Is anyone else sick of trying get through a set without giggling because some scrawny guy is falling all over himself trying to do some weird new swiss ball exercises his trainer invented? Because today some ass was using one with a cable cross to train his, well, who knows what, and it was really hard for me to concentrate on my upright rows.
And if the laughing is’t bad enough, every time I try to use the stretching/ab work area of my gym I have to keep moving around to get away from another person who is now up to thirty minutes a day of rolling around like a moron and still doesn’t have visible abs.
If you hate those damned balls as much as I do, try this: start calling them bitch balls. Casually slip it into conversation with people at the gym: “I sure am glad I stopped messing around with bitch balls, now I have more time for squats and I look better, too.” Maybe, just maybe we can make this catch on and those damned things will go away.
Now why would you want to get rid of the comic relief these things provide? I work out at home, so I don’t have to deal with other people’s shit, but they just seem funny to me. I’ve seen a couple of great youtube videos of people busting their asses on those things.
I guess it’s not safe to start laughing during a heavy set though.
I have nothing personally against the Swiss, they do make great chocolate. But if you have seen the Swiss Guard in their clown suits “protecting the Pope,” with their handy little “Swiss Army Knives,” you can understand they are not a people ripe with testosterone.
Thus it is not entirely surprising they reinvented an overgrown beach ball into an piece of exercise equipment. Connect it to the "Revolution to Correct Our Cores," and you have a modern day phenomenon.
How do I really feel about them? I just went to five gyms in town looking for a platform to lift on. Not a single gym had a platform, but EVERY gym had a minimum of twenty five multicolored, different sized Swiss Balls. The apocolypse is upon us.
Doc
I’m big and strong and I am proud to use the swiss ball for some exercises. I
really don’t care much about being sexy in the gym except when there’s women around:)
I used it ala Charles Poliquin. He incorporates it in very useful ways. Mainly for abs, curls, and DB presses. I shunned the ball for many years but I’ll tell you, I was sore as hell after I used one. I was doing just a whole bunch of ab exercises and my abs never got sore. Then I tried the swiss ball, just a few sets, and my abs were devastated…sore for a whole week.
[quote]Hagar wrote:
I’m big and strong and I am proud to use the swiss ball for some exercises. I
really don’t care much about being sexy in the gym except when there’s women around:)
I used it ala Charles Poliquin. He incorporates it in very useful ways. Mainly for abs, curls, and DB presses. I shunned the ball for many years but I’ll tell you, I was sore as hell after I used one. I was doing just a whole bunch of ab exercises and my abs never got sore. Then I tried the swiss ball, just a few sets, and my abs were devastated…sore for a whole week. [/quote]
Same here.
Now what are those half swiss ball things with a board on the other half. Those are ridiculous.
i agree u shouldn’t comprise an entire workout solely wtih swiss balls workouts, but they do have their uses
personally id like my gym to have the largest variety of equipment possible plus my gym only has two swiss balls that ive seen so they really haven’t gone overboard on it
I use the Swiss balls to sit down on between sets. Trying to keep your ass balanced on those squishy things, especially after some heavy squats, is active recovery for me.
Even louie simmons advocates some use of the swiss ball and westside are some of the badest fuckers around!
but i know thats not the point your getting at. Doing timed dumbbell presses on a stability ball vs one legged bosu ball cable woodchops is quite different, and i totally agree about the people rolling around in the ab/stretch room just doin the most rediculous shit they can think of because its “hard”
the only time people like this get to me at my gym is if your doing a full squat and these gaylords are supersetting smith machine squats with leg extensions and telling someone else(as though i dont have ears) that im gonna hurt my knees going that low. Whenever this happens i always make sure to point out to my training partner in a decently loud voice how harmful the smith and leg extension are and how full squats done properly are fine for the knees. These people usually just look raped afterwards
[quote]TKOWKD1 wrote:
IMHO every gym should have a minimum of 25 swiss ball and one platform.
Fact: Just like running with scissors, swiss balls are an accident waiting to happen.
Am I evil for liking to watch and hoping that one does?
If an accident did happen would you laugh then help, or help and then laugh?
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I don’t know if that girl’s boobs have been photoshopped, or she’s a FON, or had some Swiss Balls painted to look like tits. But if more gyms had Swiss balls that looked like those, maybe I’d retract my anti-Swiss Ball position!
It’s not the Swiss Balls fault that morons like them. Get rid of the Swiss Balls and you will still have the same people in the gym doing something stupid.
Swiss Balls are a tool. They shouldn’t be a favorite but they have uses.
By the way, when I still worked out in gyms, I would line up all the Swiss Balls and separate them just the right amount. It was probably about 7 or 8 balls over about 40 or 50 feet. I’d get a running start and go Superman across the top of them. It’s pretty fun!
[quote]on edge wrote:
It’s not the Swiss Balls fault that morons like them. Get rid of the Swiss Balls and you will still have the same people in the gym doing something stupid.
Swiss Balls are a tool. They shouldn’t be a favorite but they have uses.
By the way, when I still worked out in gyms, I would line up all the Swiss Balls and separate them just the right amount. It was probably about 7 or 8 balls over about 40 or 50 feet. I’d get a running start and go Superman across the top of them. It’s pretty fun!
The swiss balls are nice to sit on. I wish they had a handle so I bounce around the weight room
I think this guy is holding onto his handle.
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That’s what I was talking about. Hopping around the weight room on one of those would be a great way to train for core strength. Every gym should have one. I’d want mine done in camo so I’ll look tuff while using it.
[quote]on edge wrote:
It’s not the Swiss Balls fault that morons like them. Get rid of the Swiss Balls and you will still have the same people in the gym doing something stupid.
Swiss Balls are a tool. They shouldn’t be a favorite but they have uses.
By the way, when I still worked out in gyms, I would line up all the Swiss Balls and separate them just the right amount. It was probably about 7 or 8 balls over about 40 or 50 feet. I’d get a running start and go Superman across the top of them. It’s pretty fun!
Oh yeah… I’m one of those morons…[/quote]
Sorry, on edge, but we now have TWO threads which you could post this on, Squat Rack Curls, and SRC 2. Doc
[quote]FightingScott wrote:
Did Paul Chek invent the swiss ball or did he just popularize it? Is it even Swiss?
Swiss Balls are overused. There are a handful of exercises that you can do on the swiss ball that are worthwhile.
Dumbbell Bench Press.
That’s about it. Ok, so there’s only one. I still think the Swiss Ball Dumbbell Bench Press is an ok exercise. [/quote]
I do most of my benching with dumbells but always on the bench.
So what’s truly the benefit of doing them on the ball? I agree that 99% of the shit people do on them is worthless/ retarded but if there are actual benefits to some excercises I’d like to hear more about them. Thanks.
