Image by Michal Novotny Monday, February 2, 2009 100 Pullups for Time, Did only 94 pullups Time: 2:30:84.04 Intensity Rating: 5/10 Wednesday, February 4, 2009 Max rounds in 20 minutes of: Bodyweight Squat, 20 reps KB Swings, 10 reps KB Windmill, 5 reps Completed 8 rounds in 20 minutes Intensity Rating: 6/10 Fridy, February...
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Image by abbyjane Here is a really great bodyweight workout using simple, basic movements that’ll take just 15 minutes of your time: Perform 5 rounds of: 2 minute interval: Pullups, 5 reps Pushups, 10 reps Bodyweight Squat, 20 reps 1 minute rest Here’s how to do it: Set the timer for 2 minutes, and...
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The following are some templates you can use to design your workouts: Superset Template One (Rounds for Time): Choose total rounds that you wish to perform (i.e. 5) Choose exercises (Choose one push up variation, and one kettlebell exercise) Choose number of repetitions per exercise (start with conservative numbers) Time the entire workout. Try...
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Image by Nadeem I’m not a bodybuilder! I’m not a Crossfit athlete! No matter how many times I try to tell people that I do not belong to a particular category of fitness, people still tend to categorize me! “Oh but you’re a bodybuilder,” says a customer at my Dad’s store while we’re talking...
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I’ve been making a HUGE mistake. I’ve been tracking my workouts, but not measuring them. Before I go any further, I should probably clarify two words: tracking and measuring. There is a difference. Tracking is the recording of an event, in our case a workout. Measuring is estimating by evaluation or comparison. Image by...
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Many females do not lift weights because they do not want to get big and bulky like a guy or like a big female bodybuilder. Instead, they want a toned body with the right curves in the right places. So in order to avoid getting big and bulky, many women either train with extremely...
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This has been in the works for a while. I wanted to develop a series of workouts which measure multiple qualities of fitness at the same time. These would basically be standards of fitness which would ai me in not only measuring personal fitness levels, but also those of my clients. If a client...
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Intensity is as much a product of how one organizes their workouts as it is a mind-set. I’ve realized that my workouts are much more intense when they are planned to be short as opposed to being long. You can only do two things, workout for a long time, or workout at a high...
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Coming from a Martial Arts background, conditioning almost always overtook all of my other goals. Forget about fat loss if you can’t even go a few rounds without puking. Muscle mass and all that will come with the training you need to do to prepare your body in sport. The true mark of an...
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