Are you in search of an answer? March 19, 2008
Posted by hardly Bar, Medicine Ball
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Today I noted that a search term had shown up at the bottom of my dashboard, “wall ball substitute”.
Is there such a thing? Yup, sorta.
First, a Wall Ball is where you start off standing up, holding a medicine ball. To start the movement, you do a full squat, and then push off the floor, and as you get close to full extension, you explode up, and then use your arms to guide the medicine ball to it’s target on the wall in front of you @ 10 ft of the floor. The ball then returns to your hands, you catch it, and repeat.
An alternative to the wall ball is called the Thruster. You use a barbell in place of the ball, and you’re obviously not throwing the bar against the wall! In place of the higher rep counts that you use w/a wall ball, you have heavier weights. Go to this link, http://www.scoreperformance.com/mvmnts.php, and then click on the word “Thruster” to see it.
Comments
You wouldn’t believe some of the searches I get… very funny stuff.