What is this exercise, and what does it do?

mrthingyx · 3 Aug 2012 at 14:45

I keep seeing people do this in my work gym... it involves:

Person standing straight with a dumbell in each hand: normally around 2kgs;
Person then leans from side to side like a weeble.

I'm struggling to find an example on the internet, because it doesn't come under obliques, back (upper, middle or lower) from my quick searching.

Anybody have any ideas? :confused:

And before anybody asks, no, I have no interest in swapping my barbell workouts for this... 'exercise'.

mrthingyx · 3 Aug 2012 at 15:55

It's almost always the ladies... as a result, I'm not sure whether the exercise has been made popular by an exercise video, or popularised by some fad routine that doesn't actually help anything.

I'm with icecold on this, anyway...

mrthingyx · 6 Aug 2012 at 14:22

Human body is not meant to move (i.e. be loaded) that way.

I certainly wouldn't do the equivalent forwards and backwards, considering how much effort I put into stabilising my core in the first place...?

Side planks are much better as they exercise a lot more muscles.and stabilise across a number of joints (i.e. are a comound exercise).

For instance, I could get bigger guns by doing bicep curls, but don't bother as - in isolation - big biceps aren't much point without a strong grip, good shoulders, back and legs to stabilise... so I do chinups/pull-upps, deadlifts and rows instead.

mrthingyx · 6 Aug 2012 at 14:40

kai said:
I hope the person is a women, otherwise 2kg each side, man up and get a 30kg each hand or a 25kg plate D

*ohh the name i know them as is standing oblique crunches.

Weeble exercise. A name as ridiculous as the exercise itself.

mrthingyx · 7 Aug 2012 at 16:02

I occasionally train with the guy who founded Core Cambridge, as well as some of the S&C coaches who work there...

Anyway, I'm personally all for "what works" so if somebody REALLY wants to do the weeble workout, then great. As long as they're aware of the limitations of the exercise.

mrthingyx · 7 Aug 2012 at 17:31

It is pretty awesome, although they are all maniacs.

I actually train at my office in Cherry Hinton (Core spec'd the gym, which is double awesome).

However, I'm trying to find a decent iron gym to practice heavier (for me) snatches and jerks, as the guys in the office next to the gym complain when I drop the barbells.