The landmine is a tool with many different uses. It can be used for upper and lower body exercises for a full body workout.
Because it can be used for full body exercises, you can have just a landmine as your singular piece of equipment. The landmine is also adjustable, meaning you can add or take away resistance depending on your fitness level.
Benefits of Landmine Exercises
- Easier on the joints
- Add variety to your exercises. Helps you stay on track and not get bored.
- Works your core along with your other muscles because of the rotational arc of movement. You need to be able to stabilize your core to perform the exercises and not let the bar go everywhere.
It is a more expensive piece of equipment because you need to have a squat rack and bar as well as the attachment. However you can buy a landmine post and use weights to control it. Check out the options here.
Research
This article shows that the landmine squats are good for balancing hamstring and quadriceps activity. It also shows the Landmine squat and goblet squats are better for different muscle activation. Check it out here for more information.
Landmine Exercises
Shoulder Press
RDL
Rows
Squats
Overhead Twist
Reverse lunge
Lateral raise
Floor Press
Landmine Combination Exercises
Rotational Single arm press
Lunge with press
Thrusters
The landmine is a tool with many different uses, but if you do not want to use a landmine for a full body workout, check out this other blog post here for more.
It may be redundant, but with these exercises listed above, I will perform 3 sets of 10 repetitions. You can also do less sets then build up depending on your fitness level.