Bodyweight Speed Training for Elite Physical Fitness The key to building explosive power, unmatched stamina and furnace like fat burning is what I call bodyweight speed training. I hear a lot of people questioning the rational of training fast and explosive, if you listen to most fitness professionals they will show you the slow controlled way of training. Just because the … [Read more...]
Bodyweight Training – Back Pack Training for Elite Physical Fitness
Bodyweight Training – Back Pack Training for Elite Physical Fitness A great way to add to you training is to get a good back pack and load it up for a different type of workout. A weight vest is good but distributes weight pretty evenly, a back pack wants to move around and is always trying to pull you back and forces your body to make adjustments building more muscles as … [Read more...]
Bodyweight Training -Step ups are the Working Mans Exercise.
Make no mistake about it, step ups will creep up on you and kick your ass. Simple, yet highly effective. This is an exercise that seems to be forgotten when it comes to other bodyweight exercises. It's simple, all you do is find a sturdy bench and step up then step down and do this for a few minutes. Here's the thing, because very few people use the stairs this will be brutally hard for … [Read more...]
Bodyweight Training – Pushup 300
Bodyweight Training – Pushup 300 A long time ago I heard of a boxer that would challenge his friends to try and do 300 pushups in 5 minutes. This is doing a lot of pushups in a short period of time. The world record for the most pushups in 5 minutes is 441 pushups. These are staggering numbers and I can hear it now, that it's impossible to do that many, they are probably not doing them … [Read more...]
Bodyweight Training – The Hated 8-Count Bodybuilders
The Hated 8-Count Bodybuilders Many think that it takes a complicated well thought out plan to get in great physical shape the fact is that the more time you spend making your training more complicated the less time you spend training. Look at most training plans, most experts give you anywhere from 8 to 15 different exercises in any given workout and unless someone shows me that … [Read more...]
Mental Weakness
There is so much more to training then just physical training. Most have no idea what it's like to push farther then they have to. The fact, You will never improve or get what you want unless you learn to have a little mental toughness, you need to learn to push through the pain, to sweat and do what ever it takes to get to the point you want to be. Attitude is the biggest factor. If you … [Read more...]
Bodyweight Training -The Bear Crawl Effect
The Bear Crawl Effect Bear Crawls are an exercise that doesn’t get a lot of attention and has been around for many, many years. I first was exposed to them in high school football. But, I remember doing them as a kid and racing my brother. Little kids do these exercises and we don’t even take a second look. Plain and simple Bear Crawls will build a rugged body. Bear Crawls are a … [Read more...]
Bodyweight Training Philosophy
Bodyweight Training Philosophy Why do I feel bodyweight training is the ultimate way to train for getting into great shape, burning fat, getting strong and becoming athletic? One word, RESULTS! After spending many years in the gym and doing whatever it took to get bigger and stronger through the use of food (over eating) buckets of weight gain and gallons of whole milk, supplements and … [Read more...]
Labor Strong-Gym Weak Part 3
Labor Strong-Gym Weak Part 3 He is the million dollar question. If going to the gym will make you stronger than a laborer then why is every man and gym trying to imitate the way a laborer works? But to be cleaver the experts call it functional fitness or functional strength. No matter how you look at it, it’s copying the way of the laborer. Like martial arts that copy animal forms and … [Read more...]
Labor Strong-Gym Weak Part 1
Here is a topic always being talked about and it seems that some think that going to the gym is the way to real strength and some think a labor is going to be stronger because of the type of work he does day in and day out. Well this is a topic I am the expert and at least can give you a bit of the experience I have seen in my 30 years of training and being a laborer. Despite what anyone … [Read more...]