I’ve had my Bullworker X5 since the 1980s. It’s a simple design: it consists of a cylinder that contains a powerful spring; with two handles at each end which are held together with double banded nylon straps. Pulling the straps apart forces the handles together and compresses the spring. Alternatively, the handles can be squeezed …
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I’m a huge fan of isometrics and have trained in this fashion for several years. For those unfamiliar with this training concept, it involves pushing or pulling against an immovable object. For instance, imagine standing facing a wall and trying to push the wall away from you for several seconds (like a vertical bench press). …
I stumbled onto isometric training purely by accident. I’m primarily a martial artist and was looking at ways of increasing my strength so that I could dominate larger opponents. I had tried various exercises involving barbells and dumbbells. However, despite numerous months of training, I felt my grappling strength hadn’t necessarily increased. It was after …
As well learning the various techniques involved, much of martial art training involves forging your body into a deadly weapon. This involves conditioning various parts of the body so that it can both deliver and absorb blows of extreme force. Without this training to harden the body, it would be seriously injured on impact. In …
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