Now that I'm finally feeling better it's time to start thinking about some offseason conditioning again.
I've been doing a "Smart Bell" workout for some 20 years now. I learned it from a friend named Emerson Wickwire who coached wrestling at the school where I taught back in the late 1990s. A friend of his, a really good wrestler named Paul Widerman, invented the Smart Bell so he could do a whole variety of dynamic strength exercises.
At long last, I've made a video of the routine I do with the Smart Bell. I'll be the first to admit it's not the best quality production--I made it all by myself with a camera on a tripod in my house--but hopefully everybody can see what's going on.
(Just in case anybody's curious: I had the radio on while I was making this. What you're hearing is the "Down In The Alley" program, hosted by Eddie Hankins each Friday morning on WEVL FM 89.9. It makes about as good a soundtrack as anything I could have come up with.)
Where does one get a Smart Bell these days? I'm not sure. They're listed on this Amazon page as "currently unavailable." As you can see there, their look has changed from the first-generation Smart Bell I'm using in the video. If you want one then I encourage you to poke around the Internet and see what you can find. There might be some on Ebay.
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