So I saw this personal trainer dude do a pushup with one leg on the stability ball and two hands on an elevated surface. Then he made his overweight client attempt it.
His reasons for doing this were for strength and stability. What he really accomplished was that I thought he was a complete idiot and he should get his certification revoked as well as his gym membership cancelled.
I see a lot of stupid things go on in the gym that make me just cringe.
Look, just because it looks cool doesn't mean that it is effective. I remember the story where famed personal trainer Juan Carlos Santana was doing 180 lbs squats with his feet ON A STABILITY BALL (for the same reasons "strength and stability"). He has done the squast before but this time his footing was not right and he fell the ground breaking a lot of bones.
He did this in front of hundreds of people at a seminar.
When he recuperated he informed everyone to never attempt what he tried and vowed he would never do it again.
When looking for effective exercises look no further than the fundamental ones. Squats, deadlifts, chest press, pull ups. When I prescribe a fat loss program, athletic conditioning program or mass building program these exercises are still the foundations of where I work from.
Next time your personal trainer asks you to do a stupid ass exercise like the one I just mentioned please give him/her a cocked eye and question the shit out of why you are doing such an exercise in the first place.
If you get a bunch of muttering, stuttering and stammering about why they prescribe it, take the back of your hand and subsequently slap it across your trainers face.
You will probably get a more effective workout doing that instead ;)
DG
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