The Boar's Fist Workout

Sensei Zechariah Murphy takes you through an intense, muscle toning workout that hits all the right spots in mere minutes of your time. With this introduction to the Boar's Fist method, you'll learn a few basic exercises used to quickly bring your body to its anaerobic limit, allowing for a faster buildup of muscle and endurance. These exercises are meant to be performed for only twenty minutes, once a week, allowing for an effective workout that takes up hardly any time. This method produces what is known as total muscle failure, and Sensei Boar promises it will increase your endurance and muscle strength much faster than traditional weight lifting.

This is an intense course, so those with heart conditions and other ailments that might compromise your health during periods of extreme exertion should consult a physician before attempting the Boar's Fist method. Otherwise, watch, learn, enjoy, and good luck keeping up!

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Deceptive

08/13/2008

~ dennisr1

I am a personal trainer. I find this exercise to be helpfull if it were part of a program. Sort of to giving your muscle a sort of shock. The teacher claims you will be tearing old muscle and rebuilding new muscle tissue , as if you were going to insrease in size. Moving that slow and holding a position is hard. You will not burn fat nor increase in size at best a bit toned.

Jason, you are a good sport!

02/26/2007

~ matt

What works:

* The content is useful and broadly applicable: A solid brief workout which can easily be done without much in the way of equipment.
* The music is cut in really nicely, high energy and helps suck the viewer in
* The preview lets us know the workout is short, can be done infrequently (once a week), and potential benefits to other activities
* It's nice to see a person do the whole thing and have a sense of what to expect before you start, both in terms of intensity and impact
* The viewer gets a strong sense of the importance of pace and how to ensure that you reach full muscle exhaustion in each position (when "cheating" to return to original position is okay, etc)

What could be improved:

* The first minute could really benefit from some more clear explanation of what the workout entails (maybe cuts to in-exercise footage while he's explaining). Even if this is right for me, it's hard to understand what I'm getting from the preview.
* Given that this can be done in a short time period and without much equipment, it seems like a lot of people would like to know how to do it alone as well. This is discussed briefly, but examples of the exercise done both with and without a partner would be great - I think if I tied my legs to that chair it would fall on me? I think this is a misunderstanding, but it would be much clearer to just see how to do it by yourself.
* There isn't much discussion about correct body position, one of the most important things for people doing exercises by themselves. There are a good examples of this, when Jason's hips come forward on the tricep exercise and in doing the chest exercise, but it feels incomplete in how it is addressed.

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Wouldn't recommend this without an actual trainer

08/13/2008

~ Jason

As the unwitting subject in the video, I've got to say that while I found it different, challenging and interesting, I wouldn't recommend trying it without a trainer coaching you and assisting you. As others have mentioned, I do have my doubts about this type of training vs. more traditional methods, but I will say that I think there could be something there. But, I think for this particular type of exercise, I wouldn't recommend it without an experienced trainer helping you out.

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