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I'm probably wrong and that's fine but if crossfit had come up with the bamboo bar with kettlebells idea people would just laugh at them. Because Louie has done it people look at it as the next secret behind a big bench. I personally can't see it as anything apart from a party trick lift.
I first saw it on a Dan John DVD, he did it with chains on a barbell. Which is basically the same principle affecting stabilty, just to a lesser degree. It's definitely not a party trick, but neither is it Secret Weapon X designed by a mad scientist. Just another tool man.
Oh and Crossfit do have SOME good ideas, I just have problems with their coaching, programming, kipping pullups, kipping handstand pushups, Paleo Pretentiousness and their pre-natal training (ie women in their 3rd term doing C+J's).
I first saw it on a Dan John DVD, he did it with chains on a barbell. Which is basically the same principle affecting stabilty, just to a lesser degree.
I actually think it stupid to use the tool as a tool to learn how to do a movement properly with a solid bar, but Hell, I've always been one for specificity.
It sort of reminds me of the "slosh-bar" that was fashionable a few years ago.
as a means to strengthen the "stability muscles" i want someone to point them out to me on an anatomy chart, I can never find the bastards.
I actually think it stupid to use the tool as a tool to learn how to do a movement properly with a solid bar, but Hell, I've always been one for specificity.
It sort of reminds me of the "slosh-bar" that was fashionable a few years ago.
as a means to strengthen the "stability muscles" i want someone to point them out to me on an anatomy chart, I can never find the bastards.
You know what I mean by stabilisers... any muscle that is not a prime mover but is somehow activated in the movment.
Specifity is of course important but anything can go wrong on the platform and this sort of training should help you resist lose off bar bath and help strengthen the muscles that might be put at risk in such a case.
I wouldn't buy one for myself, and probably wouldn't for the gym, you can get strong bench without it. But as said it is just another tool and another method to use.