Ultimate Sandbag Training Changes Everything About Core Training
People seemed to LOVE the Ultimate Sandbag Training core exercises we showed early this week and don’t worry Olive came back to help us shoot some great workouts for all of you! What seems to be resonate with so many people is that they can accomplish several goals with the Ultimate Sandbag Training and guess what? Being fun too is not a bad reason too!
So Why Is Ultimate Sandbag Training Core Exercises Different?
A lot of core training has people stuck on the ground, the truth is we often have to show our core strength standing and moving. Sure some of these exercises are great such as planks, however, for many this is where they stop! Ultimate Sandbag Training takes us to the next evolution of core training because we pose a lot of different challenges to the body both in the form of changing body position and how we combine changing how Ultimate Sandbag Training places a moving and new weight to the body. In other words, Ultimate Sandbag Training challenges the body’s ability to maintain posture in a lot of different ways, probably the best demonstration of true functional training.
How is this any different than what barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells, heck even medicine balls provide? Barbells tend to only be able to load our bodies front and back (sagittal plane), dumbbells can add a bit more side to side (frontal plane) but are static and predictable in their movement patterns, medicine balls can move in many planes of motion, but are limited in their ability to provide load. Kettlebells are largely founded in the sagittal plane as well and because of their off-center of gravity, they are harder to create progressive multi-planar exercises. Ultimate Sandbag Training blends the best of all of these, but more importantly provides us NEW options.
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Ultimate Sandbag Training core exercises fall into several categories:
-Maintaining posture with different holding positions such as shoulder squat, zercher lunge, etc.
-Maintaining posture while the Ultimate Sandbag is moving around the body such as rotational lunge, half moon snatches, and around the worlds.
-Combining these two principles in movements such as rotational lunge to snatch lunge, shoulder to shoulder staggered squat thruster, etc.
Now you can see core training is beyond a crunch or a sit-up, however, it is also far beyond simply just performing planks either! The future of core training is now and Ultimate Sandbag training may offer you the best progressions and drills to accomplish your goals.
Im using rice rather than sand. I bought a large bag and broke it down to 2 lb increments that I could add or subtract as necessary. Am I defeating the purpose by having individual bags in the big bag rather than having the rice in the big bag alone
Debbie,
With Ultimate Sandbag Training you don’t have to go by small increments like two pounds, even five pounds isn’t necessary unless you just change it for a few weeks at that weight. With changing body position and load position you can manipulate how the Ultimate Sandbag feels. If you wish to go through a strength based phase for two weeks then you can make it heavier. If you want to go through more of a conditioning phase then make it lighter and work on more of a speed and complexity of movement. Make sense?