Turkish get ups.

[Purple Aki]

Does anyone else do this exercise?

Only just started doing them, but they are pretty awesome. I tried them with a sandbag at the end of a sandbag workout Monday and that was quite brutal on the core.

[johnnynoname]

as a personal trainer, I can tell you that, in my opinion, Turkish get ups are a "show off" move

that is, it is a move that trainers give to retarded clients to "show off".

"OMG- my trainer is like incredible.  He made me do this exercise called a Turkish Get up.  OMG you have to see this exercise"

If you want to work your "core" (God, I hate that term,btw) just do controlled flat ground crunches


btw, "the coach"- I know you are gonna prove me wrong but that is my opinion on Turkish get ups
Furthermore, "Planks" are bullshit as well.  The only reason I use them is so I can check my Text messages while my client is looking down on the floor doing a "plank" for a minute or two

[MORTALCOIL]

Turkish training is clearly the best.
if you don't believe it, check for yourself:

[Parker]

Damn, I thought a "Turkish Get Up", is when in when someone is holding your legs and perform a standing sit up from a lying down position.

[Purple Aki]

as a personal trainer, I can tell you that, in my opinion, Turkish get ups are a "show off" move

that is, it is a move that trainers give to retarded clients to "show off".

"OMG- my trainer is like incredible.  He made me do this exercise called a Turkish Get up.  OMG you have to see this exercise"

If you want to work your "core" (God, I hate that term,btw) just do controlled flat ground crunches


btw, "the coach"- I know you are gonna prove me wrong but that is my opinion on Turkish get ups
Furthermore, "Planks" are bullshit as well.  The only reason I use them is so I can check my Text messages while my client is looking down on the floor doing a "plank" for a minute or two

Interesting. I got the idea to do them off quite a po faced strength and conditioning forum where quite a lot of the posters consider them "up there" with deadlifts, sohp, squats etc in the list of essential exercises. From boxing and other training I've always done a lot of the "traditional" ab exercises and these seemed to be something a little bit different but, however, I can see how they are considered a bit gimmicky. I'm going to give them a month or two and see if I've noticed much difference in core (sorry!) strength/overall strength.

Damn, I thought a "Turkish Get Up", is when in when someone is holding your legs and perform a standing sit up from a lying down position.

I've never known what they were supposed to be called, just that they are particularly unpleasant when combined with punching the pads when in the standing position.

[spinnis]

Unless your a male cheerleader or a acrobat that would be completly worthless.

Im pretty damn impressed by the vid though.

[johnnynoname]

Interesting. I got the idea to do them off quite a po faced strength and conditioning forum where quite a lot of the posters consider them "up there" with deadlifts, sohp, squats etc in the list of essential exercises. From boxing and other training I've always done a lot of the "traditional" ab exercises and these seemed to be something a little bit different but, however, I can see how they are considered a bit gimmicky. I'm going to give them a month or two and see if I've noticed much difference in core (sorry!) strength/overall strength.

i have to back track alittle actually

while I do think they are a bit "gimmicky" for ab training for clients, I do believe it does serve a purpose and that is for wrestlers to get up faster after being tossed

Truth be told, being a third generation pro wrestler, there is a certain way that we get up off the ground after taking a bump...and it is basically kinda like a turkish get up.

so, yes, turkish get ups are gimmicky but functional for wrestlers who want to get up faster after taking a bump and avoiding a "shoot" situation

[The True Adonis]

Does anyone else do this exercise?

Only just started doing them, but they are pretty awesome. I tried them with a sandbag at the end of a sandbag workout Monday and that was quite brutal on the core.

HAHAHHAAHHA What ever happened to just lifting weights?  I`d pay to see a mishap.  Waste of time.

[The Showstoppa]

i have to back track alittle actually

while I do think they are a bit "gimmicky" for ab training for clients, I do believe it does serve a purpose and that is for wrestlers to get up faster after being tossed

Truth be told, being a third generation pro wrestler, there is a certain way that we get up off the ground after taking a bump...and it is basically kinda like a turkish get up.
so, yes, turkish get ups are gimmicky but functional for wrestlers who want to get up faster after taking a bump and avoiding a "shoot" situation

Oh brother, here we go with the apartment wrestling stories again.....



 

[The True Adonis]

More retarded and certainly no less gay than a Baby Shower for Trigg Palin.

[johnnynoname]

Oh brother, here we go with the apartment wrestling stories again.....



 

yes, my grandfather Salvatore's best of tape used to be sold in the back of all of George Naplitano's Magazines like "Main Event"

My dad did the job to Bill apter at the "London Publishing" building in 1979

[Coach is Back!]

Does anyone else do this exercise?

Only just started doing them, but they are pretty awesome. I tried them with a sandbag at the end of a sandbag workout Monday and that was quite brutal on the core.

I do them with my fighters but thats about it.

[Butterbean]

Turkish training is clearly the best.
if you don't believe it, check for yourself:

I'm ready to hit that gym after seeing that

[The True Adonis]

I do them with my fighters but thats about it.

I`d like to see you ask Mel Gibson to get on the floor and try one.  He would slap the everlasting shit out of you and then call your wife a C U N T and you would do nothing about it, but stand there with a red handprint across your face.

[Coach is Back!]

I`d like to see you ask Mel Gibson to get on the floor and try one.  He would slap the everlasting shit out of you and then call your wife a C U N T and you would do nothing about it, but stand there with a red handprint across your face.

You mean kinda like what I would do to you if we ever met?

[noworries]

as a personal trainer, I can tell you that, in my opinion, Turkish get ups are a "show off" move

that is, it is a move that trainers give to retarded clients to "show off".

"OMG- my trainer is like incredible.  He made me do this exercise called a Turkish Get up.  OMG you have to see this exercise"

If you want to work your "core" (God, I hate that term,btw) just do controlled flat ground crunches


btw, "the coach"- I know you are gonna prove me wrong but that is my opinion on Turkish get ups
Furthermore, "Planks" are bullshit as well.  The only reason I use them is so I can check my Text messages while my client is looking down on the floor doing a "plank" for a minute or two

As a fat guy I find just getting up without the dumbbell is hard enough. 

[The True Adonis]

As a fat guy I find just getting up without the dumbbell is hard enough. 

Keith, you were one of the strongest guys around and hung with the strongest, did you ever see anyone do this dumb shit?

[noworries]

Keith, you were one of the strongest guys around and hung with the strongest, did you ever see anyone do this dumb shit?

no!  The shit people come up with nowadays is hilarious.  When owned the Gold's in Kona Hawaii there was this pone personal trainer there that just seemed to spend all night thinking of dumber exercises to do.  He did this one on the cable cross over that I can't even explain.  He grab each handle from the top position and walk out with his arms extended and then jump up and down.  The whole machine would shake and everyone would stop and watch him.  I ended up telling him he couldn't do that exercise anymore.  And all the shit they do with the big exercise ball is hilarious. I have seen so many people fall off those things. 

[Purple Aki]

no!  The shit people come up with nowadays is hilarious.  When owned the Gold's in Kona Hawaii there was this pone personal trainer there that just seemed to spend all night thinking of dumber exercises to do.  He did this one on the cable cross over that I can't even explain.  He grab each handle from the top position and walk out with his arms extended and then jump up and down.  The whole machine would shake and everyone would stop and watch him.  I ended up telling him he couldn't do that exercise anymore.  And all the shit they do with the big exercise ball is hilarious. I have seen so many people fall off those things. 

Umm, the Turkish get up is an old school exercise. It was popular with strongmen in the late 19th and early twentieth century.

[The True Adonis]

Umm, the Turkish get up is an old school exercise. It was popular with strongmen in the late 19th and early twentieth century.

I think thats a load of bullshit made up to make the exercise seem "mysterious" or "forgotten".  Besides, the "strongmen" of the 19th century did mostly pointless and useless not to mention dangerous shit.  Most were just fat asses who were using leverage and the center of gravity their fat shape provided.  A lot of the times they used gimmick weights for exhibitions.  No different than a magic show back then.

Do you have a source for your claims?

[Purple Aki]

I think thats a load of bullshit made up to make the exercise seem "mysterious" or "forgotten".  Besides, the "strongmen" of the 19th century did mostly pointless and useless not to mention dangerous shit.  Most were just fat asses who were using leverage and the center of gravity their fat shape provided.  A lot of the times they used gimmick weights for exhibitions.  No different than a magic show back then.

Do you have a source for your claims?

http://www.oldtimestrongman.com/blog/labels/Turkish%20Getup.html

[The True Adonis]

http://www.oldtimestrongman.com/blog/labels/Turkish%20Getup.html

Do you think it helped obtain his epic H taper?  That garbage exercise should stay in the 19th century where it belongs. 

[Coach is Back!]

Thank you Aki, as usual TA has his head completly up his ass so far he can smell his own breath. BTW, that's one of favorite reference sites.

[The True Adonis]

Thank you Aki, as usual TA has his head completly up his ass so far he can smell his own breath. BTW, that's one of favorite reference sites.

You have to peddle exercise gimmickry in your line of work else people will figure out that you serve no purpose.  Its quite simple really.

[Purple Aki]

Do you think it helped obtain his epic H taper?  That garbage exercise should stay in the 19th century where it belongs. 

Nice back peddling, shit-for-brains.