Decided this was formidable enough to bring over here from ye olde instagram.
Landmine Appreciation Post:
I’m slowly trudging my way back to feeling like I know my body (this is 5 1/2 months post partum) but really have been so grateful for all the landmine work @megsi072 has been gracing me with.
A short list of reasons landmines are your post partum frenz:
1) ego-less strength training - most humans don’t have landmine PRs in their heads and especially post partum, this helps!
2) anterior core emphasis (i.e. the part of you that just got blown open…)
3) loads of rotational stability in all the planes happening depending on what movement you’re crushing (the bar is always trying to roll down or away from you…)
4) stability training with just the right amount of reference to give you instability with a weird constant perception of symmetry (and, as @tonygentilcore has noted in his post on landmine training, an easy reference for beginners starting to hinge or press)
5) SPEAKING OF PRESSING - post baby shoulders are hellaciously tight and tired - landmine presses buttress you against anything truly uncalled for during this time of high shoulder stress
6) as shown in the second vid here - the lever arm can change easily which makes landmine training lovely for grip training (you can hold the sleeve or the shaft of the bar), simple and slight variations in load, and HEY you too can use your old self-embroidered lifting straps like this
7) accessibility: I use a poor man’s landmine set up here - barbell on a very used Airex pad and I’ve honestly never missed the fancier set ups.
Anyway, landmines, I love you.