While I do have a physioball that I used as my office chair at West Point and I don't have any problem with them being a PART of a balanced core training routine, this video pretty much sums up my feelings on unstable surface training and the way it's been pushed as the or athletic development. By the way, what is "Core Stability"? Has anyone seen a reasonable definition that holds up against [...]

I was sent this picture this morning. This is precisely why we need to bring a degree of sanity to what we are doing and define the field. THINK. I really can see no place for this exercise unless you are a circus performer. This is taking the idea of instability way beyond where it needs to go. What you are doing here is creating an entirely new skill set. In addition this is a high risk exe [...]

Joes post in reply to yesterday blog got me thinking. What do you need to start a Bozo center? First call it a Human Performance Center; after all you can’t call it a three ring circus or a zoo. That would be too strong a clue to what really happens there. Make sure you have a bunch of physioballs (be sure you have well padded floors so people don’t get hurt when they fall off) and wal [...]

Too often a “new” training method or exercise will emerge and everyone will jump on the bandwagon and quickly incorporate the exercise or change to the new training method. The attitude is that if so and so who is the world record holder does it must be good, therefore I will copy it. I call this the monkey see monkey do syndrome. The use of chains in weight training, physioballs in co [...]