Don't want to miss out on your workout while on vacation, but don't feel like using heavy dumbbells or kettlebells with you on the beach? Instead, you want a practical piece of fitness equipment that you can take with you everywhere? Then the Bulgarian Bag is exactly what you need! The Sandbag you can throw, catch, push, twist, pull and twirl - wherever you are! You can take it wonderfully with you on vacation, because unfilled it fits in any suitcase and filled with sand you can then comfortably on the beach!
A versatile functional training
The Bulgarian Bag is the next generation of Functional Training! But what exactly is this training tool?
A Bulgarian Bag is nothing more than a sandbag in the form of a half-moon, usually made of leather and available in different weights and colors. Due to the handles there are many different possibilities of use for a Bulgarian Bag Training. With the Bulgarian Bag can be used to perform a variety of strength, coordination and endurance exercises and strengthen the entire upper body, abdominal and hand muscles. Since the Bulgarian Bag Workout the body must constantly balance against the moving sand, muscles are also reached that are ignored in conventional dumbbell training.
The sandbag workout is a workout for the whole body, because it strengthens the upper and lower body, as well as the core and torso stability. With the Sandbag can be used to perform swinging, slinging and lifting exercises as well as grip and catch training. Due to the fact that the sandbag the sandbag is held by the handles, the grip strength and the forearm muscles are also activated. With the Bulgarian Bag traditional fitness exercises such as pull-ups, squats, push-ups and dips, which are all performed with the user's own weight. can be perfectly combined.
The advantage of sandbag training with the Bulgarian Bag is that the weight of the sandbag can be changed at any time. You fill the bag individually to your liking and can adjust the resistance during training as you like.
Ivan Ivanov invents the first Bulgarian Bag
Where did this novel fitness trend come from? The Bulgarian Bag in 2005 by the Bulgarian Ivan Ivanova former professional wrestler and coach of the American national wrestling team. His goal was to improve the conventional strength and endurance training as well as the grip strength of wrestlers. Because, in his opinion, there was a lack of a powerful and functional training tool for wrestlers, with which the whole body could be trained.
Inspired was Ivan Ivanov was inspired by the tradition that prevails at Bulgarian wrestling festivals, where sheep and other animals are carried on the shoulders, because Bulgarians firmly believe that carrying animals on their shoulders makes them stronger.
Buy Bulgarian Bags
Not only the American company Suples produces the practical sandbagsbut also the Gelsenkirchen company all4gym. There are the Bulgarian Bags are available in the colors black, gray, green, orange and yellow and in the weight classes 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24 kilograms.
Are you curious and would like to buy Bulgarian Bags and try this new Sandbag Training try it out? Via fitnessmarkt.de you can buy the sandbags directly from the manufacturer all4gym!
Image source: all4gym
Published on: 23 September 2016