The Jump Rope can make you Amazingly Athletic The jump rope is still not a piece of equipment many people think of as important. If I had a choice to either run for fitness or jump rope, jumping rope is my choice. All the years I trained with weights skipping rope was never ever a thought in my world. If you jumped rope I would have thought you were doing nothing more than a school girl … [Read more...]
Training Hard Requires an Aggressive Attitude!
Training Hard Requires an Aggressive Attitude! Today will be a kind of rant; I know you find that hard to believe. Some people don’t like my attitude; guess what? Tough training requires an aggressive attitude. If you walk through life worrying about who you will offend or what others think you will just be like the majority, that being a person trying to fit in with no mind of their … [Read more...]
Simple but Brutal Back Pack Workout
Today had a brutal workout, but it would sound to boring and simple for the average person that trains. When workouts are simple people seem to look past simplicity and look for more complicated. I will tell you that complicated rarely works long term. If when you workout and you find yourself spending to much time trying to remember the next exercise, you are wasting valuable training time … [Read more...]
A Short Manual Labor Background.
A lot of people seem to be trying to figure out what type of work I do. Well here it is. I started working at 12 working for contractors cleaning up and breaking rock, worked with roofers ripping off roofs and carrying shingles. Moved furniture on and off through my life as a second job. Some where right about me working at UPS. But, when I was 17 years old I went to work for a freight … [Read more...]
Bodyweight Training – 8 – Count Body Builders Brutal Leg Workout!
I get workouts done in parking lots, wooded trails, parks no matter where I am I can get in a brutal workout. So the excuse's are just that, excuse's. So I have a workout you can do that will make you work hard! People still think that bodyweight training is inferior to most other forms of training but I still disagree. I have never excelled training with weights like I have using my own … [Read more...]
Bodyweight Training – The Never Done Before 1 Arm Weighted Superman Pushup
Ever wonder what you could possibly do if you stop wasting time spreading your focus in so many different directions? To many people waste a ton of time looking for the superior training system. The superior training system is the one that works, the one that get's you the quickest results for your goals. For too many years I looked studied, read and trained with anything and … [Read more...]
Bodyweight Training 1,000 Star Jumpers 1,000 Step Ups total 9,500 reps for 5 days
1,000 Star Jumpers 1,000 Step Ups on 15” bench total 9,500 reps for 5 days Friday was jump rope 1,000 times and 1,000 pushups, Saturday’s brutal workout was 1,000 star jumpers and 1,000 step ups on 15” bench total time was 1 hour and 25 minutes. Anyone who thinks it might be easy go ahead give it a try. My plan changes from time to time when I train. Today I planned to do 1,000 Star Jumpers … [Read more...]
3 Days 5,500 Bodyweight Reps
3 Days 5,500 Bodyweight Reps Sometimes I plan my workouts sometimes they just happen, depending on the kind of time I have. So for the last three days I have done 5,500 bodyweight reps Tuesday 2,500 bodyweight squats, Wednesday 1,000 cargo strap (Atlas Style) pushups and Thursday 2,000 bench dips. The rules I use on myself for the last 3 days was drink water and eat nothing all day while I … [Read more...]
2,500 Bodyweight Squats and No Excuses!
2,500 Bodyweight Squats and No Excuses! I talk a lot about training when you can and where ever you can. We are tricked into thinking that we need some type of equipment to get in a brutal workout. Years ago I put the weights down, dropped my bodyweight 85lbs lighter and got physically fit, and I do it everywhere possible. Today I squeezed in 2,500 Bodyweight squats while putting in a 10 … [Read more...]
10 Minutes and this Workout will Cripple you!
10 Minutes and this Workout will Cripple you! I can no longer figure it out. The training methods used today are amazing. Every person selling a program, anyone that has trained for two days are now experts and will tell you why this will work and why this will not work. I have stopped reading most everything on fitness. I will tell you why. After 30 plus years of training and trying … [Read more...]