Explaining The New Sandbag Exercise

God bless you all.

A couple of days ago we printed a post that a gentleman put up praising our Twisted Conditioning and Super Strength & Endurance for Martial Arts books. In it he talked about trying out a killer sandbag exercise from the martial arts book. Sine we sent that email out, we’ve received multiple questions about what exactly that exercise was. For some reason maybe it didn’t come across clearly so we’re going to explain it for you. It really is an over the top gut buster strength and conditioning builder. If I were training a grappler this is the main exercise I would concentrate on.

To do this you need a sandbag. Something you can tie around the sandbag, a heavy rubber cable and a stationary object to tie your rubber cable to.

Load your sandbag to whatever weight you’re going to use. I suggest you go moderate the first time till you get the feel for this. Tie a rope or a strap of some kind around your sandbag, preferably going one time around the bag vertically, then one time around horizontally so that the strap criss-crosses each other.

Next, fasten your rubber cable to an immovable object. I use my power rack. Probably want to tie it about waist-height to start, but you can experiment over the course of multiple sets. Then tie the other end of your rubber cable to the strap tied around your sandbag. Bear hug the sandbag, pick it up, and walk away until the rubber cable starts getting tight. Now set yourself in an athletic stance, squeeze the sandbag very hard and simulate a lateral throw from wrestling or any of your favorite grappling-based martial arts. You make basically the same motion that you would if you were chopping a standing tree with an axe. The beauty and probably pain of this exercise is that it directly simulates grappling and works your strength and endurance from multiple directions at the same time.

Not only are you lifting and supporting the weight of the sandbag itself, but you are being directly resisted horizontally from the tension of the rubber cable. So not only is gravity pushing the sandbag straight down (like carrying your opponents weight), the cable is trying to pull the sandbag out of your hands and resisting you as you turn. (Like an opponent resisting you throwing him).

Chris, the guy who wrote this letter raving about how brutal this exercise was, also took it a step farther (as was intended in the book), and did multiple sets of squats with his sandbag varying the direction that the cable was pulling from. (straight away, left, right, etc.). He found out like you will that every muscle from head to toe gets ripped using this multiple resistance exercise. I don’t think there is an exercise that blasts your abdominal complex more intensely and more functionally than this exercise. Not only are you training all muscles of the body with an extreme emphasis on arms, back and hips and abdominals, but you are at the same time training your grappling skill. If you’ve read our martial arts book you understand that I think martial arts and strength training are absolutely inseparable. In fact martial training is strength training because it strengthens not only the function of your muscle, but you efficiency in combat. It always behooves a man to be able to express his strength and prepping for combat is an unfortunate but necessary part of life. You never know when you may be called upon to protect those that you love. This is an exercise that conditions and strengthens you and builds those qualities in a way that they directly apply to martial arts. What a killer! Why not have it all? Bizarre strength and endurance and 100% carry over to the real world of combat. You won’t be disappointed with this exercise.

If you’re ready to see intense and unbelievable exercises like this one, ready to take your conditioning to a whole new level, ready to find the missing link to taking your gym strength and making it carry over to your fighting strength, then you need Super Strength & Endurance for Martial Arts.

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