There is no shortage of fitness challenge videos on social media, from celebrities showing off their core strength and stability by doing different handstands, to the barbell “cake check” that ensures you’re not skipping leg day, to exercise routines which allegedly improve your performance in the bedroom. The actual value of some of these workouts, however, remain spurious at best, and seem geared more towards acquiring likes and views than building strength.
In a new video which he has shared to TikTok and Instagram, strength coach and Athlean-X founder Jeff Cavaliere C.S.C.S. demonstrates a new feat with some functional fitness validity. It provides a genuine challenge to your core and hips, and while it may look simple, the “broomstick challenge” will prove more more difficult than you might think to complete.
“Every now and then a physical challenge comes along social media that is nothing more than a cute little circus act,” writes Cavaliere. “This one though, has some merit. The broomstick challenge will demand hip mobility, flexibility and core strength in order to execute it.”
Cavaliere starts by standing with his hands clasped behind him, holding the handle of a broom horizontally across his back with his arms. The first portion of the challenge requires him to lower himself all the way to the ground until he is lying horizontally, without moving his hands. (The broom is there to ensure his arms stay in position.)
Next, Cavaliere must raise himself up again into an upright position, first by tucking his legs up under him (a rigorous test of hip mobility) and then hinging his torso upwards, engaging the core, before jumping back up into the standing pose.
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Curious to see whether you’re flexible enough to manage this? Try the broomstick challenge yourself. You might just end up sweeping the room at the same time.
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