Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / core
Cable Woodchoppers
Set cable high or low, brace hips, and rotate ribs through the diagonal path.
Muscles
- Primary
- obliques
- Supporting
- transverse abdominis, quadratus lumborum
Mechanics
- Pattern
- rotation
- Equipment
- cable, band
- Geometry
- 180° Core Alignment
- Energy model
- Glycolytic Pathway (10-90s)
- Target feel
- Obliques create rotation while hips stay controlled.
- Progression
- Add range before stack weight.
- Regression
- Use a band and smaller diagonal.
Watch for
- Pulling with arms only
- Letting knees collapse
Substitutions
- Russian Twists
- Pallof press
- Medicine ball rotational throw