Speaking of med-ball rebounds, has anyone tried the “Passback” football. I just bought a couple of these for our receivers to work on their hands. These things work great. You can throw a spiral at a wall, and the thing spirals back to you. The ball is weighted properly and feels like a real football.
Lots of fun. Highly recommend it. I personally use it in the squash courts near my weight room just to entertain myself.
Most of my ab work is of this nature. I can easily rack up 300-400 reps in about 5-6min.
Video of a couple of my players performing the ground based abdominal work and med ball rebounds in real time; 1 series each.
They go at their own pace in terms of rest interval between movements and reps average 40-50 per move with a couple exceptions in which the movement is performed for half the reps on one side then half on the other.
http://sharing.theflip.com/session/66330892f0f11bd24fffdce884052aea/video/12257862
lol to each their own. I’d rather spend my time doing something productive than aiming to hit the highest possible numbers. Still didn’t hit the averages claimed anyway.
Correct, to each their own; however, perhaps you want to re-think your words as it seems you are implying that the work is not productive and that the goal is hitting the highest possible numbers.
You are incorrect on both counts and your comment regarding the averages claimed implies you have repeatedly overlooked the fact that I implied the work is completed in “approximate” amounts of time. Additionally, this video was taken today, during spring ball, so the volume is greatly decreased relative to where it was last block.
Me sharing this information has nothing to do with ‘look how many reps we perform’ and everything to do with look how easy it is to accumulate a higher volume of quality work that offers multiple benefits at a low cost.
Volume of tapping a medicine ball against a wall with a 2" ROM =/= volume of classical abdominal exercises as discussed in CFTS and elsewhere.
As I stated earlier, regarding the limited movement amplitudes: it would benefit you to study the benefits of dynamic stabilization and perturbation training.
Similarly, I’d recommend that you give this type of exercise a shot a I think you would continue to include it in your own training.
Regarding how to account for the workload, it would be rookie on your behalf to assume I haven’t carefully done this already and rookie for me not to have carefully done this already.
I consulted with John Gray Ph D, who studied under Stuart McGill, 6 years ago. Rest assured that there’s nothing careless happening on my behalf.
To see what we do, get the med ball workout video from the site store.
Love the exercises though could do with a few posteral changes in all but the last exercise, great position to do the squats in.
My humble opinion
No problem with the ab movements but those MB drills look too slow…
why?
too short??
Don’t know, the ball could be too heavy or maybe James want them to be slower. I prefer to use CF methods, 4-8lbs ball - rapid fire. We use 6 different movements for 20reps @ 3sets for 3rds for a total of 1080. It’s a race and each week I would like to see the sets/rds take less time.
The stuff on CF is a bit too high for beginners, they have to learn the basics before going high performance.
my humble opinion
It’s all a function of desired training effect. Our method of execution is accomplishing the objective of extensive reactive/elastic work and the associated adaptations I’ve addressed previously.
I encourage all to give this method a shot and see for yourself.
Rest assured that I don’t have my athletes perform one single training component that isn’t strongly justified and orthopedically sound.
What are you talking about?
Charlie, I own the video and I have applied it multiple times with very satisfying results. It is hard as hell, especially the lumbar exercises (I don’t seem to adapt to them). How do you fit it in the training plan of high-level sprinters (so reduced GPP with respect to what presented in the GPP video) ? I remember you said that 3 rounds would be approximately 50 minutes, so a good option would be tempo days during the short GPP phase of high level sprinters, am I right?
I remember also that in another thread you said that you trained a hockey player (in off-season) who never lifted weights before by using as strenght exercise only med-ball exercises. So only medball exercises as shown in the video plus explosive med ball throws? Was the sequence (extensive + explosive) like the one you showed in the med ball video?
I have no issues with the exercises in the videos or the volume claimed. However these are not full situps, and I would still like to see a forum member post vid of themselves doing 1000 situps in 20 minutes or less.
James,
Thanks for posting the videos.
Is it accurate to say that this is an example of indirect conditioning for the power/speed athlete without losing site of the elastic/reactive demands of sport?
Ollie, the work furthers the dynamic stabilization ability of the active musculature, and joint structures, via the perturbations. This is particularly beneficial to the shoulder girdle, torso, and hip girdle relative to heightening the durability of the associated tissues relative to sport demands.
The extensive nature locally supports the training of the aerobic properties of the active musculature and generally supports the maintenance, or development depending on the movement rate, of general work capacity.
The reactive/elastic method of execution of the med ball rebounds serves as supportive role relative to sport demands and how the active structures are stressed.
The ground based abdominal work is, posturally/orthopedically consistent with McGills guidelines and, once again, the small movement amplitudes and regime of muscle activity are similar to the way in which the abdominal muscular functions, primarily as a stabilizer and force transducer, during field based sprinting, deceleration, changing direction and so on. The extensive nature of this work, along with the volume, serves to improve general work capacity as well.