Stabilizing muscle exercises

[plazmagem]

I've been reading up on a lot of gymnastic exercises and other forms of body building to supplement my dancing.

Supposedly gymnastic rings gives you the fastest path to upper body strength simply because of the constant quivering and max tension required to do those exercises. It made me think that you can just use a stability/exercise ball to mimic similar exercises.

Let me give an example.. you can do pushups using rings or a stability ball. Doing pushups on a stability ball makes it hell of a lot tougher since you have to maintain your core rigidity as well as find that balance point as you lower yourself and push back up. You can increase the difficulty by putting your feet up higher as you progressively get stronger.

If anybody's had experience please share...

[Bboy Phunk-E]

Gymnastic rings are good, i need to buy those soon.

But if you can't get your hand on any or the ball i would suggest to simply learn how to balance every basic one hand freeze on both arms (separately). Hand-balance, pike-balance, airchair balance, head balance, elbow balance, etc

Balancing helps build the core and all the stabilizing muscles for the arms

Also balancing on one foot in different positions, such as yoga poses will help stabilize the legs

[Switch '88]

Building an Olympic Body through Bodyweight Conditioning: A Bodyweight Strength Training article from Dragon Door Publications

Check this article out! Let me know how it worked out for you.

[Bboy Phunk-E]

Originally Posted by Switch '88

Building an Olympic Body through Bodyweight Conditioning: A Bodyweight Strength Training article from Dragon Door Publications

Check this article out! Let me know how it worked out for you.

i remember this! i read it when i was first learning flares and a friend of mine told me to do this type of conditioning to help my flares get better

it works for more than just flares tho

[SaN^_]

rings are the best tool to develop stable muscles on the upper body, but they must be used with caution, as is easy to injury yourself with them. Also with balls you can do lots of exercises. As a example, push ups placing the hands on two scoccer balls or similary are good to stabilice shoulders. The most important thing here is the form of the exercises, not the reps etc, anything between 3-8 reps is ok. And its also important to understand that stabilizing a joint means first make it flexible and then give strenght in all his range of motion, because if not it could lead to an injury. : )

[fireboy1]

forget about rings if your thinking this far ahead i went gymnastic school for a number of years and before you are allowed near the rings you must achieve the planche position because the same degree of strength you need for rings is the same for the planche...rings are highly difficult i would suggest learning the planche and using rings when you are very strong because if you dont when you get up there you will be shaking around like you have been electrocuted

[bokãoOG]

good, I'm new in bboyworld ... then I apologizing if I missed something

some of you have tried to do isometric exercises?
is very good.
helps strengthen the muscles of the legs, so that we do not have inflammations, causing the temporary removal of the training.

the only thing that has not managed to get some exercise to increase my lung resistance.
if anyone knows, let me know.
sorry for the English, had help from google translate.
hahuahuahua
peace

[erwin123]

welcome

[RADRaze2KX]

Originally Posted by Bboy Phunk-E

i remember this! i read it when i was first learning flares and a friend of mine told me to do this type of conditioning to help my flares get better

it works for more than just flares tho

I've been using that guide for about 5 weeks to get into planche, plus it's a really good shoulder workout when your shoulders have both been dislocated and any weight lifting with them causes them to pop and the tendons to get inflamed... 5 weeks in, I can do the Tuck Planche for 60+ seconds but can only hold the Advanced Tuck Planche for about 15 seconds before I fall... that's with Nike's on... I've definitely seen a huge increase in strength since starting it though... I now incorporate static holds/isometrics into all my routines... holding weights in the same position for 60 seconds is harder than it sounds, but definitely granted me some big muscle gains and heavy fat loss... 2 months ago I was 167 pounds, now I'm 150... diet and exercise baby!

[skeptic]

Not quite gymnastics rings, but alot of gyms are now using something similar called TRX bands they are pretty good for stabilizing muscles.

[Julius]

This is a very interesting topic! A lot of good tips here.

I've stopped weight training years ago and started to rely more on my body's natural strength. Gymnastics exercises might be the thing I need to get even stronger! I rather have my muscles worked out and trained for the type of moves I'm doing than have them look all big and weigh me down. It's all about functionality than looks.

[sri]

yup it's all about the stabalizers for injury cure/prevention. My shoulders are 'hyper mobile' this places added strain on my joints especially when workin in extream range ... ie hong10 freeze airchair... If you are relaying on flexibility and you dont have much strength then chances are you will get injured like me!!
I am healing at the moment and finding that the pilates ball is really helping to rebuild my shoulder stabaliser muscles and correct my posture. I also have a shoulder impingement so i need to ice around 5 times per day to take down the swelling and increase blood flow to the injured area... I also use correct posture all the time to help my shoulder heal. My injury is slowly getting better and Im starting to feel much stronger and controlled in my shoulders! Then I'm planning what moves to work on when I'm better.... gona have to switch up my style as the crazy flexy style has merked my body....