[HN Gopher] Exercise by club swinging was all the rage in the 19...
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Exercise by club swinging was all the rage in the 19th century
Author : apollinaire
Score : 17 points
Date : 2020-04-02 23:58 UTC (1 days ago)
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| paultopia wrote:
| Strongman type workouts still use these today (typically in
| steel), along with maces. You can buy them from the sort of
| suppliers that sell to crossfit gyms and the like, e.g.,
| https://www.onnit.com/onnit-steel-clubs/
| UweSchmidt wrote:
| Of course the fitness industry has already rediscovered these
| clubs and sells stylish items under the 'functional fitness'
| category. But the more 'functional' a workout gets, the more one
| could wish there was real, physical work to be done, the kind of
| work that reveals muscular deficiencies despite regular gym
| workouts (often hand strength and endurance when working
| overhead) and gives a different sense of accomplishment and
| satisfaction: shelves built, home improved, practical skills
| acquired.
| dirtyid wrote:
| There's a reason we try to automate repetitive manual labor -
| it's dangerous and detriment to long term health. The whole of
| human existence has been a long march towards minimizing labour
| though we've definitely overshot to the point where disease of
| affluence is our number one public health challenge. That said,
| cultivating fitness in modern society should focus on the least
| amount of labour for maximum individual and public health
| benefits. An hour of strength training, some cardio to prolong
| individual health is probably the most sensible prescription. A
| common anecdote between people who deadlift 600lbs and build
| houses for a living is how much pain they live with in later
| life.
|
| On the topic of clubs, these are surprisingly good prehab tools
| for shoulder health.
| skookum wrote:
| > ...shelves built, home improved, practical skills acquired.
|
| Shoveling snow/dirt/other substances, chopping wood, pushing
| wheelbarrows, or loading trucks would be better examples of
| real-world equivalents to the more-maligned functional exercise
| regimes, but there's only so much of those most of us have
| opportunity to do. Apart from adding sheer volume it's also a
| little harder to build a progressive overload program around
| those types of activities.
| thaumasiotes wrote:
| > there's only so much of those most of us have opportunity
| to do
|
| For most of those tasks, someone else will pay you to do
| them. The problem isn't a shortage of opportunity.
| skookum wrote:
| One thing you can always depend on HN for: there will be
| "that guy" who willfully ignores the point and jumps in to
| correct you based on a literal interpretation.
| throwlaplace wrote:
| Get a 20lb sledge and ~400lb tractor tire. Alternate flipping the
| tire and using the sledgehammer on it. Almost better than any gym
| workout (it's what I'm doing right now while my gym is closed).
| Your forearms will be so sore the next day you'll barely be able
| to type (at least for the first few weeks).
| Ididntdothis wrote:
| And don't hit yourself on the shin as I did once :-(
| throwlaplace wrote:
| 100% this
| lotophage wrote:
| When _swinger 's club_ referred to something else.
| omgwtfbyobbq wrote:
| Reminds me of colorguard/winterguard.
| yellowapple wrote:
| Indeed. Spinning/tossing a rifle or flag takes quite a bit of
| strength and control, especially when doing it in time with
| music (as most guards do).
| progre wrote:
| Reminds me of http://www.shovelglove.com/
| yellowapple wrote:
| Well that explains what the hell my upstairs neighbors are
| doing every day.
| Nerdfest wrote:
| Excitedly read title of article. Disappointed upon discovering
| it's not that type of club, nor that type of swinging.
| 0xff00ffee wrote:
| As a former crossfitter: we did this, but we replaced the club
| with really expensive boutique sledgehammers in neon colors with
| mean-sounding names.
|
| Like the Rogue "Warhammer": https://www.roguefitness.com/sisu-
| war-hammer
|
| Or this Hannuman prop: https://www.onnit.com/quad-mace/
| heavenlyblue wrote:
| Why former?
| jm547ster wrote:
| Probably the injuries from silly unnecessary unsafe movements
| like this
| 0xff00ffee wrote:
| I moved to a smaller town and there's only local one box
| which is populated with town's supply of douchebags. It's hit
| or miss: sometimes a crossfit gym is a fun bunch of people,
| other times it's a bunch of head-butting-brahs that make the
| whole experience awful.
| [deleted]
| hourislate wrote:
| As a kid I watched wrestling and remember the Iron Sheik doing
| some strange things with what looked like giant rolling pins.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MycGlTq8Bb4
|
| Only recently did I learn (episode on JRE) how difficult it is
| and how much strength it required.
| chkaloon wrote:
| God I miss old school pro wrestling. Hilarious.
| sashavingardt2 wrote:
| It's still all the rage! They are portable too. Perfect for a
| digital nomad!
| chkaloon wrote:
| In Wisconsin there are still auditoriums named Turner Hall in
| some towns. Monroe is one, and when I was a kid I always wondered
| who "Mr. Turner" was who it was named after. My dad finally told
| me it used to be a gymnastics club, and the members were called
| "turners".
| biophetik wrote:
| Created these awhile back. They worked pretty well and you can
| add sand for more weight. https://youtu.be/PQKsyqQPRpc
| moron4hire wrote:
| I was expecting this to be about vigorous dancing at nightlife
| establishments and I wanted to know what 19th century nightclubs
| were like.
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