Wrapping up my Friday morning practice.
Friday, May 29, 2015
Thursday part 8: Tight Arch Rocks
One of my favorite lower back movements. Nailed 3 sets of 15 for these.
Thursday part 7: Leg Raises
Hit a nice strong 3 sets of 10 using a deliberate slow and controlled action.
Thursday part 6: Isometric biceps curls
Hit 3 strong sets of isometric arm curls on each side. Hit them at the start, mid and finished position.
Thursday part 5: Barbell Concentration Curls
Nailed a nice 3sets of 10 with 155 pounds on these. Felt really good.
Thursday part 4: Isometric lateral raises
Nailed some strong isometric lateral raises on each side. Hit them at the start, mid and finished positions. Powerful stuff.
Thursday night part 3: Rear delt raises
Nailed 3 strong sets of 6 with 93 pounds for these. Felt good.
Thursday night part 2: handstand push ups
Was frustrated with the military presses. So, after the final set I immediately jumped to the wall for a set of 25 handstand push ups.
Thursday May 28th evening part 1: Military Press
Rough night on the Military press. Struggled hard for 4 sets of 3 with 185 pounds. Here's the final set.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Thursday morning part 4: L-sit to Planche and more
Finished off the morning with L-sit to Planche on the parallel bars. They felt pretty good, much better positioning. Yay Improvements!! Also hit 5 sets of back of wrist push ups and some Isometric Power Flexes for the entire lower body and midsection. Wonderful practice today.
Thursday Morning part 3: Iron Cross Pumps
I love these. Here's the final set of the day on them. They're coming along nicely.
Thursday morning part 2: Parallet combo
A different camera angle for today. Set 5 of the L-sit to handstand to bent-arm lever to L-sit combo. 5 pretty strong sets today.
Thursday May 28th morning part1: Muscle ups
Hitting some solid ones today with very little assistance.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Tuesday night part 4: Isometric shrugs and more
Hit 3 sets of isometric shrugs. Then finished off then night with a good and solid isometric midsection session.
Tuesday night part 3: 1-arm rows
Nailed a nice 3 sets of 5 on each side for 1 arm rows with 196 pounds. Felt good and didn't bother the pulled oblique muscle.
Tuesday night part 2: Reverse Yewkis
Hitting some tuck lever reverse yewkis for 3 sets of 5. Felt good.
Tuesday morning part 5: Butterfly kicks
First side was awesome. Then, my pulled oblique muscle acted up and hurt a ton so I called an end to practice for the day.
Tuesday morning part 3: Front flips
It's rainy outside, so that means flipping around in the house, Woo Hoo!!
Tuesday morning part 2: handstand
Worked on 5 different ways to get into a handstand today. Here's my straddle ups.
Monday night part 7: V-sits
Originally this was going to be l-sits, but they went higher on each set. Lol. Finished the night with 3 sets of v-sits on the parallel bars.
Modnay night part 6: isometric leg curls
Finished off the hamstrings with 3 sets of 1-leg isometric leg curls on each side. Great stuff.
Monday night part 5: Romanian deadlifts
Stretch position hamstrings calls for Romanian deadlifts. Hit 3 sets of 12 with 225.
Monday night part 4: 1-leg Leg curl
Hitting the mid range movement for position of flexion hamstrings with some strong 1-leg leg curl/hip thrusts. Did 4 sets of 15 on each leg.
Monday night part 3: Isometric leg extensions
For a contracted position movement, I hit 3 sets (1 in the start position, 1 in the mid position and 1 in the finished position) of isometric leg extensions on each side. Great stuff.
Monday night part 2: Sissy Squats
For the stretch position movement in my position of flexion training I hit 3 sets of 15 reps of Sissy Squats with my bodyweight plus 45 pounds. Here's the final set.
Monday May 25th night part 1: Squats
Working on some position of flexion style training tonight. Started out with 2 warm up sets of squats, then hit 4 sets of 15 with 405 pounds. Here's the final set.
Monday morning part 4: New Parallet Combo 2
The second of the new parallet combos. Handstand to straddle planche to l-sit. Not bad at all.
After this I hit 5 sets of back of wrist push ups, 5 sets of Atlas push ups, 100 pull ups, Isometric work for the neck and Isometric Peak contraction work for the shoulders, biceps and midsection. Awesome morning.
After this I hit 5 sets of back of wrist push ups, 5 sets of Atlas push ups, 100 pull ups, Isometric work for the neck and Isometric Peak contraction work for the shoulders, biceps and midsection. Awesome morning.
Monday Morning part 3: New Rings Combo
Changed up the rings combo to add in both front lever and back lever work, awesome stuff.
Monday morning part 2: New Parallet Combo
Monday May 25th morning part 1: Muscle ups
Hitting 5 strong sets of muscle ups with some slight assistance. Feeling great. Also did a nice non-assisted strict muscle up as well, it's all coming together.
Saturday May 23rd wrap up
Wrapping up the final day of the back off week. Yeah, new stuff on Monday!!
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Wednesday May 20th wrap up
Wrapping up Hump day. Talking about both the morning and evening sessions from Wednesday:
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Monday May 18th wrap up
Wrapping up both the morning and evening sessions of the first day of the back off week!!
Monday, May 18, 2015
Friday night part 4: Isometric Triceps and midsection work
To finish out the night, nailed 3 sets per side of some triceps isometrics. This is the 2nd set on each side, also did a set on each side at the top position and the bottom position of the movement. Then nailed a strong isometric midsection session. Awesome stuff!
Friday night part 3: Isometric chest work
Here are two sets done in the mid-position for isometric contractions for the chest. Hit these as well as 2 sets in the top position and 2 sets in the bottom position. Awesome stuff.
Friday night part 2: Body Flies
After the dips it was onto 4 sets of body flies on the Jungle Gym. Felt strong and good. Great chest movement.
Friday, May 15, 2015
Friday Morning part 8: Straddle Planche Push up variation
Finished up with 5 strong sets of these plus 100 back of wrist push ups, 100 pull ups and 100 lunges; and some good hand extension work. Great practice this morning.
Friday morning part 7: 720 jumps
Okay, I'll admit it. These stunk today, and I twisted the ankle on one of them. Oh well, what can you do?
Friday morning part 3: Hanstand Forward rolls to Back Extension Handstands
Nailing these very nicely. They felt pretty awesome. Here's the final set.
Friday morning part 2: Handstand work.
Hit 5 different entries to the handstand throughout the 5 sets today and they all felt pretty awesome. Here's the 5th entry.
Friday May 15th morning part 1: hopping muscle ups
Using a slight1-leg hop on the muscle ups today. Still have to tone down the hop a bit, lol. Here's the 1st of 5 sets.
Thursday night part 3: Isometric curls and midsection work
Finished off the night with some isometric curls and some isometric midsection work. Here's set 2 of 3 for the curls.
Thursday night part 2: Isometric Rear Delts
The 2nd of 3 sets of isometric work for the rear delts. Making sure to hit the 3 main angels for this shoulder movement as hard as possible. Awesome stuff.
Thursday May 14th night part 1: Handstand Push Ups
Changed it up a little bit for tonight's training. Instead of hitting 100 reps of either BTN strict presses or Military presses, I thought I'd race to 100 with handstand push ups. Got my reps in with 4 sets of 25. Here's the final, and the sloppiest, set.
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Thursday morning part 4: L-sit to Planche and more
These went pretty well today. I can see where I need my improvements, which is good, and they felt pretty strong and stable. Hit 4 sets of the old L-sit to Planche, then hit 100 pull ups and 100 lunges. Awesome morning practice overall.
Thursday morning part 3: Iron Cross Pumps
I have to say, I really like this movement, and it's coming along a lot better than I thought it would.
Thursday morning part 2: L-sit to handstand
I'll be honest. Out of 5 sets of this movement today, this was truly the only good rep, lol. The rest just totally stunk. Oh well, sometimes you're on, sometimes you're not. At least I caught the 1 good one on video, lol.
Tuesday night part 3: Isometric shrugs and midsection work
Finished off the night with 3 sets of isometric shrugs and then hit a really strong isometric midsection session. Awesome stuff. Here's the final set of the iso shrugs.
Tuesday night part 2: Isometric Bent Rows
Decided to mix it up a bit and hit some isometric bent rows tonight.
Tuesday May 12th night part 1: Front lever pulls and pull up combo
Hit a strong 4 set of this one. Used a little bit of a harder version of the front lever on the eccentric portion. Felt good, and fried my lats, lol.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Tuesday morning part 5: 1-arm triple clap push ups and more
Here's the 5th set of these, pretty sloppy by this time, lol. Got 5 sets of 5 on each side, also hit 5 sets of back of wrist push ups and 80 lunges. A good morning practice.
Tuesday mornnig part 4: 1/2 floor circles
Feeling alright with these. I prefer them outside though, lol!!
Tuesday morning part 3: Punch tucks aka front flips
What do you do when it's cold and rainy outside and you can't go out to tumble. You practice your punch tuck front flips inside. Here's the final set of these from this morning's practice.
Tuesday morning part 2: Straight leg lever to handstand
Nailed some nice cartwheels to handstand, levers to handstand, hops to handstand and straddle ups today. Here's the straight leg levers (with a slight hop).
Monday night part 2: Squats
Nailed my 100 reps of squats with 425 pounds in 6 sets of 15 and 1 set of 10. Here's the final set. Called it a night after this, lol!
Monday May 11th night part 1: Awesome deadlifts
Feeling strong with these. Nailed a bunch of sets of 10 with 405 pounds. Here's the final set.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Monday morning part 3: New Rings Combo
Added a front lever to the rings combo. Felt like a nice addition.
Monday morning part 2: L-sit to handstand
Off day on these. 2 crappy sets, 1 alright set, 1 good set, and this set.
Monday May 11th morning part 1: Muscle up negatives
Concentrating on the eccentric movement during the transition. Here's the 5th of 5 sets.
Friday night part 4: Kind of: Isomectric chest and more
I actually hit the Isometric chest work (3 sets per side) and the Eagle Flexes (6 sets of 10) before the French presses, but forgot to tape anything. So, here's the wrap up on them plus talking about the isometric midsection work.
Friday night part 3, kind of, lol: French Press
Here's the3rd of 3 sets of French Presses. Felt strong.
Friday night part 2: Body flies
Love these, such a great chest movement. Here's the 4th of 4 sets of 10 with a good pause in both the stretch and the contraction position.
Friday May 8th night part 1: Dips
Decided to hit some good old school bodyweight dips. Did four sets with 60 seconds of rest in between sets. Nailed 35, 30, 25 and 20 reps respectively. Here's set number 3:
Friday, May 8, 2015
Friday morning part 7: 720 degree jumps
Even more fun to finish up the practice. These got a little sloppy, but they were a blast.
Friday morning part 3: Back extensions and Handstand forward rolls
I may not have been able to be outside, but they were still fun.
Friday morning part 2: striaght leg lever to handstands
Used a slight hop to help out on these, but not too bad at all.
Thursday night part 3: Isometric curls and more
Finished off the night with 3 sets of isometric curls on each side and 6 sets of Leiderman presses. Here's a little wrap up.
Thursday night part 2: Read delt raises
These felt really strong tonight. 3 sets of 10 on each side with the 88 pound k-bell. Here's the final set.
Thursday May 7th night part 1: Military Press
In the chase to 100 reps I only needed 7 reps more and I was going to get them come hell or high water. Here's that final set.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Thursday morning part 4: L-sit to planche and more
The L-sit to tuck planche keeps on improving. I love it. After this I hit 100 reps of back of wrist push ups and called it a morning. Great practice!!
Thursday morning part 2: L-sit to handstand
After a rough 1st set, the last 4 sets all went really well.
Why do I post the videos and the pictures that I do?
Why on Earth would I post the videos and the pictures that I do on the blogs, on youtube and on facebook? If you've ever wondered why, here's my honest answer. The video's in the youtube link below.
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Thank for watching!! :)
A few of my favorite things!!
From this morning's practice: Parallets and rings, a few of my favorite things:
Tuesday night part 3: Isometric shrugs and midsection
Hit 3 really nice sets of isometric shrugs, then finished off with some strong isometric midsection work. Great training tonight!!
Tuesday night part 2: 1-arm rows
Changed this one up a little for the night. Hit 3 sets of 20 reps per side instead of 4 sets of 10. Thought I'd change up the stimuli a little bit. Felt good. Here's the final set, used 123 pounds for each set.
Tuesday May 5th night part 1: Lat Pull/Pull up Combo
Nailed a really nice 4 sets of these tonight. Felt really strong.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Tuesday morning part 9: 1/2 floor circles and more
Moving up to the 1/2 floor circles and they felt pretty good. After a few sets I nailed 100 back of wrist push ups, 300 feet elevated push ups and some hand extension work. Great practice.
Tuesday morning part 8: handspring to dive roll and dive roll to headspring
Nailing the other combos. Hitting some handsprings to dive rolls and dive rolls to headsprings.
Tuesday morning part 7: butterfly kick to 1-arm cartwheel and 1-arm cartwheel to butterfly kick
Starting my first day of working on combinations. Made sure to do both of these on each side and alternated them in a way to hit them both evenly. They are the butterfly kick to 1-arm cartwheel and the 1-arm cartwheel to butterfly kick.
Tuesday morning part 3: Handstand holds
Working on different entries into the handstand. Here's my favorite, from a straddle. Not my best, but not bad.
Tuesday morning part 2: Jumping Muscle ups
Working these hard. Jumped a little too much on the first one, lol.
Tuesday May 5th morning part 1: Pull up challenge completed
Finishing off the 30 day pull up challenge with this set. Over the past 30 days I've hit 100 pull ups each day on top of anything else I was doing in morning practice or evening training. Some days I hit between 150-200 pull ups, but everyday I hit at least 100. Awesome stuff. Strength and endurance improved. My back, biceps and forearms improved. Mental toughness improved. Overall conditioning improved. An awesome challenge. Here's the final 20 reps.
Monday night part 3: Lunges and 1-legged leg curls
Finished off the night with 3 sets of 10 for weighted lunges on each side and 3 sets of 10 for 1-legged leg curl/ hip thrusts on each side. Here's the final round.
Monday night part 2: Squats
100 reps with 405 pounds on the bar. Hit my 100 with 1 set of 17, 4 sets of 15, 1 set of 13 and a final set of 10. Here's the final set. Of course, my beautiful bride nailed her 100 reps with 305 pounds on the bar in 5 sets of 20 :)
Monday May 4th night part 1: Deadlifts
Hitting some good and strong deadlifts tonight. Nailed 3 sets of 10 reps with 385 pounds. Here's the final set.
Monday, May 4, 2015
Monday morning part 5: Atlas Push ups and more
Finished off the practice with 100 pull ups, isometric neck work, 100 back of wrist push ups and 100 Atlas push ups. Here's the final set of the Atlas ones. Love these, great for the chest and shoulder girdle. The key is to go as deep as possible in the bottom position, really get that stretch.
Monday morning part 4: handstand to straddle planche
First day working on these. Felt pretty good. Here's the final set. Trying my darndest to keep the elbows straight and the hollow position. Not bad though for the first day.
Monday part 3: Rings Combo
The combo is really clicking well. Feeling pretty darn easy. Might be time to ramp it up a bit. Here's the final set:
Monday morning part 2: L-sit to handstand
All 5 sets went really well today. Balance, strength, agility, body awareness; all improving. Awesome!!
Monday May 4th morning part 1: Muscle ups
Working today on making the entire movement smoother. Felt strong. here's set 5 of 5:
Saturday and Sunday May 2nd and 3rd wrap up
Wrapping up Saturday's practice and training in the video.
Sunday, Melissa and I spent a few hours practicing tumbling, acrobatics and gymnastics. Awesome weekend.
Sunday, Melissa and I spent a few hours practicing tumbling, acrobatics and gymnastics. Awesome weekend.
Friday night part 4: French press and more
Finished off Friday night's training with 3 sets of 10 for French Presses followed by a good isometric midsection workout. Felt awesome and strong. Here's the final set of the French presses.
Friday night part 3: Chest isometrics
Hit 6 sets of chest isometrics, awesome stuff, but completely forgot to tape them, lol. Here's the wrap up.
Friday night part 2: Body Flies
Nailed my sets of 10 really nicely, focusing on getting a nice pause in both the stretch and contraction positions. Then, I lost count on the last set and only did 7 reps, lol. Oh well, they still felt good.
Friday May 1st night part 1: Weighted Dips
Hit a nice and strong 4 sets of 10 with bodyweight plus 108 pounds. Felt pretty good. Nailed 6 sets of 10 for prayer's press along with these as well. Good stuff. Here's the final set.
Friday, May 1, 2015
Friday morning part 7: floor circles and more
Hitting a few sets of 1/4 floor circles. My body so wants to go for 1/2 circles. Then nailed 435 push ups (classic push ups and back of wrist push ups), neck work and 100 pull ups. Great practice.
Friday morning part 6: handstands
Nailing 5 sets of handstand holds, kicking up in a different way on each set. Here's some straddle ups.
Friday morning part 5: muscle ups
Really working the eccentric part of the transition today. Felt strong and good.
Friday morning part 2: back extensions to forward handstand rolls
These are just a blast, having a lot of fun here.
Thursday night part 4: Midsection
Hitting a great finisher for the midsection. Without any rest you hit 10 good mornings, 8 rollouts, 10 good mornings, 8 rollouts, 10 good mornings and 8 rollouts. Awesome stuff for the entire midsection. Here's the final round.
Thursday night part 3: Isometric Curls
Realized after our last set of isometric curls that Melissa and I both completely forgot about filming anything, lol. Here's the wrap up on it.
Thursday night part 2: Read delt raises
Jumped u-p to the 88 pounders for these tonight and hit 3 sets of 10 on each side. Felt awesome. Here's the final set.
Thursday April 30th night part 1: BTN strict presses
These one's are a little high, but not to bad. Nailed 2 sets of 12, 6 sets of 10 and 2 sets of 8 to get my 100 reps for the night. Here's the final set.
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