The Wood Chop Exercise: Benefits, How-To, Muscles Worked

Benefits of the wood chop exercise

The wood chop exercise offers several benefits which include:

1. It simultaneously strengthens and stabilizes the several muscles in the trunk, hips, and shoulders
2. It is a functional movement used in daily activities such as shoveling and lifting a child in and out of a car
3. People that are unable to lie on the floor for core work (pregnant women in their second and third trimester) can use wood chop because it provides an option to work the trunk muscles effectively.
4. This exercise can be done using different resistance tools which include dumbbells [2], a cable machine, and a resistance band.