Welcome back to the Moto Strong Blog, where I share my training tips to improve your riding skills and fitness! Today's topic is part three of the Foundational Movements for Motocross series and today's blog is all about the horizontal push. The Why The horizontal push is incredibly important during riding because of the high forces subjected to the rider's upper body when encountering large jumps, landings, and hard G-outs. I feel as though the main component here is the eccentric strength of a rider's chest and triceps muscles due to the need to keep a neutral position on the bike when hitting a jump face, landing, creek bed, braking bumps, etc. With poor upper body strength, a rider subjects themselves to the possibility to slam the chest into the handlebars, lose grip with the handlebars, and even go over the bars during a hard hit. While it's important to have strength concentrically (to push your upper body away from the handlebars), the eccentric component ta...
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