Ground was way too slick to tumble this morning so I really just spent the time working on flexibility and mobility. Actually, a great morning.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Monday night part 5: Romanian Deadlifts
Upped it to 245 tonight for 2 sets of 15 and one set of 12. Here's one of the sets of 15.
Monday night part 4: 1-leg Hamstring curls/ Hip thrusts.
These really got the hamstrings firing tonight. A great 3 sets of them on each leg.
Monday night part 2: Sissy Squats
Love these. Nailed 3 sets of 10 with bodyweight plus 20 pounds, making sure to get a nice pause in he stretch position. Awesome stuff.
Monday June 29th night part 1: Hack Squats
Hack Squats felt awesome last night. Closing in on 400 pounds for them. Nailed 4 sets of 5 with 385 pounds and it felt really strong. Here's the final set.
Monday morning part 4: Parallet combo 2
These just weren't happening today. Oh well, I'll get them next time.
Monday morning part 2: Rings Combo
Changed up the rings combination a little. Tough, but awesome. not my best performance of them, but that's why we practice.
Monday June 29th morning part 1: Parallet Como 1
Rough day for the first parallet combination. Out of 5 sets, I think I had 3 good ones. Here's one of the good ones. Lol! Shout out to my beautiful bride who's on vacation in the background, :) !!
Friday, June 26, 2015
Friday June 26th morning wrap up
This morning was all about isometric power flexes for the traps, upper back, mid back, lower back, lats and midsection. Felt really good!!
Thursday June 25th night wrap up
For tonight's back off week training I hit some nice and powerful isometric power flexes for the shoulders, biceps and midsection. Fun and awesome stuff!!
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Thursday June 25th morning wrap up
This morning was all about the lower body. Hit some powerful isometric power flexes for the quads, butt, hips, groin, hamstrings, calves, tibia muscles and feet. And, of course for the midsection. Great stuff this morning.
WEdnesday June 25th wrap up
This morning was all about the joint mobility and flexibility. No Isometric power flexes at all. Took the night off completely.
Feeling awesome hungry for next week.
Tuesday June 23rd night wrap up
For tonight's back off week training I nailed some strong isometric power flexes for the lats, upper back, mid back, lower back and midsection. Felt nice and felt strong.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Garage fun part 2
Back in the garage, having fun and practicing my back archer and back Steve Reeves poses.
Always fun!!
Tuesday June 23rd morning wrap up
Started out today with some good joint mobility and flexibility work along with my isometric power flexes for the chest, triceps and midsection. Great way to start out the day.
Monday June 22nd night wrap up
Had an awesome night of back off week training. Nailed some nice isometric power flexes for the quads, glutes, hips, groin, hamstrings, tibia muscles, calves, feet and midsection. Felt strong and awesome.
Monday, June 22, 2015
Monday June 22nd morning wrap up
It's back off week time.
This morning, along with my joint mobility and flexibility work, nailed some good isometric power flexes for the shoulders, neck, biceps and midsection. Felt good and a great way to start out the day.
Friday June 19th wrap up
Hit some nice isometric power flexes for the back and midsection this morning. Then played around with bent arm levers, handstands, butterfly kicks, jump spinning kicks, leaps, rolls, etc. Fun time.
This evening, took the night off and started the back off week early.
Friday, June 19, 2015
Having some handstand fun!!
Having a ton of fun playing around with handstands at a variety of places this morning.
You have to love handstands, they're result producing, powerful, awesome and fun!
You have to love handstands, they're result producing, powerful, awesome and fun!
Thursday night part 5: Isometric Curls
No video for this one.
Nailed 1 set per side of isometric curls in each of the following positions: start, middle and finished. Powerful stuff.
Nailed 1 set per side of isometric curls in each of the following positions: start, middle and finished. Powerful stuff.
Thursday night part 4: Barbell Concentration Curls
Jumped up in weight and hit 3 strong sets of 8 reps with 195 pounds.
Thursday night part 3: Lateral Raise Isometrics
Didn't get a video for this one.
Hit some strong sets of isometric lateral raises. Nailed 1 set per side of the start position, middle position and the finished position. Powerful stuff.
Hit some strong sets of isometric lateral raises. Nailed 1 set per side of the start position, middle position and the finished position. Powerful stuff.
Thursday night part 2: Rear delt raises
Jumped up to 108 pounds for the rear delt raises, and nailed them. Felt awesome!
Thursday June 18th night part 1: Handstand push ups
Pushing the reps up to sets of 30 tonight. Felt good.
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Doing my best Steve Reeves
Steve Reeves has long been one of my favorite people in all of physical culture. Here's my best try at his classic pose.
Me:
And Steve:
Me:
And Steve:
Thursday morning part 4: L-sit to planche and more
Hit a nice and strong 4 sets of these. Getting the planch much better. Also hit 5 sets of back of wrist push ups, 3 sets of neck work in each direction and Isometric power flexes for the entire lower body and the midsection. A solid morning practice!
Thursday June 18th morning part 1: Muscle up transitions
Working the weak points. Feeling pretty strong on the transition wok on all 5 sets.
Wednesday June 17th wrap up
Alright, no video for today.
Started out the morning with the normal joint mobility and flexibility work. Hit some Isometric power flexes for the traps, forearms and midsection. Then some isometric work for the forearms. Nailed 5 sets of Pseudo Maltese Push ups, 100 pull ups and 100 lunges. Finished off with a volume based midsection session. Great practice.
This evening I hit 3 sets of 10 of each of the 7 Tiger Moves, using a ton of tension and resistance. Nailed 6 sets of 10 for Eagle flexes as well. Awesome evening training!!
Started out the morning with the normal joint mobility and flexibility work. Hit some Isometric power flexes for the traps, forearms and midsection. Then some isometric work for the forearms. Nailed 5 sets of Pseudo Maltese Push ups, 100 pull ups and 100 lunges. Finished off with a volume based midsection session. Great practice.
This evening I hit 3 sets of 10 of each of the 7 Tiger Moves, using a ton of tension and resistance. Nailed 6 sets of 10 for Eagle flexes as well. Awesome evening training!!
Thursday night part 4: Isometric shrugs and midsection work
Finished off the night with 3 sets of isometric shrugs. Then hit my isometric sit ups, 1-leg isometric leg raises and isometric side bends. Great training!
Tuesday night part 3: 1-arm rows
Second time using 216 pounds for my 3 sets of 5 on each side. Getting better with it.
Tuesday June 16th night part 1: Front Lever and Scapula work
Not my best on the lever today, but they're still improving. Strong on the scapula work.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Tuesday morning play time
Have you gone out and just played today.
I finished off my morning practice with some fun, improvisational play. It felt awesome.
I finished off my morning practice with some fun, improvisational play. It felt awesome.
Tuesday morning part 12: Push up to handstand and more
Hit 5 nice sets of these. Also worked in 100 lunges, 5 sets of back o wrist push ups, isometric work for the hand extenders and isometric power flexes for the chest, triceps and midsection. Great morning practice.
Tuesday morning part 11: Floor circle combination
This morning was my first time practicing this combination, and I think it went pretty well. Cast position to floor circle front split to straddle up handstand to forward roll. Fun stuff!
Tuesday morning part 9: Handspring to dive roll and Dive roll to headspring
These are feeling strong
Tuesday morning part 8: Aerial cartwheel to butterfly kick
First time with this combo. Aside from having to think about the transition, it went pretty darn well.
Tuesday morning part 7: Butterfly kick to aerial cartwheel
They still have a little ways to go, but these are getting so much better. I love it!
Tuesday morning part 4: Butterfly Kicks
Love me some butterfly kicks, these have come along way and are feeling awesome.
Tuesday morning part 3: Aerial cartwheels
Hitting some nice one's today. Right side is coming along nicely. Still needs work, but getting better. Left side is still struggling.
Tuesday June 16th morning part 1: Handstands
Always hitting the basics. Worked on 5 different entries into the handstand, a different one each set.
Monday night art 5: Romanian Deadlifts
Nailed 3 strong sets of 15 reps with 235 for these tonight. Felt good.
Monday night part 4: Hamstring Bridge
Hit 3 nice sets of 10 reps for these. It still amazes me how such a small movement can hit the hamstrings so damn hard when you do it correctly, lol!
Monday night part 2: Sissy Squats
Went on to 3 really strong sets of Sissy Squats, really focusing on the stretch position.
Monday June 15th night part 1: Hack Squats
Started off the night really strongly with some nice hack squats. Nailed my sets of 5 with 365 pounds pretty easily. Definitely have to up the weight next time.
Monday, June 15, 2015
Monday morning part 4: parallet combo 2 and more
Now, this parallet combo was giving me some trouble. Moving to the straddle planche and keeping the arms locked just wasn't happening. Oh well, it'll get better. Along with this I also hit an isometric session for the neck, isometric power flexes for the shoulders, biceps and midsection; 5 sets of back of wrist push ups, 5 sets of pseudo maltese push ups and 100 pull ups. An awesome morning practice.
Monday morning part 3: Rings combo
The new rings combination is coming along nicely. The front lever and the back lever have a lot of work, but everything's getting better.
Monday morning part 2: Parallet combo 1
Ahh..these went really well today. 5 sets, 5 pretty darn good combos. Here's the final set.
Monday June 15th morning part 1: Muscle ups
My head wasn't really into these today, but they still went pretty well.
Sunday June 14th Tumbling
Had a wonderful afternoon of gymnastics, acrobatics and tumbling with my beautiful bride. It was awesome, especially when she was nailing some awesome combos.
Friday night part 5: Isometric triceps and more
I missed videoing any of this. So, I finished off the night with 3 strong sets of isometric triceps extensions on each side. Then, moved onto 3 sets of isometric sit ups, 3 sets per side of 1-leg isometric leg raises, and 3 sets per side of isometric side bends. Great training tonight.
Friday night part 4: French Press
These are feeling really good. Went back up to 125 pounds for the 3 sets of 10 and felt strong with it. Good stuff.
Friday June 12th night part 1: Tuck Planche Push ups
Hit a pretty strong 4 sets of 3 reps for my tuck planche push ups. Trying hard to keep a good tight tuck planche position throughout the entire thing.
Friday, June 12, 2015
Thursday night part 7: Tight Ach Rocks
And the final set of tight arch rocks to finish off the training.
Thursday night part 6: Leg Raises
Love these! Hit 3 sets in a super set with the tight arch rocks. Used a deliberately slow and controlled movement and tried for a nice pause on the last rep. Great stuff.
Thursday night part 5: Isometric Biceps Curls
Forgot to video any part of these, so here's the wrap up. Hit 3 sets on each arm of 1-arm biceps isometric curls. Hit a set at the start position, the middle position and the finished position. Awesome stuff.
Thursday night part 4: Barbell Concentration Curls
These felt awesome tonight. Nailed a strong 3 sets of 10 with 185 pounds. Here's the final set.
Thursday night part 2: Rear delt flies
Jumped up to 103 pounds for these and hit a nice strong 3 sets of 10 on each side. Felt much better than the presses.
Thursday June 11th night part 1: Military Press
A rough night for the military press. I was able to crank out a few sets of 3 with 175, but my normal weight just wasn't budging.
Thursday, June 11, 2015
What happens when you're fooling around during morning practice?
If you're me, apparently you take cornball pictures, lol!
Thursday morning part 4: L-sit to Planche and more
Nailing a good and solid 4 sets of L-sit to Advanced Tuck Planche on the parallel bars. Feeling good. Also hit 3 sets of 10 for dynamic neck work in each direction, Isometric power flexes for the entire lower body and midsection, 5 sets of back of wrist push ups, 5 sets of straddle planche push up variations, 100 pull ups, 100 lunges. Awesome morning training.
Thursday morning part 3: Iron Cross Pumps
Nailed a nice and strong 4 sets of these today. Here's the 4th.
Thursday morning part 2: Tiger Bend Eccentrics
Whew!! These were rough today. Out of 5 sets, this was the best rep of them all.
Thursday June 11th morning part 1: Muslce Up Transitions
Took 5 sets just to work on my weak point, the transition of the muscle up. Felt really good to get in deep with this part of the movement.
Wednesday June 10th wrap up
Wrapping up Wednesday morning's practice. Then, I took the evening off from training.
Tuesday night part 4: Isometric Shrugs and more
Here's the 3rd and final set of isometric shrugs. Felt strong and awesome. Afterwards I hit 3 sets of isometric sit ups, 3 sets of 1-leg isometric leg raises per leg and 3 sets of isometric side bends per side. Great training tonight!
Tuesday night part 3: 1-arm Rows
Upped the weight to 216 pounds (2-88 pound K-bells and 2-20 pounders), and it felt challenging but good. Here's the final set.
Tuesday night part 2: Reverse Yewkis
Love this movement, talk about a lat killer. Here's the final set.
Tuesday June 9th night part 1: Front Levers and Scapula work
Hitting the 3rd and final set of these two movements. Feeling pretty good. The levers still have a ways to go, but they're improving. The Scapula work is strong.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Tuesday morning part 11: Y-scales and more
I always finish off my morning practice with some Y-scales. Along with these I also hit 5 sets of back of wrist push ups, 100 lunges, Isometric work for the hand extensors and Isometric Power Flexes for the chest, triceps and midsection. Great practice today.
Tuesday morning part 7: Butterfly kick to Aerial cartwheel
These still need work, but not bad at all for the 2nd time practicing them.
Tuesday June 9th morning part 1: Handstands
Worked on 5 different entries to the handstand. Here's some straddle ups.
Monday night part 5: Romanian Deadlifts
Upped the weight to 235 pounds and nailed a strong 2 sets of 15 and 1 set of 10. Here's the 2nd of 3 sets.
Monday night part 2: Sissy Squats
Feeling good with these. Getting a strong range of motion and a great pause in the stretch position. Great stuff.
Monday June 8th night part 1: Back Squats
Started off the night with some strong sets of back squats. After a few warm up sets, nailed 4 sets of 15 with 405 pounds. Here's the final set.
Monday, June 8, 2015
Monday morning part 4: Parallet combo 2 and more
I'll admit it, these were a killer today. This was the best of the bunch. Working hard on making sure that the arms are straight the entire time. After these I hit a full isometric neck session, Isometric power flexes for the shoulders, biceps and midsection, 5 sets of back of wrist push ups, 5 sets of Pseudo Maltese push ups an 4 sets of pull ups. Great practice overall.
Monday morning part 3: Rings combo
Out of my 4 sets of these, this was probably the worst one. Feeling good improvements all the way through.
Monday morning part 2: Parallet combo 1
Hit 4 strong sets of these, and 1 pretty sucky one. Can't complain about that.
Monday June 8th morning part 1: Muslce ups
These are feeling really powerful. Almost no assistance and still nailing them pretty well.
Friday night aprt 5: Isometric Triceps and more
Wrapping up the isometric triceps work. From here I moved onto a nice isometric midsection session that included 3 sets of iso sit-ups, 3 sets on each side of 1-leg iso leg raises and 3 sets of iso side bends. Great night of training.
Friday night part 2: Body Flies
One of my favorites. Nothing hits the chest quite like these. Hit 3 sets of 10 making sure to have a 5 count hold at both the stretched and contracted positions. Awesome stuff.
Friday June 5th night part 1: Tucked Planche Push ups
Hitting a nice and solid 4 sets of triples for these. Trying hard to not let the hips drop, to keep in that strong planche position the entire time. Awesome stuff
Friday, June 5, 2015
Friday morning part 9: Level Change Pull ups or The Salmon Ladder pull up
Thought I'd play with these at the end of practice today. Hit 5 set and felt strong. Awesome movement.
Friday morning part 8: 360 jumps
These felt great. Grass was still wet and slick so I didn't trust the 720's
Friday morning part 4: Floor circle to front split
Fist time doing these in about 10 months. Rusty, but not bad.
Friday June 5th morning part 1: Handstands
Worked on 5 different entries today, here's are the straddle ups.
Thursday night part 4: Barbell Concentration Curls
Nailed a nice and strong 3 sets of 10 with 165 pounds for these. Great stuff!!
Thursday night part 3: 1-arm Isometric Lateral Raises
Finished off the shoulder girdle with some nice and tough 1-arm Isometric lateral raises. Hit 3 sets on each side, focusing on the start, mid and finished positions. Great stuff.
Thursday night part 2: Rear delt raises
Nailed a strong 3 sets o 6 on each side with 100.5 pounds. Felt awesome. It's an 88 pound K-bell with a 10 pound and a 2.5 pound weight plate tied to it. Awesome stuff.
Thursday June 4th night part 1: Handstand Push Ups
Nailed a nice and strong 4 sets of 25 reps for the handstand push up tonight. Felt good
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Thrusday morning part 5: Straddle Planche Push up Variation
Finished out the day with 5 sets of these, 100 pull ups, 100 dips, Isometric Power Flexes for the entire lower body and midsection, and neck work. Awesome morning!!
Thursday morning part 3: Iron Cross Pumps
Bumped these up to 5 count holds instead of 3 count holds and hit sets of 5 instead of sets of 3. Felt strong an awesome.
Thursday morning part 2: Tiger bend negatives
Decided to work seriously on the tiger bend, so I started out hitting the eccentric portion hard. Here's one of the reps from the 5th set.
Thursday June 4th morning part 1: Mucle Up Transition Negatives
Focused just on the eccentric portion of the transition today and it felt awesome.
Tuesday night part 4: Isometric shrugs and some midsection training
Nailed a strong 3 sets of the Isometric shrugs. Then finished off with 3 sets of Isometric sit-ups, 3 sets of 1-leg Isometric leg raises on each side and 3 sets of Isometric side bends to each side. Awesome night of training.
Tuesday night part 3: 1-arm Rows
Feeling strong here. Nailed sets of 5 with 206 pounds. Awesome stuff.
Tuesday June 2nd night part 1: Front Lever Hold and Scapula work
Both the lever and the scapula work felt pretty nice tonight.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Tuesday morning part 10: Push up to Handstand
I'm not saying that I invented these, but I've never seen them before, lol. I was thinking to myself, why not try to go from a push up right up into a handstand and it worked. Hit a nice strong 5 sets of these to finish off the morning practice.
Also, hit some isometric power flexes for the chest, triceps and midsection. Some isometrics for th hand extensors and 100 lunges.
Also, hit some isometric power flexes for the chest, triceps and midsection. Some isometrics for th hand extensors and 100 lunges.
Tuesday Morning part 9: 1/2 floor circles
Getting back to these after a few weeks off, and they felt pretty nice.
Tuesday Morning part 8: Handspring to Dive roll and Dive roll to Headspring
These felt pretty darn nice.
Tuesday morning part 7: Butterfly Kick to Aerial Cartwheel (No hand cartwheel)
First day for trying these ever. While they were a little sloppy (this was the final set of them), I have to say, not too bad. Especially since I haven't been practicing the aerial cartwheel for the past few weeks do to weather conditions. I'm excited to see where these go to next.
Tuesday morning part 6: Butterfly kick to 1-arm cartwheel
Starting with the butterfly kick felt even better.
Tuesday morning part 5: 1-arm cartwheel to butterfly kick
Even rusty this combo went pretty darn well.
Tuesday morning part 3: No handed cartwheels (aerial cartwheels)
Felt good to get back to these after a few rainy weeks. A little rusty, but not bad.
Tuesday morning part 2: 1-arm cartwheels
It was so nice, after so many slick and wet mornings, to get back outside and tumble. Hit some strong sets of 1-arm cartwheels.
Tuesday June 2nd morning part 1: Handstands
Worked on 5 different entries into the handstand, a different one on each set. Here's some cartwheel to handstands
Monday nght part 6: 1-leg isometric leg curls
Much like the isometric leg extensions, these are brutal and awesome. Nailed 3 sets on each leg ad felt great.
Monday night part 5: Romanian Deadlifts
Nailed a nice 3 sets of 15 with 225 for the Romanian's tonight. Felt awesome!
Monday night part 4: Hamstring Bridges
It's amazing how such a small movement can completely cramp up your hamstrings. LOL! Here's the final set.
Monday night part 3: 1-leg Isometric Leg extensions
These are just plain brutal, which is why I love them. Nailed a nice 3 sets on each leg, 1 set in each position.
Monday night part 2: Sissy Squats
For the stretch position movement it was Sissy Squat time. Made sure to really get a good stretch on every set, and to hold the stretch for a few counts. Awesome stuff.
Monday June 1st night part 1: Hack Squats
Started off tonight with 4 sets of Hack Squats. Felt awkward but good. Nailed my 5's with 365.
Monday, June 1, 2015
Monday morning part 4: parallet combo 2 and moreeeee
The second parallet combo is coming along, but frustrating because it's hard as hell, lol! Wouldn't be worth it if it wasn't. Start in a handstand, move to straddle handstand, transfer down into a straddle planche, then to an l-sit. Great stuff, and getting and keeping those arms straight is a bear. Finished up with some isometric neck work, 5 sets of back of wrist push ups, 5 sets of Pseudo Maltese push ups, 4 sets of pull ups and Isometric Power Flexes for the midsection, biceps and shoulders. Awesome morning practice today :)
Monday morning part 3: Rings Combo
The 2nd time practicing the new rings combo. Feeling foreign and challenging, but coming along. V-sit hand to inverted hand to front lever to inverted hand to tucked back lever to inverted hand to pike to German hand to pike to inverted hang to pike to v-sit in top support to beginning. Rough and not pretty yet, but getting there.
Monday morning part 2: parallet combo 1
Nailed a really strong 5 sets of the new combo. L-sit to handstand to bent arm lever to l-sit. Getting better and better.
Monday June 1 morning part 1: Muscle ups
Hitting a strong 5 sets of muscle ups with very little assistance. Feeling really good.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday May 29-31 wrap up
Wrapping up all the happening from Friday night through all day Sunday.
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