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Hello Bret, in lieu of buying a 203lb KB, do you think the combination of a loading pin and a handle would accomplish the same role as the hungarian core blaster?
examples:
http://www.ironmind-store.com/15-Olympic-Plate-Loading-Pin-Carabiner/productinfo/1314-C/
http://store.sorinex.com/Hungarian-Core-Blaster-plate-loaded-p/hcb-1.htm
Hmmm, I have a loading pin and I have a seated row handle, so I could test this out. But to be honest I think it’s problematic when the lever is too long. I prefer kettlebells because they load is closest to the hips and therefore easiest to control. I’d have to try it out, but my assumption is that it wouldn’t be optimal (but still would be effective). Probably 75% as effective as the kb option. Just my two cents. Why not make a homemade t-handle? $15!
I have a t-handle, and my issue is length. After around 200lbs, it gets hard to control. When I am no longer a broke student, I will get a real kettle bell.
Question- do you think glutes can get too strong and that this is a practical concern to guard against. A woman posted on a forum that she wasn’t content with her glutes, and she was already doing weighted hip thrusts. I suggested more exercises for variety, reverse hypers, kettlebell swings, etc, more weight- make sure she was progressing over time and not stuck, and increasing frequency.
Another user said that if she did too much isolation, her glutes would get too strong, and it would disturb the glutes relationship w/ the hamstrings and quads and it was better to mostly train glutes in compound exercises and isolation exercises were mostly for lagging gluteus. This baffled me, and I obviously dissented- not that it wasn’t theoretically possible to have strong gluteus, which I have trouble conceptualizing, but that it wasn’t a practical concern.
I know that muscle imbalances can cause a torque on joints, which can cause , but what would be the consequence of too strong glutes? I can’t think of a muscle group that opposes them in the same way as quad/hamstring. Also, has anyone ever gotten their glutes too strong? Is this really a practical fear?
Would you recommend using kettlebells if you have problematic wrists? I’ve got small wrists and they don’t hold up well with moderately heavy wrists. I do a lot of mobs before and after my workouts but I still get sore wrists.
Oops, I meant to say moderately heavy weights. My bad.