Routines?

[Shingo]

Does anyone have any specific routines for when they are using their Powerball. It's just I am better with my right hand than my left. I do not want to use my right too often although it is more rewarding acheiving higher scores. I was just wondering if any of you had a routine so I can be sure to exerise both wrists/arms etc equally.
Thanks.

[Autolupus]

I s'pose you could try and favour your left until you start hitting similar scores with both hands (a pretty good indicator of balance). From then on just train each arm equally. ie all out on left, then all out on right. Or when doing strength or endurance, find a set time you're happy with (I like 30 seconds) and swap hands after each set. Keeping to an even number of sets ensures balance, also try to keep a similar rpm each double.:)

[Shingo]

Ok thanks, I was also wondering how ot get equal motion in my left as it less co-ordinated, which hinders its performance. Is it best to go full out or keep a low rpm and go for endurance getting it used to the motion?

[Autolupus]

Practice is the answer to that one, persist and you will be surprised at the speed at which you improve. As for training type, go for a mix and match to give your training a nice broad effect!:cool:

[Shingo]

Thanks again. Well I suppose I had better get practising. :)

[The Force]

I tend to disagree with what has been said in this thread. Personally I think you should not focus more on your weakest arm. Just give both arms the same "attention" and you will see that the scores will start to become more even (and higher :-) ) by itself.

I am one of the few people who have very balanced scores and this is what I have done always. Sometimes my left hand was faster and sometimes my right arm. At this moment my left arm is faster but my right arm is catching up.

One advise for those who do not have a perfect technique on one of the hands. Use a different powerball for left and right. This may seem a weird advice, but I discovered that the lifetime of each of the powerballs is greatly extended by this measure. I also think I know why this is, but that is too much of a story for this thread.

Best regards,

The Force

[Autolupus]

When I said favour the left I didn't mean to the exclusion of the right.
When you have a disparity in performance, of any type, it's human nature to favour exercises you're good at! This increases the difference. By deliberately focusing on areas that need attention, you tend to iron out these imbalances and therefore shift the focus. As "The Force" says:

I tend to disagree with what has been said in this thread. Personally I think you should not focus more on your weakest arm. Just give both arms the same "attention" and you will see that the scores will start to become more even (and higher :-) ) by itself.

I am one of the few people who have very balanced scores and this is what I have done always.

Ergo he has never really had any sort of imbalance to train around!
I'm assuming you're pretty new to powerball training so improvement now will be a lot quicker than say 6 months down the line. Consequently it will be easier to correct now than later. One hand should be as much FUN to train as the other. Once they're balanced, balanced training should come pretty naturally. Hope this helps.:cool:

[Scr3Am3r]

Train both of your hands evenly. For the 1st month do about 30min max a day(If you didn't play any hand sports do 20 min max)

After a month you could go for high speeds.

But remeber to warm up or else you'll regret it...:eek:

[The Force]

Maybe I forgot to mention the argument of my statement in the previous post. I think you should not train one arm more than the other, because the risk of over training the weakest arm is severely higher in that case.

And one more thing...I may be quite balanced now but I was not balanced at all from July 23rd 2005 to somewhere in October. My left handed score was 14204rpm and my right handed score a loosy 12800rpm!!!! The main reason for this difference was tendonitis on my right hand so that I could not train my right hand as much.

Well, after the healing of my right hand my right handed score went up slowly and reached 14100rpm in october 2005. And I did not put more attention to the right hand than to the left hand.

Understand what I mean?

With kind regards,

The Force

[Adrena1in]

I would also suggest just training both hands evenly, without favouring either. When I first started Powerballing I almost completely favoured my right as I'm right handed, and my left hand had no rhythm or consistency and I just couldn't get anywhere near the same sort of score. But I did still use my left hand a bit, and slowly it got better and better.

Now my record is with my left hand, but my right hand is only a little bit behind.

The one thing I would say is endurance...a long session where you maintain a good speed will train the muscles to do the right movement.

[Autolupus]

Here's a giggle. Look what can happen when you train one arm to the exclusion of the other!:eek: 14

[Shingo]

Cheers all who have offered their advice, It has been a lot of help. I will focus equally on each arm and try to avoid the temptation of using my right more frequently than my left.

[jacko]

I find that i can get fairly even scores with both arms (400 of each other), but my right arm is much stronger. When i use the powerball i have bad co-ordination with my left arm but i still get similar scores: my left arm's co-ordination is not improving

[Adrena1in]

My arms are generally very evenly balanced, (records are 13579 left, 13476 right), but I do have quite different techniques. If I look at myself in the mirror I think my left hand stays more still, but it doesn't FEEL like it's as well co-ordinated. Plus I think my right-hand action is more back-and-forth, whereas my left-hand action is more up-and-down.

My right is always stronger when it comes to endurance though.

[The Force]

The best way to make both techniques the same is to do dual powerball runs. At least, I noticed that both techniques become the same while doing that. Well..ok this is true for me...don't know if other people will notice the same thing.

But, when I do individual runs, both arms fall back to their original technique.

Strange...but true.

Best regards,

The Force