help with muscle building

[jorgegonzales]

i'm using the neon blue powerball and its really good but can any1 tell me how to get stronger as i really want to get fit!!!!!!!!!

[donkapone]

go to the gym. :)

[Adrena1in]

When I was relatively new to Powerballing I did some extreme endurance...kept the Powerball going quite fast for an hour or two. Left my arms feeling completely pumped.

Nowadays I don't feel pumped after such a long period of Powerballing though, so I'm getting too used to it. Perhaps an hour with the 250Hz Metal will pump me up. Otherwise, for massive muscle building, yes, try the gym.

[PowerMark]

Yeh, thats what ive been doing. The powerball leaves my arms feeling nicely pumped after a good hour or so of spinning it :) (I got it 5 days ago).
The beautiful thing about powerball is that after a hard run (to try and beat your max), it feels so much nicer to use it slowly for a bit as a bit of a muscle massage than not at all! Then after spinning it slowly you'll want to speed it up again and so on...
I also find it a good warm up for doing some dumb-bells. After powerballing for a bit and you feel like doing some weights, no more warm up is necessary!
:cool:

[Jive]

Hi,

So anyone know what the best way to build muscle with a Pball?

From the little i know about exercise, (which may not that much) spinning away for ages at a relativly high speed would tone the forearm. But some 30sec blasts done in, i guess "set" style sesions would be better for high speeds and muscle growth.

this true :confused: i really dont know :)

Ive tended to do a couple of hundered on each arm in the counter mode then 3 30sec blasts with rests in between. Trying to get the best of both.


hope someone can help me out here ;)

[The Force]

If you really aim at gaining muscles you should do bodybuilding and not powerballing. Powerballing is so much more than gaining strength. It's also about concentration/dedication/synchronisation/technique and last but not least ADDICTIVE FUN :)

So please forget about gaining muscles. Yes, your arms will get thicker and stronger but don't expect miracles.

Regards,

The Force

[Enda]

So please forget about gaining muscles. Yes, your arms will get thicker and stronger but don't expect miracles.

Jive

The Powerball is primarilly a strength building tool when use for sport. It will exercise and strengthen your muscles from the tips of your fingers to your shoulder and up into your neck. Depending on how you use it, you will exercise different muscle groups.

You will find that over time you build muscle using the Powerball, but that is not its purpose.

Regards

Enda
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[Jive]

Okay, Cheers.


Knew i wasnt going to get Arni arms from Pball, :D really do just use it for fun.

Was just to see which use would be best for High score training :)


Thanks for your input guys.

[Enda]

Was just to see which use would be best for High score training :)

The general consensus (and I stand to be corrected on this :) ) is to use the Strength Index mode for training, and then to use the high score mode when going for the records.

Some people have suggested using the 90sec mode but Akis favours the 30 sec mode. link (http://www.powerballs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=808&page=3)

I am afraid that there are no magical tips. Keep practising with endurance sessions, 30s are best I think. Don’t focus on getting a high score in endurance, just give your full energy out and fry your arm!

[Adrena1in]

The general consensus (and I stand to be corrected on this :) ) is to use the Strength Index mode for training...I agree with that too, but I think that it depends on your current level. For me, when I was a 12k Powerballer, very long (30 minutes to 2 hours) hard endurance sessions were beneficial to my high speeds. When I got to around 13k, I found that several 90-second Strength Index sessions were good.

Now that I'm stuck on 13.5k I find long endurance doesn't really help, so I think I''ll start on 30-second Strength Index runs to see if that makes any difference.

Or I'll just try what Mathieu Tauzin does, and only do speed runs for hours on end until I see an improvement.

[DarrinSimon]

When your arm starts to burn, this means something is happening. Make it burn for as long as you can stand it, then go another 5 seconds. You don't have go crazy and spin it up as fast as you can, you'll just burn yourself out too quickly this way. I used to body build, the key to building more muscle mass quickly is first to warmup well. Now do your routines and don't count how many reps, just do them until you fail to do anymore. Basically go straight to failure, in other words after 10 or so reps you can't get that 11th one.
Only do this when you have been using the powerball for quite some time, start slowly. Being a little sore is okay and actually good. Being so sore you can't powerball or anything else is not good. I have seen many people start working out and do all they can do in the first 2 weeks. They are so sore after this that you never see them in the gym anymore due to burnout. Keep it serious, but not too serious that you start to dread doing it. Good luck!

[stephenk]

Thats a good piece of advice in a nutshell - especially the "not overdoing it" bit!

You will find after a while it will take a lot more to make your muscles sore - its working!

Stephen

[dragonriot]

It says on the mainpage of this site somewhere "It's like being able to carry around 50 dumbells in your pocket." yet almost everyone here has said that the Powerball is not intended for strength training. I can attest to the fact that it is indeed good for strength training, as I have a measly Theraball that only spins 8000rpm and I have improved my strength immensely over the last few weeks. There is also a link on this site about someone who only works out his arms with a PBall, again showing that the PBall is good for strength building in your arms, hands, fingers, shoulders, and neck. Right now, I feel a lactase burn coming on from all the spinning I've done today. I'll post another thread about strength training, since it really needs it's own.

[Enda]

It says on the mainpage of this site somewhere "It's like being able to carry around 50 dumbells in your pocket." yet almost everyone here has said that the Powerball is not intended for strength training.

Good Morning dragonriot,

When we say "It's like being able to carry around 50 dumbells in your pocket." we really mean it. It represents the fact that you control the workout and you decide the intensity - in much the same way as you can move between a 0.5-20kg dumbell in a gym environment.

The Powerball is not intended to particularly build muscle mass in your arms, but rather strengthen and tone the muscle in your arms. Some of the forum members have found that the Powerball increases muscle mass, but this is a result of consistent use over an extended period at high speed intensity - as is the same with any workout.

It will greatly increase your grip strength, and that of your wrists, forearms, upper arms and shoulder right up into your neck - depending on how you hold the Powerball during a workout.

Regards

Enda
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