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The dumbest exercise in history.
I’m putting this video up, for no other reason than humour. I can’t think of what else it would achieve. Seriously, take a look and feel free to cringe.
This is the kind of Crap they try and teach at Fitness First to the Personal Trainers.
Gladly, i don’t have to listen to the dribble that comes out of their mouths and i can train my clients the Correct way.
Please, no one attempt these foolish maneuvers. WOW. 
I like the part about how you shouldn’t try it unless supervised. As if having a coach watch you jump on top of that thing is going to keep you from killing yourself. Maybe they just figure someone should be around to call the ambulance.
That first one would be awesome if it were a competition. Line up a bunch of guys next to each other and have them race across. It would be like that Japanese show where the guys race across those things above the water and slip and take some brutal shots. I don’t look for it, but if I come across it, I definitely watch for a few minutes.
And are you sure those exercises aren’t any good? They have long and impressive names, so there must be something to them.
Funny. Reminds me of this quote –
“A man of true science uses but few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purposes; whereas the smatterer in science thinks that by mouthing hard words he proves that he understands hard things.” Herman Melville
I think that at our next sprint workout I will tell the kids that we are going to work on “neuro-kinetic hyperbolic maximizations.” That should impress them with my knowledge. :rolleyes:
What’s that mean, coach?
That means we are going to go fast today, Johnny.
blow an ACL or MCL. It’s almost criminal stupidity. It’a neat party trick, but showing impressionable kid’s this crap on youtube… I think I am going to work my proprioneuralmyofibrillarmechanism in a minute.
Your right, it does. I wonder what sport that guy trains for. It’s one of the most popular sports in the world; The “gym rat, no actual field sporting ability, try crazy new exercises and look like the top guru (to the inexperianced), that has no medals or champions sport.”
It’s seems to be a very popular sport that is spreading like a disease throughout the worlds gyms. It is an apocalyptic monster that is causing confusion and miss leading all the world. Ok, maybe I’m going a bit far with the apocalyptic prophecy (lol).
Anytime an exercise is labeled as ‘extremely dangerous’ that’s probably a good sign that it’s not a good exercise.
should send him the link to Cressey on his book about “The Truth about Unstable Surface Training”. I hate watching these idiots do some stunt and suddenly their training is the “IT” thing. Never mind that it goes against science and common sense.
Neither of those exercises look that dangerous to me (if I were to perform them). However, the fact that there’s still some risk (I’d probably fall off the second exercise every once in a while) negates ANY potential gain, though there probably isn’t any gain that can’t be safely obtained.
I still think http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP4-0aPcpOk is worse than both of those.
Edit: While searching for other hare-brained exercises I found the following, which if you don’t know what it is (and I didn’t), looks extremely stupid right up until he does it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGT-EXhnUYs&feature=related
I also think that “stabilization” (spelling?) is grosly miss-interpreted, miss-construed and miss-everything else.
Since when does a football player, track athlete, volleyball, basketball, or even wrestler / martial artist ever jump on to a wobble board. It has no sports application at all. It is a useless skill, which merely highlights humans ability to learn knew motor skills. But it is a useless skill.
There are only two tangents on stabilization.
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The first can be accomplished by foot work drills such as carrioca (if your sport requires).
And other drills which are even more spacific, such as playing the actuall sport. -
The second tangent is developed by improving core strength, which is developed by any exercise where you are not laying or sitting down.
What are we going to see next? Drop push ups on to two wobble boards with your feet on a high chair (in order to develope your punching power or bench press) lol, lol and more lol.
Quick Goose - run to the patent office before someone steals your idea for training MMA fighters!
one of the local high schools I happen to work with are in love with Barwis style training. They love the wobble board squatting and in 2 yrs have had 2 MCL tears. Most kid’s (high school and college) are challenged enough to squat with proper bio-mechanics on the ground let alone a board. My kids flat out tell their coaches no when asked to do them. A read a recent study online that showed a group who trained in isometric stability performed worse than a group who just trained heavy. Also, a study that showed Tai Chi showed no bearing on balance in the elderly. I think it’s a tool in the process of training athletes, but shouldn’t be the basis for a training program. Athletes move over a stable ground, not unstable. All these videos do is perpetuate idiotic training. We as coaches should have injury prevention as our number one priority. If you injure an athlete severely in the process, you should wither recuse yourself or be fired.
Since this thread is mostly about stupid training on swiss balls here’s some videos of a world cup skier who, if he continues training like this, won’t be one for much longer.
The forces you got when jumping on a ball is nothing compared to what you get by going down a hill in 60mph.
Hitting a tree at 20mph is preferable to hitting one at 60mph. Does that mean it should be done?
This is just great. I can’t stop watching the A.J. Bear one.