Open versus Closed Kinetic Chain || Personal Trainer Education

If you're studying for your personal trainer certification and struggling with the concept of open versus closed chain exercises then this video is for you!
Checkout the video above and break out your notebook for taking notes as this video breaks down all of the ins-and-outs of this often misunderstood concept.
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[@pelvicangel]

Really appreciate you explaining this, you have explained it so well, now I fully get it.

[@Axiomfitnessacademy]

I'm so glad!

[@sultanmdn2957]

Learned so much with yoy coach, thanks you so much

[@Axiomfitnessacademy]

My pleasure!

[@sultanmdn2957]

@@Axiomfitnessacademy maybe you should make some sample videos of how training session would be depends of phases and diffrent compentations from foam roling to streching...

[@Axiomfitnessacademy]

@@sultanmdn2957 That's the kind of stuff our students get all the time ;-)

[@thefineline641]

Thank you Joe for this - so question - pushing the sled with weight - assuming this is an open-chain exercise? At first I thought closed because the bars of the sled are stationary but now I am thinking it's open-chain???

[@Axiomfitnessacademy]

A sled push would be a closed-chain exercise because you are moving the sled by putting force into the ground.

[@IneVerhelst]

What about a leg press machine?

[@Axiomfitnessacademy]

Open chain exercise.

[@hayleekillman4623]

So, open kinetic chain exercises are not something that you’re using whether it a machine , db, barbell, but not connected to the ground..

[@Axiomfitnessacademy]

Hi Haylee! We like to think of closed-chain exercises as one where you're pushing into a stable object like the ground, whereas open-chain exercises are where you're pushing yourself (or weight) into space.