I'm wondering, if the Swiss ball can overload your stabilizers, perhaps you can get stronger by switching a part of your bench workout, to dumbbell benches on a Swiss ball. I've seen Joe DeFranco do it and put his athletes to it. They also like to use chains to act as overloading agents, though I'm not sure anybody on this forum needs this yet.

Basically, they will choose one bench exercise (pin benches for example) Work to a max according to the Prilepin's table. Then they move to exercises that require the stabilizers to fry, and the Swiss ball bench is one of them. Sometimes they change to kettlebells and chains as well. Kettlebells shake like crazy when put on a barbell. If you don't watch it properly, you may be benching just 40KG but the bar can fall and turn your teeth out.



It's worth a try, if you can keep the ego out and progress gradually from lighter to heavier dumbbells on the swiss ball.



This post has been edited by pizzaboy: Sep 1 2009, 09:45 PM

The guy who did that is the previous manager/owner of Celebrity fitness,Jamie is his name.

Serious bodybuilder with an awesome body,now no longer in Malaysia tho,he is American.

Used to pump the 100 pounders as if it was nothing,i spotted him for barbell bench until 250kgs.

I might give the Swiss ball bench a serious effort if i see some progress in 3 more weeks.

if you're referring to me, i'm not ego bro...in my head, a tonnes of training method i'd like to try but with limited time to do workout and physical constraint, i'm really not fit to try most of it...including the swiss balls...

Do keep me updated with the progress.
I tried doing push-ups on a swiss ball before. Silliest thing ever. I kept falling on the ball.

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Added on September 1, 2009, 9:56 pmI didn't even know you posted anything. I was looking for the video for the kettlebell bench when you posted your reply, so I didn't even see your reply. Rest assured, I was more concerned about other more important things.

This post has been edited by pizzaboy: Sep 1 2009, 09:56 PM

LMAO allrighty then...being over sensitive I am...

Sure,ego is not a problem as i take it more as a challenge!

Push ups might require a little bit more balance.

Why not?

Just try not to fall off the swiss ball. It's a big mess if that happens.

Not with your feet on the ball meh?
You did it with both hands on the ball instead?

I'm not that smart alright. Give it up already.

Its easy to balance actually,the trick is balancing both weights at the end of your arms and also to control the rebound.

easier said than done. =.=

Me benching 45lbs DB.

I have no idea why the video is so laggy...it was fine on the phone. Must have been youtube's fault for compressing it.

Darklight is going to bash me for not going down all the way, but I swear it's the lowest I could go and it was my 4th set for DB bench press and before that I did 5 4 sets of flat BB bench press and 5 sets of SM incline bench press.

Why? It looks fine to me. As long as you get the stretch. Seriously those weights don't do you justice. I know you can push much harder than that. Great form.

Its not as difficult as it looks,am doing it so i know!

Yeah, i love this quote by scott abel from t-nation

Strength doesn't increase forever and ever. There's a ceiling effect.

What happens is after the bodybuilders learn that it's the amount of stress the muscle is under and not the load, they actually start to progress more by using less and less weight.

— Scott Abel

By the way, florian ur video looks like gif file :s.

Wuahahaha!!!
finally finish my busy thing last week and back to my lovely workout yesterday
but ended up sinfully with heavy KFC

talk about KFcccc....at one time i against and avoided kfc and now i myself addicted to it...
hate all the oily part but what to do the tatste is so good
good source of protein + the oil = ??

is the oil healthy ? I'm afraid if it use the trans fat to fry it.