Have you ever wondered how — prior to the advent of sit-ups, crunches, and that cool toy Chuck Norris and Christie Brinkley flog — the first humans on earth developed the core conditioning and functional abdominal training necessary to eke out a meal or two?
It couldn’t have been easy chucking spears, running down dinner and [...]

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Indian clubs or Club Bells belong to a category of exercise (and juggling) equipment that was popular in the late 19th century and early 20th century in Europe, the British Commonwealth and the United States. They comprise bowling-pin shaped wooden “clubs” of varying sizes and weights, which are swung in certain patterns as [...]

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What’s Old is New
Medicine ball training is one of the oldest forms of strength and conditioning training – the first reference to wrestlers training with sand filled bladders appears in Persia nearly 3000 years ago. In ancient Greece the physician Hippocrates had them sewn out of animal skins and stuffed with sand. His patients threw [...]

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