I've read various topics which include this principle. Is it true that it's a good exercise for the abdominals? Sounds to me that it might damage the spleen and/or other internal organs.
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Thread: Medicine ball drop on abs?!
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01-01-2007, 06:15 PM #1
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It's a variation of what's called "body hardening." It's designed to toughen an area of the body by numbing it to pain. In the Marines, we strike each other on various nerve centers, including the abdomen, over and over in order to strengthen these areas and diminish pain felt from a blow. It sounds like a medicine ball drop is something similar.
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ya in the Marines we did body harding but that was for conditioning not for building muscle
your better off having you and someone else exchange punches to the stomach, then using a medicine ball
What are you training for?Last edited by ExtremistPullup; 01-01-2007 at 07:57 PM.
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