Bullworker Fatality AKA What Not To Do With Your Bullworkers

[thunderl1ps]

Recently I bought one of Marlon Birch's books ("Power Iso-Bow Isometric Method") because it was only 7 or 8 dollars on sale, along with a pair of Iso-bows.

Today I was playing around with some of the Birch techiques on the Bullworker today, felt the muscles in my legs like never before with the X5. Implimenting longer holds (30 seconds) followed by pulsing reps (hold combined with 15 reps immediately after). My legs feel like I've done 800 pound reps on the leg press at the gym.

It made me think, "I wonder what sort of other leg exercises I can do with a Bullworker that aren't in the manual?" I've already played around with the Iso-bow using techniques that aren't in the manual or the book that feel superior to what is suggested, (i.e. put your foot through one strap and with the opposite hand, hang onto the other handle and leg press). Maybe with a simple tweak I could discover the next great Bullworker leg exercise?

What could go wrong?

Silly me, using my X5 and not thinking it through, I grabbed the inner handles and put my foot on the straps and decided I was going to do some sort of modified leg press. Well, don't ever try it. It had a wishbone effect and I snapped the plastic  handle and the X5 fell apart.

I waited a couple of hours, thought some more about what I had done and what the problem was exactly that wrecked the X5. I had bought a Bully Extreme for 7 dollars at the Salvation Army (I that that is what it is) and I carefully tried to do the same thing with that and a small piece of the plastic coating cracked on the cable, so I stopped. I dont' use it hardly at all, but I still am not happy. Totally functional still.

Bottom line: Don't be a moron like me and put your Bullworkers through that kind of torque. It won't end well and you may cry yourself to sleep

[BigBruvOfEnglandUK]

[brothersteve]

Thanks for sharing....poor x5.....gone but not forgotten.

[determinator]

Best to not tell me what I shouldn't do, or I'm gonna do it.  

Now, where shouldn't I put my feet again?  

insert quote here

 

[Deuce Gunner]

A class action suit needs to be filed so Bullworker has to reimburse everyone who can show that they bought an X5 and then they have to destroy it.

[BigBruvOfEnglandUK]

[Joe]

Came up with a new to me exercise with the Bull Worker.

I've been checking out the Knees Over Toes Guy on YouTube, and one of the exercises he always mentions for healthy knees is for the front of the shin. Kind of like the opposite of the calf raises.

Anyway it's very simple. Put one handle of the bully on your foot and raise your toes off the floor with your heel on the ground, while holding or pushing down with the other handle. That's it.

I was surprised that I got a pump in my shins. That was a new one.

[brothersteve]

Dec 17, 2023 2:23:41 GMT Joe said:

Came up with a new to me exercise with the Bull Worker.

I've been checking out the Knees Over Toes Guy on YouTube, and one of the exercises he always mentions for healthy knees is for the front of the shin. Kind of like the opposite of the calf raises.

Anyway it's very simple. Put one handle of the bully on your foot and raise your toes off the floor with your heel on the ground, while holding or pushing down with the other handle. That's it.

I was surprised that I got a pump in my shins. That was a new one.

First time I saw a guy work the anterior tibialis in the gym was 1993.  He stood on the spotter stand behind the incline bench and let his toes hang off and, only on his heels, raised the toes up. 

The Atlas course had an exercise to rock back and forth - like do a calf raise and then come back down and raise the toes.  

[Deuce Gunner]

Bolton also had one in his Sandow 5 lb dumbbell course revision. Sandow never had it as an individual exercise in the original course. He just mentioned doing it and some other miscellaneous movements as a warm-up and limbering before starting the course. 

[determinator]

Dec 13, 2023 5:27:40 GMT BigBruvOfEnglandUK said:

That chair looks awfully familiar...

[BigBruvOfEnglandUK]

Dec 17, 2023 19:13:25 GMT Deuce Gunner said:

Bolton also had one in his Sandow 5 lb dumbbell course revision. Sandow never had it as an individual exercise in the original course. He just mentioned doing it and some other miscellaneous movements as a warm-up and limbering before starting the course. 

Are you talking about the toe raise in Bolton's book, m8?

[Deuce Gunner]

Yes I am m8.

[lardy]

Dec 17, 2023 13:18:08 GMT brothersteve said:

Dec 17, 2023 2:23:41 GMT Joe said:

Came up with a new to me exercise with the Bull Worker.

I've been checking out the Knees Over Toes Guy on YouTube, and one of the exercises he always mentions for healthy knees is for the front of the shin. Kind of like the opposite of the calf raises.

Anyway it's very simple. Put one handle of the bully on your foot and raise your toes off the floor with your heel on the ground, while holding or pushing down with the other handle. That's it.

I was surprised that I got a pump in my shins. That was a new one.

First time I saw a guy work the anterior tibialis in the gym was 1993.  He stood on the spotter stand behind the incline bench and let his toes hang off and, only on his heels, raised the toes up. 

The Atlas course had an exercise to rock back and forth - like do a calf raise and then come back down and raise the toes.  

I've always trained them when I train calves, i get shin pumps just from walking and they help with relieving pressure in the shins.
I try to work the opposite of every muscle straight after working one because I get pumped so easy (like 10 reps) and it can get quite uncomfortable.

I sometimes when lying on the floor watching tv with kids, being a big kid myself, hook my feet underneath the sofa and drag myself towards the sofa using the anterior tibialis and then push my self away with a full rom calf raise lying down (mrs calls it fidgeting), I can sometimes do this for 20 mins without realizing and then instantly regret getting up to walk off because of the pump.

[BigBruvOfEnglandUK]

Dec 18, 2023 11:12:42 GMT Deuce Gunner said:

Yes I am m8.

That exercise is in Prof. Attila's "5 lbs dumb-bell" course which Bolton also used as part of his research into light dumbbell training, m8.

[teacup]

Hi lardy,

That’s a brilliant exercise, plenty of extra resistance from the carpet too 👍

FRY includes the alternating calf raise/tibialis raise under the name of Yoga Calf Raise on page 92 of “Yoga Secrets for Extraordinary Health and Long Life”. I practice it more to sustain flexibility in the ankles than anything else but it gives a good pump after 10-20 reps.