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each Wednesday till the sports relief cat crawl mile, and maybe after that if you guys want it, I or others at my request will be posting up a routine for every one to follow, you can add things your self, however doing these exercises will give you a strong base.



routine today, taking it easy to start with so every one can progress with it, that and I'm tired from gym yesterday.

0.15 miles cat crawl.
20 pull ups, 10 hands normal, 10 hands wide.
10 chin ups
50 calf raises on each leg
50 squats
30 press ups, 10 normal, 10 wide, 5 hands near hips five diamond.
plank 2 mins
ski sit 2 mins.

You can break each exercise down as you see fit, however push to the limit each time.

comment on how yo found every thing.

Hey all,
as some of you know my arm is in a sling so i was looking for a way to keep some strength in it. i remembered a friend of mine had a thing called a powerball. its a small gyroscope you spin in your hand using only your wrist, so was perfect. it took me a while to get the proper technique but after that have found it a very useful way to keep my arm active, its actually really hard work!
any way you can get one for about £15 from argos. its a lot of fun and claims to exercise forearm, wrist, biceps, triceps, fingers and hand. its also non-impact.
just thought some of you may be intrested
peace
d

as some of you who i train with will know im training to join the parachute regiment at some point this year and am doing a insight selection/ insight course this weekend which means i cant train from firday this long grueling weekend is aimed to test my physical and mental strength and also my attitude in sertain situations. so this means alot of physical drills etc and will come back hopefuly with some new drills etc and mentality which i would be glad to share. see you guys soon

safe

Pistol squats - the new years challenge
If you don't know what pistol squats are, google/youtube it.
A pistol squat for the right leg, then one from the left leg, counts as two.
For this reason, i have doubled the intended number of pistol squats to complete.

So... The challenge: 2000 pistol squats to be completed before Saturday 16th January

Post in the following format-

Pistol squat reps completed:
Minutes of conditioning completed in total (by everyone):
Comments:

Right. Good luck guys. Lets GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, we haven't had a community challenge for a little bit, and I hope no one minds that I've decided it's time for some brutal leg conditioning in the form of pistol squats.

Do one on one leg, than the next on the other, and so on. For anyone that has trouble doing a full one, that link has some good ways to make them easier. All that matters is that you are pushing yourself.

Target: 1000 pistol squats (if this is a bit much, or too little, anyone can raise or lower it before we get properly going)
Time: 2 weeks time, Saturday the 16th

Number of pistol squats I complete:
Total number of pistol squats completed by everyone:
Comments:

i can almost do the fully extended flag now! :o. well not almost, i can do it for about 2 seconds. i was wondering if anyone could help me as i have wanted to be able to do it for years!

any work out that may help/advise?

hi, just thought i'd put this up.
through my trainng i've found a even split between two types of conditioning.

1. strength trainning
which itself would have two distinctions.

a) body weight exercise: this is more of a general fitness thing that has a lean towards parkour, including things like squats, pull ups, press ups, sit ups all exercises using the bodies own weight (hence the name). many people have suggested this has less risk than weights and is more inline with the natural idea of parkour.

b)weights, such as you find in the gym etc. i have never tried this and personally dont see the need as with parkour i only ever lift myself (or possibly another person i,e the reach and escape idea) so dont see this as directly involved.

2. repitition of movement
the second catagory i discovered through blane's blog (http://www.blane-parkour.blogspot.com/) which involves a physical training directly bases around parkour/movement. drills such as repeating a catpass (kong) precision 300 times without fail (example from blane's blog). I have found this to be a direct way of improving a certain movement or developing body areas e.g. climb ups for upper body, as well as ability to move your self over walls higher than head height. i would say this is my prefered method of conditioning as i it just seems to fit with my view on parkour. other examples include precision drills, muscle up repitition etc.

3. (ha a secret catagory) slightly different and not part of the above distinction which seem to be opposites. Exercises such as swimming, running (sprints and long distance) which i feel i dont pay enough time on so am trying to do more. i think this is very imoprtant for stamina as when applying to life one precision wont be the end of a chase.

i know this is a load of woffle but i thought id share anyway. so sorry for the huge, long post. please hit back with your own oppinions etc.
peace d.

So as was discussed in Liam's days of training thread, I've suggested doing specific training type drills to do as a challenge after the current one has ended.

In particular, I've had an idea for leg conditioning/jump conditioning/landing conditioning exercise. I'd just like some responses as to whether you guys think it's actually a good idea, or a load of rubbish

First of all, you need a waist-ish high solid object. The idea is you do a 2 foot precision onto and off the object as fast and explosively as you can. Then crouch down to full crouch at a very slow rate, then jump from there to on the wall, and on landing on the wall, do a similar slow crouch down and up to standing, followed by the same jumping off the wall, then repeat both steps again for as long as desired

The landings will be too slow to actually absorb, it's more of a focus on working leg muscles and raising the comfort and flexibility of landings.

I think that we should try and train at least three days a week, lets try it

Days of training this week =5
total days=5
comments=Took the last to days of from ab pain:)


come on guys who's up for it?

I'm very disappointed in us!
It's time for a new challenge, however, something more general than usual, it's something absolutely EVERYONE can do.



So here it comes:

Any conditioning,
3,000 minutes,
before november. [that's the 30th of October;)]

Minutes of conditioning completed:
Minutes of conditioning completed in total (by everyone):
Comments:

Challenge begins at midnight.
Let's get on this!