One leg squat, one arm pull up, training one side of your body for full strength and power

Power of One is a book written to teach unilateral bodyweight skills. The most familiar of those movements are one arm pushup or pull up, one leg squat. There are many others, and the Power of One is here to teach them to you. As you will see in the first chapter of this book, one sided exercises have a variety of uses. One of them is to simulate the athletic skills in strength training

In other words, to make the training functional for a targeted movement or technique. As you know it’s rare that an athlete performs the same skill with both arms/legs at the same time. A ball is thrown with one arm at a time, by a soft ball player. A kick is executed with one leg at a time by a combatant or a soccer player. A handball player slaps the ball with one arm. It only makes sense to train unilaterally if the circumstances allow it.

The other reason for one sided training is gains in strength. Most people who see pushups, rows, squats and other exercises as primary endurance training, won’t say the same about unilateral variations of the same exercises.

The goal of this book is not only to explain how one can convert two legged/two armed skills to one legged/one armed skill. The book actually guides you through the five steps needed to master a unilateral skill.

Power of One is jammed packed with valuable information and more than 300 photos of bodyweight techniques.

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