Grow Your Muscles With Clubbell Training
Clubbells look like small baseball or softball bats and they weigh from 2 to 40 lbs. They are used for Clubbell training, also called circular strength training, which is a type of training that uses momentum and the “core” strength system of the body to improve strength, flexibility, range of motion, and overall fitness.
There are some similarities between Clubbell training and kettlebell training, in that the swinging works out your core muscles, but with Clubbells, your range of motion is increased over the range of motion with a kettlebell. With circular strength training using Clubbells, you swing the club away and then bring it back. This strengthens your core muscles, improves balance, and loosens up joints.

The most obvious benefits are development of the chest, upper back, shoulders, and arms, but Clubbell training marries this development to the strengthening of your body’s core muscle system. In circular strength training, every exercise activates your body’s core, with the Clubbell acting as an extension ofthe body. The abs, obliques, and lower back muscles develop amazing power with Clubbell training. Even the legs, hamstrings, and glutes get a workout.
A number of doctors, physical therapists, chiropractors, and strength coaches are learning about Clubbell training and its ability to help people become more agile and lessen the common types of pain that come along with middle age, and with certain injuries.The difference between the linear strength training that takes place in typical weight training and circular strength training is that circular strength training develops strength in all planes of motion.
Clubbell training incorporates use of all planes of movement, so that the exerciser develops not only linear strength (as traditional weight training does) but also diagonal strength and rotary strength. Developing strength in all planes of motions helps prevent injuries, increases stability and flexibility, and improves overall athletic performance. Functional strength is the goal of circular strength training.

When you work out with traditional dumbbells, you are using your skeleton to support the weight and your grip is directly on the center of gravity, which remains constant during the exercise. With Clubbell training, however, you are forced to use proper technique, which puts the focus on developing the complex skills necessary to complete the exercises. Since your center of gravity is displaced with circular strength training, your weight has to remain inside a certain “zone” throughout the execution of the exercise.
Adding a leverage challenge to a workout by using Clubbells gives an extra dimension to a workout that very effectively develops excellent grip strength, strength in the upper and lower arms, and strength and flexibility of the shoulders. Clubbells are designed with a grip and knob that are specially engineered to give the user the maximum ability to produce force.
The pendulum motion involved with Clubbell training causes the leverage and force to continuously change their position throughout the range of motion of the exercise. This causes the exercise to stress muscles from many different angles, an effect that can’t be duplicated with any other type of gym equipment. The “pendulum swing” principle has actually been used for centuries, but has faded from popularity as traditional weight training took over. People involved in martial arts and contact sports are rediscovering the great utility of circular strength training in their overall physical training regimens.

Clubbell training is based on the principle of incremental progression of challenge. The way the handle of a Clubbell is designed allows minor increases in weight, with the goal being to challenge muscles without overloading them, which could lead to injury. This design makes it easy to make constant progress and constant increases in strength.
Clubbell training also uses what are called combination routines. These are series of two or more exercises that are woven together after the exerciser learns each of the individual moves. It can be compared to learning dance steps, then putting them together into a routine. The results are more effective than if each of the steps of the combination routine were done separately. With combination routines, you develop strength, speed, and coordination all at the same time.
Grip strength is vital to overall fitness, and especially to contact sports and sports that use tools (such as a racket or bat). Sports coaches consider grip strength a great measure of total functional strength. It affects an athlete’s ability to hang onto an opponent or swing a hockey stick effectively. Great grip strength involves forearm, wrist, and hand conditioning.
Shoulder strength and flexibility are also vital to fitness and sports performance. The shoulder is the human body’s most mobile joint. But there are downsides to that great advantage: it is not the most stable joint. The shoulder is amazingly complex, with several structures working in coordination to produce a great range of motions. Circular strength training addresses all the parts and functions of the shoulder in workouts.

The importance to shoulder strength, flexibility, and coordination to sports performance can’t be overstated, whether the sport is tennis, hockey, softball, or basketball. Overloading the movement limits of the shoulders can result in rotator cuff tears and other shoulder injuries which in addition to being extremely painful, can sideline an athlete for long periods of time. Clubbell training is designed to improve shoulder coordination, flexibility, and strength to minimize the likelihood of injury.
Because Clubbell training is designed to strengthen muscles and joints throughout their range of motion, they are being studied as preventative measures for what are called “cumulative trauma disorders,” which affect the muscular, skeletal, and nervous systems. Cumulative trauma disorders include tennis elbow and carpal tunnel syndrome.
While kettlebells are receiving much (deserved) attention as great fitness tools, Clubbells are showing ways in which they are superior to kettlebells. For one thing, the displaced center of mass lets Clubbells be very light and produce superior force. Also, they are swung, rather than lifted, which calls upon whole-body core strength. The design of Clubbells develops grip strength in a superior manner to kettlebells.
Clubbells can be much lighter (and more portable) than kettlebells because of their design and the way exercisers use them. For example, a 15 lb. Clubbell gets the exerciser the equivalent of a workout with a 54 lb. kettlebell or a 75 lb. dumbbell. This ensures that Clubbell training does not cause as much stress on joints and connective tissue as traditional dumbbell or kettlebell training.
Another great advantage of Clubbells is, since they are swung rather than lifted, they actually release and increase flexibilit y of connective tissue, freeing up connective tissues so that they reabsorb the salts in the joints that can lead to calcification. Other forms of weight training compress rather than release joint tissue.
Perhaps most importantly, Clubbell training is something new and different to most people, even though they’ve been around for centuries. They can be used in so many ways, that as a complete workout or as an adjunct to more traditional training, Clubbells help you change up workouts, minimizing monotony and boredom, two of the main killers of fitness motivation. The fact that they are designed to be lightweight and yet give a superior workout also makes them far less likely to cause injury than dumbbells or kettlebells.
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