Regarding SWISS balls And The BOSU ball

[gw5]

Hi Scott,i was wondering what do you think of the swiss ball and the bosu ball?Do you ever incorporate them in your workouts when you train with clubbells?

[Mike]

Hi Scott,i was wondering what do you think of the swiss ball and the bosu ball?Do you ever incorporate them in your workouts when you train with clubbells®?

I'm not Scott but I haven't seen a lot of the people here using the swiss/bosu balls. I have seen the indo board being used by Scott and Dan before though.

I was looking at those things the other day, but talked myself out of buying one, all I need is one of those boards to go crashing through my window!!!

[JasonE]

When training with clubbells, the last thing you want to do is destabilize your surface.

I have used Swiss balls in creative abdominal work, but that's about it. There's a lot more they can be used for, but I wouldn't do Clubbell® exercises while sitting or standing on one.

If you want to work on general balance, it's safer to use the 4 Corner Balance Drill. If you want to develop extreme range balance, the 4CBD is a progression that will develop your balance in extreme ranges of motion like an indo board never could.

The indo board is more for developing sensitivity to the specific balance requirements of riding a shifting plane. This applies to sports like surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and so forth. It's useful if you need that type of sensitivity, but not if you don't.

[Jesse]

One of the most functional (for grappling) movements I train is chest pressing a 140lb medicine ball while lying on a duraball/swissball.

The need to stabalize the medicine ball and the rest of your body while doing so works you all over.

Where were you able to find a 140lb medicine ball?I have looked every where, and the heaviest I could find is the 15lb one that I have.

[Charlie]

this seems like a great idea! Hmm... maybe getting one of the smaller swiss-balls, and filling it with water, or sand might be the way to do it.