Post by fredhutch on Jan 14, 2019 16:46:32 GMT
Hello there Michael and others--
Nice to see you fellows. Regarding the slosh tube, I made mine out of 4" diameter PVC, ten feet long. That's the length it came in and I saw no reason to change it. I used rubber "quick caps" on each end, fastened with a hose clamp. I would fill and unfill it each time I used it, roughly half full with water. I used it for deadlifts, bent over rows, overhead presses and zercher squats mostly. It was an OK piece of equipment, and it's true that you can sometimes really have to fight to keep it balanced--you tip it just a tiny bit too far and you can feel all the water rushing to one end, it's actually kind of comical in a way--but I have to say I was somewhat disappointed with it. Mostly because the articles online about it all talked about what a great "core" (God I hate that word) workout it was, and about how sore they got using it. Well I never got sore and honestly I never thought it did much for me. I am a big advocate of unstable surface training (swiss balls, balance boards, etc) but the slosh pipe really did not impress me much. Maybe I was just in such spectacular shape already? Unknown. But I wouldn't discourage anybody from trying it out, you might like it more than me. One thing though, after using it for a few months I found that both my thumbs were severely strained, and it took months after I quit using the thing for them to get better...so I would say, with great feeling, that unless you have huge hands, go with the 3" diameter pipe. 4" was just too hard on the thumbs.
I like Emerson's book, by the way; I am a big advocate of training strength and endurance together in the same workout. Bud Jeffries "Twisted Conditioning" books are another take on the same approach.
Cheers,
Fred
Nice to see you fellows. Regarding the slosh tube, I made mine out of 4" diameter PVC, ten feet long. That's the length it came in and I saw no reason to change it. I used rubber "quick caps" on each end, fastened with a hose clamp. I would fill and unfill it each time I used it, roughly half full with water. I used it for deadlifts, bent over rows, overhead presses and zercher squats mostly. It was an OK piece of equipment, and it's true that you can sometimes really have to fight to keep it balanced--you tip it just a tiny bit too far and you can feel all the water rushing to one end, it's actually kind of comical in a way--but I have to say I was somewhat disappointed with it. Mostly because the articles online about it all talked about what a great "core" (God I hate that word) workout it was, and about how sore they got using it. Well I never got sore and honestly I never thought it did much for me. I am a big advocate of unstable surface training (swiss balls, balance boards, etc) but the slosh pipe really did not impress me much. Maybe I was just in such spectacular shape already? Unknown. But I wouldn't discourage anybody from trying it out, you might like it more than me. One thing though, after using it for a few months I found that both my thumbs were severely strained, and it took months after I quit using the thing for them to get better...so I would say, with great feeling, that unless you have huge hands, go with the 3" diameter pipe. 4" was just too hard on the thumbs.
I like Emerson's book, by the way; I am a big advocate of training strength and endurance together in the same workout. Bud Jeffries "Twisted Conditioning" books are another take on the same approach.
Cheers,
Fred