Yes…medicine ball training can go way beyond the usual Russian Twist, or from just having your training partner to drop the weighted sphere onto your stomach like you’re used to seeing in all those Rocky movies. With the right knowledge medicine balls can be leveraged to acquire some very serious gains and to help you take your performance to a whole new level.
By: Ryan Krane, MS, CPT, PES, CES Founder, Get My Body Better Online Series The Krane Training Method™ Strengthening one’s hip muscles is extremely important to having total body strength, for eliminating aches and pains, and for preventing injuries. The hip…
A few weeks back at the BRF Kettlebell Strength Clinic I was asked about whether or not I implement timed workouts when training with kettlebells, or if I just prefer programming sets and reps. I thought this was a particularly good question and meant to address it here on the BRF blog so I guess it’s better late than never.
A big part of training that I like to emphasize involves how a trainee might go about his or her conditioning. Conditioning the body involves a wide range of options that run along a spectrum where each end of that spectrum emphasizes two very opposite extremes. Today we’re going to examine what falls in between those two extremes in terms of your conditioning. This is one you don’t want to miss.
One great truth about strength is that it has different faces. I mean who’s stronger…Is it the guy that can squat 700 lbs., or is it the guy that has a 40 inch vertical? Obviously these are both great examples of strength, but the point is that BOTH are very different. Being different is what makes these types of strength so special. Aside from being different both do demonstrate an impressive level of power.
