bring that cherry juice
in.
And on the overhead tricep, asking the tricep the work.
So it's a good everybody moves to work.
And after your workout, you like cherry juice 100%.
I mean, look, this is good for it's good for
anti and famous.
I hear so many people.
Yes, anti information is good for sleep.
It's like tart cherry juice.
Love it.
Is it extra tart cherry just really cheer the Olympics.
Cheers.
Cheers so much.
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