An Excellent Workout-- try it

Leonodas · Aug 4th 2012, 12:46am

Just wanted to be helpful in case you guys are stuck on ideas for workouts. There's this one I'm doing, it's freaking amazing.

What you have to do, is get a tire. Any tire will do. Then, pick a place in your backyard that is open and not in the middle of everything. Then, fill up the tire (the middle) with sand. Finally, get a sledgehammer, and hammer away. Remember to alternate which hands are where, and make sure you are swinging it right. A few sets of these will work out your whole body.

I remember hearing about some famous boxer doing it. Just something to look into.

LeedKhan · Aug 4th 2012, 1:14am

I'd rather just workout different parts of your body more effectively.

Leonodas · Aug 4th 2012, 1:20am

LeedKhan wrote:

I'd rather just workout different parts of your body more effectively.

Trust me, this is an excellent supplement.

YO_VANILLA · Aug 4th 2012, 2:23am

What you need to do is get yourself a tire that weighs a few hundred pounds so you can flip and other stuff like that.

Asphalto · Aug 4th 2012, 8:53pm

That's a workout "used" by many fighters (MMA fighters)... At least, that's what they do when the cam is recording them

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOXAsbuuocc]MMA TRAINING - motivation video - YouTube[/ame]

I never tried it, actually, and even though it's probably a good exercise, i daresay that many of the people in that (and other) video use a sledgehammer only while being recorded... Otherwise, they just lift, lift and lift

Anyway, since you already tried it, what are the main muscles involved? I mean, it looks to me like it's mainly a cardio exercise, and well, it also improves your grip (so your forearm), but, apart from that, I don't see many other muscles involved!

LeedKhan · Aug 4th 2012, 9:04pm

Asphalto wrote:

That's a workout "used" by many fighters (MMA fighters)... At least, that's what they do when the cam is recording them

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MMA TRAINING - motivation video - YouTube

I never tried it, actually, and even though it's probably a good exercise, i daresay that many of the people in that (and other) video use a sledgehammer only while being recorded... Otherwise, they just lift, lift and lift
Anyway, since you already tried it, what are the main muscles involved? I mean, it looks to me like it's mainly a cardio exercise, and well, it also improves your grip (so your forearm), but, apart from that, I don't see many other muscles involved!

Maybe back?

Leonodas · Aug 5th 2012, 5:41am

Arms, shoulders, back, abdomen, legs. If you do the swinging motion right, it works out everything.

Asphalto · Aug 5th 2012, 8:18am

Yeah, of course many muscles are involved, but there's not a focus on any of them..
I mean, if you do bench press, you can expect to involve many different muscles, but the ones you're focusing on are the pecs: i guess it's the same here, right?

YO_VANILLA · Aug 5th 2012, 8:23am

Asphalto wrote:

Yeah, of course many muscles are involved, but there's not a focus on any of them..
I mean, if you do bench press, you can expect to involve many different muscles, but the ones you're focusing on are the pecs: i guess it's the same here, right?

If you use proper technique its works your core more than anything else

lov3ly · Aug 5th 2012, 8:30am

Wow, may try this!

Dr Jimmy Rustles · Aug 5th 2012, 11:24pm

Asphalto wrote:

That's a workout "used" by many fighters (MMA fighters)... At least, that's what they do when the cam is recording them

@ 0.15
MMA TRAINING - motivation video - YouTube

I never tried it, actually, and even though it's probably a good exercise, i daresay that many of the people in that (and other) video use a sledgehammer only while being recorded... Otherwise, they just lift, lift and lift
Anyway, since you already tried it, what are the main muscles involved? I mean, it looks to me like it's mainly a cardio exercise, and well, it also improves your grip (so your forearm), but, apart from that, I don't see many other muscles involved!

I'd say it may work explosiveness more than anything.

Sweet637 · Aug 6th 2012, 1:57am

I still prefer swimming

Leonodas · Aug 6th 2012, 3:22am

Sweet637 wrote:

I still prefer swimming

Truedat, that's the best thing you can do. If only I had a pool... >:(

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