Full Body Dumbbell Exercises - Getting Back in Shape with 19th century Wooden Dumbbells - E08

Описание: In this video, as part of a new workout routine, we continue a number of dumbbell exercises from various 19th Century and early 20th century texts, some of which we believe haven't been practiced or demonstrated in at least a century or more.

The previous video in the series, containing Part I of the dumbbell exercises, can be viewed here:

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This represents Part 2 of Day 4 of the "Getting Back in Shape" experimental series in which we use a variety of historical physical fitness methods from the past to get back into shape. If you want to know how and why we’re doing this whole series, I encourage you to watch the first introductory video about it here:

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Playlist for the entire series (thus far) here:

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Stay tuned for the next episode in which we move on to other interesting exercises from the past!

DISCLAIMER:

This series is for historical interest only. It is not intended to be instructional, and is not a replacement for a qualified instructor or therapist who can guide, observe and correct you in person. The original historical directions for these exercises, which are not fully quoted and explored in the video, are very precise—the positioning, alignment of the joints, feet, hands, etc.. And if you get that wrong, it’s definitely possible to injure yourself.

This video is an EXPERIMENT, and many of these historical methods are as of yet untested in modern times. I don’t even know if I’m going to recommend them myself after practicing them for weeks or months. It is possible they could lead to injury.

I have and will be using the actual antique apparatus intended for these methods. I can tell you that if you swap out the light wooden historical apparatus that you see me use in the videos with heavy modern mass-produced apparatus, such as modern clubs or dumbbells, it is definitely possible (if not probable) to injure yourself.

For all of these reasons I caution you not to try to follow along and do these exercises at home, but to perform such exercises only under the supervision of a qualified and experienced instructor or master. For the benefit of viewers, I will be linking to such instructors and masters in some of these videos.