The fear of embarrassment is a powerful motivator, especially when your embarrassment is shared with thousands of people all over the internet. With that said, I present you with Exhibit A:
If you don’t have the stomach to make it through the entire video, I’ll give you the cliffnotes version: 7 minutes of grunting, breathing really hard, falling over, and facemaking. Needless to say, I came face to face with my weakest link on Tuesday.
I always knew that my conditioning left much to be desired, but its easy to dismiss it and push to the side when there is no actually evidence of it . Sadly, once I saw the footage from my circuit I could no longer deny that I am the physical embodiment of epic fail. My movement quality is also terrible, and has been frequently compared to a hippopotamus having a seizure while on roller skates, and as an aspiring athelete these issues must be addressed before I can continue forward on the path of awesomeness. I can be as strong as I want to be, but if I gas out after 30 seconds then all that strength is useless.
As part of my plan, I am reducing my strength workouts to 1-2x a week, focusing on big movements such as chin ups, bench press, gluteham raises and rows for low sets and reps. On the other days I will focus heavily on conditioning via bodyweight cicuits, strongman implements and weighted complexes. Mobility work for my trouble areas will be included 2-3x daily at the very least.
Take home points? Identify your weakest points, prioritize bringing them up to speed, create a plan and then work that plan until it stops working for you – you will be a much better person because of it.
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That’s the SEQUAL!! Godamn, I can’t imagine how you did in the FIRST ONE! LOL
Looks like so much fun though!!! I wish I had a setup like that!
“gluteham raises”
“weighted complexes”
“Mobility work”
What on earth are they!??
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Thanks for the suggestion, Pyjammez. I need to step my website game up, so I’ll look into seeing how to do that.
Gluteham raise – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxsBgaw8SxY&feature=fvsr
Weight complexes – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6scmmaj_nY
Mobility work is the general term used for movements used specifically to improve the movement quality of a specific muscle/joint. Here is an example of an ankle mobility exercise, but there are many, many more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPa9-fpqnUE
Ah cool, I like weight complexes! I invented a move with a barbell where you deadlift it, upright shrug it, shoulder press it, lower it to the ground and do a pushup on it, then start again by deadlifting it. It’s VERY HARD. 20 reps owns you.
Do you know what owns me? Your website! A good hour was spent cracking the hell up. You were right too – once I saw it, I pooped bricks.
This is awesome Roger! Keep up the good work man!