The 30-second article
• ‘Traditional’ weights room workouts can be
intimidating for those new to exercise
• Sandbells offer a more fun, less intimidating way to
train new clients, and the challenge of
unpredictability for other clients
• A sandbell workout can have clients squatting,
lunging, pushing, pulling, rotating, hingeing and
working their core without even realising it
• The benefit of creating a safe training environment,
both physically and emotionally, for your clients is an
increase in trust, which will help build your relationship.
many fitness facilities is part of why only about 14
per cent of our population ever joins a gym.
Let’s change that imaginary scenario: it’s time
for your first session, you’re super nervous and your
trainer starts you in an area with a bit of free space.
He then hands you a wetsuit material bag filled with
sand. You love the beach. The thing starts moulding
to your fingers, you can grab it, squeeze it, and did
the trainer just say throw it? Awesome! Actually,
you’ve had a pretty frustrating day, so slamming
this thing into the ground feels great. Your heart
rate is going up, but this is actually fun! Now you’re
catching it and then getting tricky by catching it
with alternating hands. You have some control of
your range of motion and you’re squatting, lunging,
pushing, pulling, rotating, hingeing and ‘working
your core’, all without knowing it, and without being
told that you’re doing it ‘wrong’.
This is where this sand-filled bag – the sandbell
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