How? Set your feet shoulder-width apart and stand right side-on to a cable stack with the pulley set to low. Hold a handle in two hands by the outside of your right thigh and keep your knees slightly bent, shoulders back and lower back neutral. Lift your straight arms up and across your body, twisting your torso at the hips so that your hands end up above your left shoulder. Return slowly under tension and repeat.

Why? ‘Using a cable machine to do a woodchop allows you the freedom to move in a functional way as your body would outside the gym environment,’ says Grantham. ‘And following your own path of movement along this twisting plane of motion makes the exercise specific to improving your sports performance. The woodchop involves the lower body, the midsection and the shoulder complex in a single joined-up move that places your muscles under constant and even tension through the loaded cable.’