MESSY_UK

Ok, ive done it all.

Ive done the bodybuilding, bulking, cutting, strength training, endurance training blah blah blah.

Newest style ive adapted to is Core Strength training. I used to be heavily into Bodybuilding, at one point being about 220/230lbs at around 12% so i was pretty big, and at 5'9 that looks huge. This was a good 2/3 years ago mind..

Unfortunately over the years ive not had the time, allot fo things have changed and i lost a tonne of muscle, put on some BF and got out of shape.

Ive been going back to my old routine, which im sure will have me alive and kicking again. (I put on muscle stupidly easy).

But ive been incorporating Core Strength training, which essentially is what everyone else does, only balancing at the same time.

By using all the other little muscles you dont usually use when you isolate muscles, you help develop more muscle fibres and ultimately will promote more muscle growth when training for size!


So, heres a few pics.

Who needs weights? (My tools for a good 1 hour core strength training session)


Me balancing on the Bosu ball, 1 legged, doing squats.



Me balancing on the stability ball.





Now, for all those who think this kind of stuff is easy, or doesnt have anything to do with muscle building, or bodybuilding you can go and jump into a oncoming car for all i care!




Enjoy, does anyone here do core training, or has any experience in it?

ah24

Good post. And i have experienced it - not easy at all.

But i dis-agree with one part:

you help develop more muscle fibres and ultimately will promote more muscle growth when training for size!


Thats hyperplasia, which you cant just switch on. Its possible but is quite rare. The only links to it are anabolic steroids. - Just me being picky

MESSY_UK

Probably didnt explain properly, helps promote the use of dormant muscle fibres not used when isolating muscles and doing regular exercises.

Explain better?

hackskii

I know a core training lady that is a stud.
She has you doing supermans, flying squrils, one arm supermans, then some crazy thing where you lay on your back, put your legs up and she lifts her but half way to her chest off the ground.
I could not do the last one at all, it was like someone was lifting her off the matt by her legs.

I felt like the girl after the class.

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MESSY_UK

Total new way of training isnt it? I had to start from the very beginning, its like learning to walk all over again.

Five-O

You thinking of joining the circus? lol

props

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pauly7582

Core stability work is excellent for developing neuromuscular efficiency and strength. It won't bring about large gains in size though.

Bulldozer

as above!

Im sure it has its place.

But if you pack on some serious muscle mass then good luck trying to do it that way buddy!

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MESSY_UK

Dont patronise me please!

Im fully aware of what this type of training does, and how i effects you body. Do you think that i reckon i'm going to be the next Coleman by standing on a ball?

Oh please

pauly7582

Hopefully that wasn't aimed at me since my post was phrased politely.
In your first post you wrote..

Hence my response. Not so much aimed at you, but others reading who may not know so much about this type of training.

Five-O

Prolly aimed at me tbh,

No offence but what do you expect when you come on posting pics of you stood on a ball? pmsl......


still the same Messy off AR, no sense of humour


oh please.

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Bulldozer

I think it might have been me that hit a nerve

Lighten up bud, it was all done in good humour! Hence the smiley face in my post.

:beer1: Chill

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DB

rotf bumping that :love:

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Five-O

oi, naughty boy you!

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MESSY_UK

Haha, well what can i say? I'd be surprised if half of the guys here had decent core strength.

As for you F-O, whats your name on AR?