They teach you how to move your body while you have a weight overhead. It is a great exercise for shoulder stabilization.
This is an exercise that was used by Turkish Janissary Soldiers, and wrestlers, which gave the name to this exercise.
A great way to fine tune and challenge your Turkish get up exercise is to do this with a water bottle.
This exercise is fun, challenging and a good tool to get your athletes interacting with each other during practices.
Even though it is a single person exercise it can be a good team building exercise since observing athletes can/will provide verbal feedback to the person who is executing this exercise.
Athletes performing this exercise can use verbal feedback additional to the “Closed loop” neuromuscular process at early stages of performing this exercise.
Athletes such as BJ Penn explains this type of training as tools to not improve the power of the car but to enhance the driving skills of the driver.
At the end of the day the most successful athletes are not the strongest, most explosive, well conditioned, or even most technical athletes but they are the ones that have the ability to move well and react perfectly.
Being able to move well will contribute to having a better technique, as well as timing.
Basically, the meaning of this is that this quality is very well connected to the athlete’s conditioning, strength and technique.
I think if we tested athletes like Royce Gracie, Rhonda Rousey, Jon Jones, and Connor McGregor for strength, endurance, and technique and their opponents for these qualities, there is a chance that they might not be better than their opponents that they beat during MMA fights in all of these area,.
Please don’t get me wrong, I highly believe strength, conditioning, technique, and mental toughness are super important.
It is no coincidence Gracie family grapplers focus on yoga and balancing exercises.
Some might get confused and think how a good technique is connected to strength and conditioning or mental toughness.
If you have good technique you will be more efficient you won’t need/use as much strength.
If you have bad strength and conditioning and good technique, during bouts you can get sloppy due to fatigue and execute poor technique.
Having mental toughness can help performance and make sure athletes don’t choke or ensure that their bodies do not negatively respond to stress hormones like cortisol.
If you have a strong mind and focus, you have much more chances of executing your game plan and your technique successfully.
Judo legends like Saigo, who had such good mental toughness, was able to transfer his focus and strong mental strength in his technique during bouts.
Figure skaters are known to use visualization techniques to train their mind to improve their ability to execute a perfect technique.
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