I didn’t falter too much on Christmas week. I managed to get 1 strength workout in and 1 conditioning workout.
Strength
Band Bicep Curls: 10 x 3 sets.
Decline Push Ups: 10 x 3 sets.
Sit Ups: 10
Conditioning
4 x 3 min rounds 16mins of Bas Rutten All Round Fighting audio
New Year resolutions are silly. Everyone breaks them, but I do believe in planning my year ahead and setting goals – something I recommended in a previous post. Well I thought I’d put up my physical goals on here…
Skills
Learn fencing – Booked and starting on the 8th January.
Ju Jutsu – Attain green belt by December.
Iai [...]
Friday’s not gonna keep me down so Sat and Sun I did the following:
Strength Circuit (Sat)
(2 minutes rest between each set)
Pull Ups: 3 x 2 sets
Calf Raises (dumb bell and bucket): 10 x 3 sets
Decline Push Ups: 10 x 3 sets
Chin Ups: 3 (just for the hell of it!)
Core…
Sit Ups: 10 (5 sec hold)
Plank: 1:30
Strength [...]
Quick quick. I need to sleep. Gonna do a nutrition post tomorrow.
Strength
Still hurting from Sunday’s strength workout.
Pull Ups: 2 + 2 + 1
Wide Grip Pull Up: 1
Calf Raise: 10 x 3 sets
Decline Push Ups: 10 x 3 sets
Core
Ab Wheel from knees: 10 x 3 sets
Sit Ups: 5 (5 sec hold)
Sand Bucket Side Bends: 10 x [...]
I switched my strength and rest days this week as I slowly recovered from a week of poor sleep and new exercises.
But I hit todays strength goals with extreme vigour and my morning routine was upgraded with a mini circuit of pull ups, chin ups and push ups.
The Main Strength Circuit (3 times)
Pull Ups: 2
Ankle [...]
If you’ve ever spent any time trying to gain mass or improve overall strength and performance then you will have come across protein supplements.
There’s at least 6 different methods used to determine how effective a certain protein source is for the body and each has its drawbacks. So I decided to bring together all of [...]
Althoguh I’m aching from grading yesterday I decided to go full whack into todays strength training. I started with a circuit on the pull up bar:
Pull Ups: 1 + 1 + 1
Chin Ups: 3
Wide Grip Pull Ups: 1
I can now do pull ups without band assistance which feels great.
I then followed up with some pushing:
Decline [...]
This took some time to put together as I had to balance my limited time in the morning, sleep requirements, boredom, and motivation.
If you’re anything like me then you’re probably horrendous in the morning. Doesn’t matter how much sleep I get, I HATE the mornings like hell.
But here’s my new routine and I guarantee you’ll [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post I had to shuffle the days a bit and today was the first go on my new toy (see pic). A bucket of sand!!
I’m always on the look out for new methods of working out to keep myself fresh. Nothing worse than getting bored of workouts – motivation [...]
Second maximal strength workout this week. I’m much prefering this 7 day programme as it fits around my life much more logically.
Chin Ups: 3 + 2 + 2
Hamstring Curls (with band): 10 x 2 sets
Dumb Bell Curls: 6 + 4 + 2 (I don’t remember this dumb bell being so dam heavy!)
Dumb Bell Calf Raises: [...]
