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Does anyone have any knowledge or experience with this "Shooter's Exercise Program" marketed by SportsMedicine of Atlanta? Was wondering if it was any good. I'm looking for ideas for a better exercise program focused on better strength and conditioning for pistol shooting.

http://sportsmedicineofatlanta.com/cgi- ... 5674.12136

Thanks,
Ted Bell

For $25 I'd be willing to download it and take a look. When I was in college, I worked closely with the trainers to develop a program for our rifle team which they still use today. I'll let you know what I think of the book.

For those without a gym to use, I suggest a simple full body workout using purely body weight exercises. Unless you're really shooting high scores, a simple exercise routine will do as much good as a complicated one. For shooting, the benefit of being in better shape is more a mental benefit than a physical one.

For my personal experience the best fitness program for competitive athletes is Bikram yoga.
The cost of attendance is $2.75 a day. (90 minutes of full body excesses).

Here is a link to the US Army's new core conditioning exercises.

http://www.armyprt.com/special_conditio ... core.shtml

Very yogaesque. Deceptively simple looking, but tough. Only 6 minutes a day.

Pat McCoy wrote:Here is a link to the US Army's new core conditioning exercises.

http://www.armyprt.com/special_conditio ... core.shtml

Very yogaesque. Deceptively simple looking, but tough. Only 6 minutes a day.

Good stuff- thanks for that. I've also started doing the daily dozen series listed in the old AMU manual.

Thanks,
Ted

Sports Medicine of Atlanta is Bob Duvall, he is great guy and has been supporting the US Team at major events in the US and around the world since the 96 Olympics, including the Sydney and Athens games

pilkguns wrote:Sports Medicine of Atlanta is Bob Duvall, he is great guy and has been supporting the US Team at major events in the US and around the world since the 96 Olympics, including the Sydney and Athens games

Glad to hear it. I finally went online and bought the program this evening. It's 15 exercises and appears, to a guy with no background in physical training, to be very well rounded routine- much more balanced than anything I could have put together on my own. Plus, I'm glad to hear that my money went to a guy who supports our sport and our team. This program together with the Army's core conditioning program is probably pretty close to perfect for my needs.

Thanks,
Ted

tedbell,

Bob "Buddy" DuVall is a PhD Physical Therapist, was on the US team (shotgun), and has given of his time and ability at the National coaches Conference. Really good stuff, including a stretching handout he gave each coach that could be used with shooters.

At the conference he mentioned he would be working with the US Army to try to accomplish injury reductions, as they were still having too many due to fitness problems. His main concern was the training did not address "core strength" adequately. I've been looking for "new" core strength info from the Army since that time and just found the items I bookmarked. It's my bet that this is also his work.

I'm thankful for his input (having thought I was in pretty good shape, and finding the core program challenging).

What are the exercises like? Wonder if what the AMU is demonstrating at their clinics.

They use therabands do various shoulder exercises: pulling with arms bent 90 degrees with shoulder, elbow, and hands in the same horizontal plane; pulling with arms bent 90 degrees with elbows down by your side; pushing with arms straight in front of you; raising arms straight to a shooting position; rotator cuff exercises.

-= Jab

jabberwo wrote:What are the exercises like? Wonder if what the AMU is demonstrating at their clinics.

They use therabands do various shoulder exercises: pulling with arms bent 90 degrees with shoulder, elbow, and hands in the same horizontal plane; pulling with arms bent 90 degrees with elbows down by your side; pushing with arms straight in front of you; raising arms straight to a shooting position; rotator cuff exercises.

-= Jab

Sounds similar, although also sounds like there are some differences. If I had to guess, some of the AMU clinic exercises are probably from Dr. DuVall and therefore on this program, but there are others too, such as a fair number of dumbbell exercises.

tedbell wrote:]

Sounds similar, although also sounds like there are some differences. If I had to guess, some of the AMU clinic exercises are probably from Dr. DuVall and therefore on this program, but there are others too, such as a fair number of dumbbell exercises.

Thanks for the 411, might buy the PDF myself now.