Want to bulletproof your body and gain real strength? Join the unilateral-training revolution.
Jay T. Maryniak has gotten used to the stares.
They come whenever he does what looks like a plea for Instagram attention, grabbing a loaded barbell, lying on the floor, then standing and hoisting the barbell overhead with one arm. “It doesn’t bug me,” he says.
That’s because Maryniak, a certified trainer (NASM-CPT, CES), knows what he’s doing. He’s venturing into the world of unilateral training.
Unilateral exercises engage primarily one side of your body to move resistance.
That’s a changeup from classics such as pushups, deadlifts, and military presses.
Those moves make you use your body symmetrically, muscles on both the left and right sides holding similar responsibilities.
