REVIEW:
HANGING, NOT ALWAYS A PUNISHMENT?
Researchers gauge the numerous physical effects of this popular
form of bodyweight training.
WORDS: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MIKE CLIMSTEIN & JOE WALSH
Title: Physiologic and metabolic effects of a
suspension training workout
Author: Drs Dudgeon and colleagues. (Dept
of Health & Human Performance, College of
Charleston/Citadel, South Carolina, USA)
Source: International Journal of Sports
Science (2015).
Volume 5(s), pp 6572. Available free online: article.sapub.
org/10.5923.j.sports.20150502.04.html
Introduction: The health and fitness
industry is a vibrant, continually evolving
one. We never fail to be amazed by the new
trends in equipment, nutrition/diets and, of
course, training techniques. Admittedly, a
number (quite a number actually) of training
fads have come and gone over the years,
and no doubt this will continue well into the
future. Those that stick around tend to be the
ones that have scientifically proven benefits.
One type of training that is of high interest
is cross training, not the original concept of
training for two or more sports, rather the
type of training that includes an ‘all body’
focus and stresses a number of different
components of fitness in the same workout.
A significant portion of fitness enthusiasts
are, unfortunately, time-poor and always
looking for a novel and effective technique to
train all the entities of fitness (cardiovascular,
muscular strength, muscular endurance,
muscular power and flexibility) in a single
workout. This leads us to the topic of this
Re