VIDEO- Hammer Time (Power Training)

In the street power is king. Concussive, penetrating, crippling power. In order to do that you need some type of resistance training. The most effective and most popular is positive impact training. Positive impact training is when you strike a target. Negative impact training is when you use resistance on the motion. Weights, surgical bands and even a weight vest are excellent means of negative impact training.

One such old school method is hammer training. What is unique about this type of training is that is combines both positive and negative impact training. The negative resistance comes from the weight of the hammer while the positive comes from the impact on the target.

Another added benefit is hand conditioning. All of the muscles and skeletal structure engaged to hold the hammer is strengthened. Your forearms, wrists, metacarpals and fingers become stronger and tougher with each stroke of the hammer. It's no wonder prize fighters started doing this back in the turn of the 20th century.

It's funny, when I was in college one of my buddies became a mason. Part of what he did was break stone (among all the other crappy details newbie union masons have to do). Between that and squeezing a caulk gun, his grip was insane!!! Here I was climbing ropes, doing wrist curls, squeezing balls and all these other tricks and he still felt like he could crush my hand. Later I learned the old time boxers trick (and the Japanese did it too with a thing called a suburito- but that's next blog post :D).

Negative impact training is great for those times when you need to give your hands a break. Injured, tired or sore, one of those things is bound to happen during your training so you better plan to supplement your efforts with a variety of creative training techniques.

So grab and old tire and a lump hammer because its HAMMER TIME!


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