Doug Szolek
10-10-2003, 12:11 AM
If only there were an Emoticon with a Monocle :twisted:
In any case, I went back to my bruiser drawing board looking for another killer whole body blaster and this time, I think I out did myself.
Clockwork Squats:
-for the purposes of this description all gripping will be done with a Right Grip, that is how a righty would grab a baseball bat.
-begin holding the Clubbell in Chest Park with a Right Grip, leaning the Clubbell against your right pec.
-turn your body just about 45 degrees and launch the Clubbell up at an outward 45 degree to your body, as if you were starting an Outward Pendulum
-let your trunk sway/twist as you track the Clubbell through it's downward arc across your body
-as it rises in the opposite side arc pull it in to catch it in shoulder park and just as it touches down sink into a rock bottom squat.
-as you rise back out of the squat use your upward momentum to launch it back into the arc that got it to that shoulder previously
-continue side to side and expect some DOMS across your upper back and throughout your core the day after working these
-Be sure to work from both grips in both directions to keep from training asymmetry.
As you might be able to tell, this exercise works off of a Two-Handed Pendulum. I developed this out of the ideas that I've been having for two-handed Bruiser Clubbell work based off of the Indian Gada. It seems like there is a whole sub-section of exercises for the Bruiser to be worked like this with two hands.
Hope you enjoy these as much as I do.
In any case, I went back to my bruiser drawing board looking for another killer whole body blaster and this time, I think I out did myself.
Clockwork Squats:
-for the purposes of this description all gripping will be done with a Right Grip, that is how a righty would grab a baseball bat.
-begin holding the Clubbell in Chest Park with a Right Grip, leaning the Clubbell against your right pec.
-turn your body just about 45 degrees and launch the Clubbell up at an outward 45 degree to your body, as if you were starting an Outward Pendulum
-let your trunk sway/twist as you track the Clubbell through it's downward arc across your body
-as it rises in the opposite side arc pull it in to catch it in shoulder park and just as it touches down sink into a rock bottom squat.
-as you rise back out of the squat use your upward momentum to launch it back into the arc that got it to that shoulder previously
-continue side to side and expect some DOMS across your upper back and throughout your core the day after working these
-Be sure to work from both grips in both directions to keep from training asymmetry.
As you might be able to tell, this exercise works off of a Two-Handed Pendulum. I developed this out of the ideas that I've been having for two-handed Bruiser Clubbell work based off of the Indian Gada. It seems like there is a whole sub-section of exercises for the Bruiser to be worked like this with two hands.
Hope you enjoy these as much as I do.