oh boy...
Just to clarify in case some folks don't know: A couple years ago, JP was heavily into Swiss ball stuff, and he posted the above picture on t-mag's forum. The thread turned into a very lengthy argument, with a lot of the t-mag forum crew bashing JP quite a bit. Ultimately, JP did a lot of research and decided that a lot of his Swiss ball exercises (including the one in the photo) were not effective, and he moved on to better methods.
In my opinion, his ability to do the research, admit that he was wrong, and evolve his training methods took a lot of guts and intelligence.
And, on a side note, I think doing weighted squats on a ball--while probably dangerous and not useful--is a very impressive trick.
-Jake
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