Ultimate Sandbag Training and Imperfection
It may seem odd at first to strive for anything other than perfection, whether Ultimate Sandbag Training or any type of fitness program . Yet, being imperfect may be a very important part of long-term success in your fitness training. What am I talking about? When we talk about imperfection we aren’t talking about your technique, but aspects of training that really can accelerate your goals!
While the Soviets dominated the Olympics for much of the 60’s to the fall of the Soviet Union, the science of their sports training has always been a focus of their success. One of the more interesting ideas was the concept of “imperfection training”. This concept was such an important part of training that two of the industry’s top scientists and coaches, Dr. Mel Siff and Dr. Yuri Verkhoshansky, discussed it in their book “Supertraining”.
“All-round sports training must include the capability of coping with unexpected and sub-optimal conditions. In certain sports where accidents or unexpected situations often occur, such as the martial arts, parachuting and motor racing, participants are taught how to cope with events that can have serious consequences. This type of preparation needs to be adopted far more extensively in all sports so that the athlete is able to anticipate threatening situations, react much more rapidly to unexpected circumstances, take action to avoid or minimize injury, and cope with sub-optimal conditions by practicing with imperfectly executed movements.”
Does Fitness and Ultimate Sandbag Training Need to Be Imperfect?
This sounds great if you are an athlete, but how does this apply to your fitness goals and Ultimate Sandbag Training? Using imperfection training in different ways can challenge your body in new ways allowing you to finally blast those plateaus, teach the body to work more efficiently allowing you burn more calories and build more lean muscle. Sounds interesting but how do you accomplish these goals?
One really nice aspect of Ultimate Sandbag Training is that you can have an Ultimate Sandbag that moves and shift, just in this respect you are adding an element of imperfection because all other fitness equipment is static. However, one of my favorite means in using Ultimate Sandbag Training to create imperfection is the new patterns and exercises we can create within our fitness workouts. A great example of this is Ultimate Sandbag Training Cyclone Exercise. Made up of Shoveling and Around the World, we begin to use Ultimate Sandbag Training outside of the up and down pattern (sagittal plane) that most fitness programs are a a prisoner to. Our Ultimate Sandbag Training exercises start to hit positions and angles of our body that previously weren’t possible and badly missed. Leaving giant gaps in our strength, endurance, mobility, and all around fitness.
Of course the key to learn such Ultimate Sandbag Training exercises correctly. That is why we are very strict in our Dynamic Variable Resistance Program about teaching proper progressions. This allows you to build successfully to these exercises and more importantly if you follow the progressions such as in today’s Ultimate Sandbag Training clinic you won’t believe how fast you learn what seems to be complex exercises!
