A workout I like to make athletes do on the track is repeat 150m sprints with a 25 meter walk between sprints and then 10 pushups before each 150 starts. If you can knock out 5 150's in this manner in a total time of less than 5 minutes. Your in REALLY good shape upper and lower body. [sic all]
who wants to try this with me? seems like a fun way to end a workout the next time i'm at a 400m oval. post times to this thread.
Sup. Question for the Lance, AlexV, or anyone else who wants to weigh in. I travel a fair amount for work. Trips are 1-3 weeks, although more toward the short end of that spectrum, and they include very long times in transit. When I'm traveling I have access to a jump rope, some DBs, maybe a flat bench and some exercise machines. and very limited space, so no possibility of running, approach jumps, etc. Any particular recommendations for ways to continue to train for explosiveness and leaping under those circumstances? Generally I try to do some conditioning, as much stretching as I can (throughout the days, not just at workout times), and some BB-type work, as well as SVJs and depth jumps and tuck jumps if I have the space.
Anything I'm not thinking of?
My next trip starts on Wednesday and I'll be gone 2.5 weeks. Would like to lose as little as possible in that time.
i've read the pendlay article KF linked to (here in case someone changes the link at the top of the forum: http://www.rookiejournal.com/low-bar-squats-for-olympic-weightlifters-are-usually-not-a-good-idea.html). i hear what he and t0ddday are saying. but i am stubborn and remain unconvinced that switching to high-bar would make a significant difference for me. the pendlay article is about olympic lifters. the main point he makes is that for oly lifters the positional carryover is much better for HB, and the LB squats can fuck you up if you're trying to get better at clean and jerk. he admits that HB squats tend to bias toward quad dominance, which is not advantageous for jumpers and sprinters, who need hamstring strength. and says, at the end:
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I also think the HB vs LB controversy has less meaning than has been assigned to it... for example, one certainly can squat with the bar in a low position and still do a pretty upright, deep squat, that as far as body position would satisfy any Olympic lifting coach. One can also do a HB squat and get quite bent over, I have personally proven that many times! Simply changing the position of the bar on the back doesnt magically change a good exercise to a bad one, or vice versa.
in my squats i situate the bar lower on my shoulders and have some forward lean, but still manage to get pretty well below parallel and to avoid shooting my hips (most of the time). if you want to talk about movement patterns, kingfish's SVJ's are more like a low-bar squat. he leans way over. so do i, although i don't get nearly as high. look:
kingfish's squat is obviously deeper, more upright and with a farther-forward knee position than mine. but i fail to see why, as a general training exercise, HB would be better. people with much more knowledge than i have say it would be -- who am i to question glenn pendlay or fred hatfield -- and i'm willing to try the switch just to see. i guess my brain is just struggling with the fact that i've yet to see someone explain WHY HB would have better carryover than LB to anything other than the oly lifts.
1. pull ups 2. squat jumps 3. push ups 4. sit ups 5. indoor shuttle run (total 250 yards)
would be kind of fun to test this and see how we all stack up. a perfect score is pretty intense, you need 20 pull ups, 75 squat jumps, 54 push ups, 79 sit ups (in two minutes), and 41 seconds in the shuttle run. there are strict guidelines for each exercise. who do you think is the fittest person on the board, by these measurements? my guess is kingfish, at the moment. no one else comes to mind as being very "fit" in this way.
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