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Ten
More Of The Most Outrageous Exercises I’ve Ever Seen...
By Nick
Nilsson
You’ll be
amazed that people don’t put themselves
in the hospital with
these exercises. The scariest
part is, I’ve actually
witnessed people doing them!
When you’ve been training and going to gyms for as long as I
have, you witness some pretty bizarre interpretations of exercises.
I’m all for variety and experimentation (in fact,
I wrote a book about it called "The Best Exercises You’ve
Never Heard Of - http://www.thebestexercises.com)
but these exercises
go above and beyond (and not in a good way).
A word of warning: do
not try these exercises EVER!
1. Trampoline Presses - set
yourself up on a bench press station
with approximately 5 to 50% more weight than you can
safely handle. Unrack the bar, drop it on your rib cage
at 200 m.p.h., then use the elasticity of your bone and
cartilage to get the weight back up. Your rib cage should
bend inwards at least 2 to 3 inches on each rep.
2. Dumbell Bowling - this
one works only with round dumbells.
Do a set of dumbell flyes. At the end of the set,
don’t set the weight down gently. Roll them out of your
hands directly to the sides in an attempt to knock over
the people to either side of you. A broken toe gets you
5 points while a broken ankle gets you 20.
3. Spastic Colon Squats
- you don’t want to know.
4. Behind-The-Neck Pulldowns
to the Waist - take a wide grip
on the pulldown bar. Set the weight as light as possible.
If you can attach a helium balloon to it to further
reduce the resistance, that’s even better. Pull the bar
down behind your head. Continue the motion down your middle
back until the bar is level with your waistband. Let
the bar up as fast as possible and repeat.
5. Wide Grip Spaz-Chicken
Pushdowns - hook a pulldown bar to
a high pulley. Take a wide grip on the bar (near the ends).
Do a quick pushdown movement from there. You will look
like a chicken having a panic attack.
6. Finger-In-The-Light-Socket
Pull-Ups - this one doesn’t require
much of an explanation as you’ve probably seen it in
action before. If you’ve ever seen someone thrash around
so hard to complete a pull-up rep that they kick themselves
in the teeth, you know what I’m talking about.
7. Bug Masher Push-Ups -
this is a variation of the push-up that
requires a lot of abdominal flexibility. Get into the
top push-up position. Now, without bending your arms, slap
your pelvis against the ground as though trying to squish
a bug with it. Flop up and down repeatedly like this
until you either rupture something or someone comes up
and asks you if you’re okay.
8. Hack Machine Back Breakers
- set up in the hack squat machine
facing the machine instead of the normal way (facing
out). Unrack the sled then lower it down like a front
squat. Be sure to round your back completely over as
you lower the sled down in to the squat. Your body should
resemble a "C" shape (note: this posture may become permanent
after a few sets).
9. Barbell Bench Presses
in a Deserted Gym - this exercise is the most dangerous one of the bunch. I
used to go to a gym that operated on a card-lock system so people could get
in and work out after hours when there was no supervision. I came into the gym
later in the evening one day and found somebody lying on the bench with a heavy
barbell stuck on his chest and yelling for help. I ran over and pulled it off
him as fast as I could. When I asked him how long he had been stuck under the
bar, he told me about half an hour!!
10. This one is for you
to fill in. If you’ve ever seen somebody
doing an exercise that is so strange, so terrible or
so downright hilarious, send a description of it to me at
(betteru@fitstep.com)!
To finish up on a similar
but unrelated topic, I have one final
word of advice: always make sure the treadmill has come
to a complete stop before you bend down to tie your shoelace.
Neglecting to do so can result in you being rolled
off the end like a turtle on a conveyor belt. I’ve
seen it happen and it’s not pretty (darn funny but not
pretty).
To read the prequel to this
article entitled "The Top Ten Most
Outrageous Exercises I’ve Ever Seen" go to the following
URL:
Nick Nilsson is Vice-President
of the online personal training company BetterU, Inc. He has a degree in Physical
Education and Psychology and has been inventing new training techniques for
more than 16 years. Nick is the author of a number of bodybuilding eBooks including
"Metabolic Surge - Rapid Fat Loss," "The Best Exercises You've
Never Heard Of," "Gluteus to the Maximus - Build a Bigger Butt NOW!"
and "The Best Abdominal Exercises You've Never Heard Of" all available
at (http://www.fitness-ebooks.com).
He can be contacted at betteru@fitstep.com.
