 Hey everybody, it's Eric Johnson from irritator's nation and in today's video, we're gonna talk about some differences in the weight room. We're jumping from inside the circle back into the gym. So I got a real special guest today, Nick Petrucci. Nick Petrucci is a doctor of physical therapy. He is also a former world-class discus thorse. Just recently has a patent pending new training tool and it's super awesome and I immediately with the way we train in our training philosophy thought it was just an absolute awesome tool. I could see it being such a valuable thing for all kinds of athletes and people who are just into general fitness and why it's gonna be so cool. And then we're gonna have James do some demo and I'll probably put it on as well and do some old man style stuff, but really cool. So take it over for us, Nick. Yeah, so we'll save another video to get in the specifics of the moment arm, but essentially the inspiration was to decrease lower back stress and resistance training. What separates it from everything in the weight room is the torque on the body. The load here is gonna be behind you. Right. So, and there's a fulcrum at the shoulder. So when you fill the load here, it's gonna take you into an extension torque and it forces you into a flexion torque. So you end up into a hinge. So there's really nothing in the weight room is just we're working like a new dimension of mechanics that you can essentially do it with like a loaded backpack or you can only, or a rucksack or something like that, but you can only load those so much. This thing can handle upwards to 500, but... You can need to work up to that. Yeah, not only that, it's gonna affect balance completely. Again, with the barbell lifts on squat, deadlift, although basically the torque, if you can imagine, I'm holding the barbell, it takes you into that flexion. So it takes you onto your forefoot so you compensate or adapt by going under the hill. You hear that all the time, stay back on your heels. Again, this is opposite. So this is gonna take you under your heels. One of the things I thought that was super cool, as soon as you did it and you explain it, you put it on, again, because it's pulling you back on your heels and you have to naturally kind of engage, like you said, and create that hinge action, it really, I find it's neutralizing the weight through your foot the way you would optimally want anybody doing their squat or pulling off the floor on a clean or a deadlift. So it's immediate core engagement. It's like automatically correcting and preventing bad mechanics. Show me, set up a vertical jump and stop at the bottom. Boom. So we all end up here. So this is athletic position. This is a sport, very powerful position to set up. Also, when you jump, you need to absorb it into that. You know what, if you land, stiff. Right. And that's one of the things when you let me try it out, I put it on and immediately jump. It immediately forces you to land right because you're going to counter that. And I know as a, the strength and conditioning coach and a throws coach that every year when we go through that, I always have to teach jump mechanics. And if you have something that's automatically making that correction, I thought that was gold. You know, that was fantastic. So again, let's just work on the hinge squat. Again, squeeze, smash the melon, stab your thighs. Here you go. That's it. So if you look at the side alignment, really aligns the strome over the knee, over the toe. Nice and balanced. Essentially, as we mentioned, so imagine a barbell, just like a high bar back squat. So if he was in this posture, the line of force will be directly down to the ground. The axis is going to be your lower back. Right. So if you draw that line here, that perpendicular line to that axis is basically the size of your moment arm. Okay. So if you compare it to the line of force, right, the DRX, it's way more posterior. So it shortens that moment arm substantially. You feel it? Oh yeah. So you're really feeling your hips and your glutes a lot more, right? Plus your core is totally firing. First thing I feel is the hips and then the core starts to come in and then as I'm doing down, really feel the glutes. Good. And everything just here, down, just firing. Okay, here we go. Before you do it, just... Look at Nick. He's always worried. Okay. Yeah, you're right. See, this is what I forget. I'm getting old and I gotta do this shit. Dude. Yeah. This thing feels, okay. And you don't need much weight to really feel the movement. Right? It is a different feel, but... Be sure to check out our next videos. Be sure to subscribe. Visit our website for free videos. Click the links below. We have links to our free mini course. Check out our websites for camps and different detailed information. Throw farther faster by understanding the science with the Throwing Chain Reaction System. Thanks so much for watching.