As I've said TIME AND TIME AGAIN the exercise is the MOVEMENT, not the implement lifted! One more time. The exercise is the movement. Not the implement lifted.

Just because you do a traditional exercise with a bag full of rice does not mean you just re-invented the wheel.

Wow, that's a great article Eric. It cleared up a lot of stuff (that I didn't even think, needed clearing up!)
This makes sense, all these movements are of a similar type, but people keep trying to hack them apart & make them movements unto themselves, it just confuses people more than anything.