Atlas Stone Training for Athletes

If your goal is to build freakish strength and pack on slabs of lean muscle mass then look no further from the atlas stone.

OK let’s be honest not just athletes can benefit from training with stones. Any human being that can squat down scoop up a stone lift it and start walking will benefit tremendously from this training method.

All athletes benefit from what they call “triple extension”. Triple extension is the simultaneous extension of your hips, knees and ankles. Common exercises used to strengthen #tripleextension are #Olympic lifts like the #Snatch and #PowerClean and most standard lower body plyometric exercises.

But you guessed it #AtlasStones also trains the triple extension with the added benefit of real life functionality.

Holding the stone builds crushing strength that fighting, wrestling, and all combat sports will find beneficial.

“Stuart McGill found that the atlas stone generated the lowest compression of the spine compared to the log and tire because the strongman athletes curved their torsos over the stone, so they kept its center of mass closer to their low backs. Along with all of these benefits, muscle activation levels revealed that the largest gluteal activity occurred during the Atlas Stone, as did the quadriceps, the upper erector spinae, and many of the abdominal muscles in comparison to the log and tire” - Barbend

Regardless of your support using stones once a week or even simply periodically throughout your workouts is a no brainer for functional carry over into real life and sporting events.

This is a multi joint movement that works your entire body at once against external forces in multiple planes of motion.

Start simple by just picking the stone up and walk for time or distance. Really focusing on squeezing your back together NOT your arms.

Jules Bruchez