ATHLEAN-X Gym Tour (STEP INSIDE!)

Train with the same programs the pros use here

What’s up guys? Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX. COM. You’ve asked for it. I’m going to do it here today.

It’s the 4th of July weekend so it’s a good time to step back and take a little bit of a break and give you guys a tour of the new ATHLEAN-X Gym here the X BOX, that you guys have been asking about. You’ve noticed it in the training videos, you want to know a little bit more about it. Well I figured I’d take you through so I could show you why I selected what I selected. And give you an idea of what this place looks like, you know. First of all, we’ve got a tract here of Turf.

And when I’m training teams in here, it gives me a good open run to do Sled Pushes, or to do Sprints or just a good open area to do any kind of Ab work where we need some extra space. But this is our big, sort of tract of Turf. Then we have, of course our display screen here. There’s a lot of cool things that I can actually do on that display screen. For the guys that have any of our programs, they know that I spend a lot of time at that board.

It’s basically a large Telestrator. So I can actually break down, something I haven’t done yet is actually take somebody’s performance, film one of my Athletes doing, let’s say a Squat and then draw and physically show the most important parts about their form, and break it all down there, sort of like an NFL Telestrator type effect. And that’s a very helpful thing. And starting right here in the corner, we basically have our, first of all, we have our ATHLEAN-RX Supplements here. They’re always on hand here.

Guys that train with me know how important I think nutrition and supplementation is, especially in and around your workout. So we basically have our RX1, 2 in the back there, Post Workout, Pre Workout over here and Nighttime Recovery and of course, our Athletes, while they’re here, with what I feel is obviously, only the best in Sports Nutrition. Then we have our Kettlebell racks, some Slam Balls, some miscellaneous, you know med balls right at the bottom. Right off the bat, well first of all you’re going to notice, that there’s always Sports on here. I mean this is what I do for a living so here my beloved Mets.

Of course you’ve got to pull for them and rout for them. They’re here playing the LA Dodgers. But in the background here we have our Woodway Treadmill. And the Woodway, for those of you who are familiar with the treadmills, is definitely the best in the game. There’s a reason why it’s here.

Because this training environment was meant to be equal to the best in the game. I spent many years in Major League Clubhouses and got used to the fact that, the best pieces of equipment were offered to the players so that they could train at their highest level. Well I wanted to make sure that the same exact thing was available to the guys that train with me here. So there’s no step down from what they’re used to training with. This Woodway Treadmill, the greatest part about it is this belt doesn’t go on a deck.

There’s no deck under here. So it’s basically suspended on air. So that allows us to have a really nice cushioned surface, very low impact, safe, feels good for all the Athletes that run on it. So that’s why this is here. Next we have a Glute/Ham Raise.

Now the Glute/Ham piece is a great opportunity for us to do Closed Chain Hamstring Training because our feet can be in contact there with that backplate. And more importantly than that it gives us to train Hamstrings and Glutes together. And I talk about all the time about trainings those two muscle groups together because they’re meant to train together and basically drive the entire Posterior Chain by working together. And the guys that train Hamstrings in isolation are the guys that wind up having many many Hamstring injuries. Something that we work a great deal on here trying to prevent, is Hamstring injuries.

One of the most common injuries in Sports. And even just for our weekend warriors, Hamstrings can be a big deal and a problematic thing. Not if you’re training the right way and getting your Glutes to work with your Hamstrings. So we have our rack of Dumbbells, you’ve probably seen these appear in previous videos. One thing you’ll notice, yeah I’m pretty damn anal about how these things go back in the racks.

I put them back in the order that their supposed to be in. And I don’t know why in most commercial gyms, people can’t figure that out but it’s pretty simple, they go from 5 all the way down there, up to 100 down here. And they just go up every 5 pounds. So if you can count you can put them back in the right way. Here is a Lat Pulldown Machine.

I certainly love Pull Ups and I do a lot of weighted Pull Ups. But I just love the ability to lock myself in here on a Lat Pulldown and pull a lot of weight. And it’s a low profile machine, it doesn’t have a lot of width to it so it fits in nicely in this gym. It’s just one of the pieces that I like to include. Here, this is a remnant from what I actually had back from a few videos ago and I kept it.

Because it gives me the chance to still have the Roman Chair setup but it was the Pull Up Bar until the rest of the stuff came in. Which I’ll show you in a second. But this Roman Chair setup I actually use still to do our Boxer Ab routine. I’ll link it over here if you haven’t seen it already. It’s our routine that we use, it’s a Crusher but it works best off of a Roman Chair so we kept it.

Here this is my machine that was sort of like a special order piece for me. It’s sort of my and some of my older Athletes, it’s a Perfect Squat is what they call it, but what this allows me to do is, face in this way and basically put the pads on my shoulders so it creates an environment where I can actually do Hands Free Squatting. So for me, I don’t know if however long you’ve been watching me, but I have a pretty messed up set of Knees. They’ve been beaten up and bashed from doing years of bad training, probably the number one impetus for why I created the ATHLEANX Training System in the first place and why I even became a Physical Therapist, was to try to learn more about maybe the shit I did wrong for many many years and fix it. And help others fix that now.

The Perfect Squat allows me to actually brace my own Knees, give my Patellar Tendons a little bit of extra support because that my hands don’t have to be on a bar, and I can still load up, with this plate loaded machine, do some heavy Squatting but give my Knees a little bit of a break. And it doesn’t compromise your form like a Smith Machine does because your body can move in any plane here as this thing arcs down. Alright so this upper piece will arc in the direction that you like to move in. This is just a big overhead door, allows us to get the equipment in here. It can open up on a nice day.

Got a True Bike here. Another way for me to train my Legs in a way that I can still do a sort of a low impact approach but also train my Legs just by making that resistance a little bit higher. So obviously a little bit more of a lighter training effect there. But that’s ok, it’s still another conditioning option as well. Here you notice the Landmine setup and I’ll link that video again right over here where I gave you some unique Chest exercises you could actually do with an Olympic Bar Landmine setup.

And if you haven’t seen that video, you’re going to want to watch it. But this is a great piece and it’s attached right to sort of the Holy Grail of the whole place which is our Double Rack setup. And our racks here are custom made, you can see they’re made in our black and red colors and this is the best that it gets in the business. They don’t make anything heavier duty here and again I’ve talked about, there’s some guys training in this gym with me, some pretty strong assed guys, I need my equipment to be able to stand up to the punishment that those guys can dish out. And these racks do just