Protect your back by taking a wide stance and getting low, digging your fingers under the tyre and driving up through your glutes.
Often, we’re forced to make a decision between doing something that makes us look good, or something that makes us move well. And when you’re faced with that choice, it’s all too tempting to go for the former. There are, however, some things you can do that will give you the benefits of both – flipping really big tyres, for example.
“Tyre flips are a full-body stimulator,” explains strength coach Jack Lovett. “There isn’t a single muscle this exercise won’t recruit and strengthen – including your stabilising muscles – in a way that traditional barbell and dumbbell movements can’t.