Why I Use Swivel Bells™ Part 2
July 14, 2010
by Stephen R. Santangelo
After reading Why I use Swivel Bells™ - Part 1- The Birth of Swivel Bells™ you should have a good basis for the general introduction of Swivel Bells™ into your training program.
Continuing this series, I will provide specifics as I have outlined in Why Are Swivel Bells™ Superior For Overhead Movements.
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One of the most susceptible injuries to the body is the wrist. Most everyone, including athletes, have extremely weak wrists due to lack of strength, flexibility and mobility.
For those of you who have done Olympic lifting, know how detrimental, the 3 previously mentioned weaknesses can be. When performing Olympic cleans you rack the weight on your collar bones. Your wrists are stretched like they have never been stretched before. It’s very uncomfortable. It takes sometime to develop the much needed flexible strength.
Even doing simple bodyweight exercises which call for a push up in the ‘up’ position, many will feel discomfort in the wrists. One of the most common injuries to the wrists occurs from performing the bench press. Many individuals have felt this pain and it lasts for a long time. It’s not uncommon to deal with this discomfort for a year or two and have it interfere with and even prevent you from performing other exercises.
With the unique swivel joint and triangular handle, found on Swivel Bells™, this hyper- stretched position is eliminated and there’s no torque on the wrist joint and connective tissue. These issues are eliminated due to the design of these unique features which keep your wrists in a neutral position throughout the entire range of motion.
This neutral position allows you to freely pull the weight, to any position, without the unnecessary strain on the wrists. Especially, in exercises such as cleans, keeping this neutral position and having your wrists free to move in a natural trajectory from the initial pull to rack position.
With the absence of extreme torque on the wrists, you can concentrate catching the weight with the body, calling upon a higher number of muscle stimuli, which in turn, accelerates strength gains and muscle hypertrophy.
Eliminating and minimizing injury is #1 when conditioning the body for sport and for general fitness. The fewer issues you have the greater you gains in strength, endurance and overall physical health.
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