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[wesrman]

This will help you get better at chins and pull ups.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba7q14s5-2w

[troubleBound]

thanks! I've read some of the Ross links. Very helpful, thanks again.

[troubleBound]

This will help you get better at chins and pull ups.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba7q14s5-2w

Is there any substitute to the exercises that require squat racks and barbells? I don't have access to those. What can I get?

EDIT: I also have a question about strength training. From reading the naked warrior I had read that you shouldn't go until failure. Many other sources agree with that. However there programs like this: BodyWeightCulture.com - Free Body Weight Exercises for muscle gain, weight loss and more that want you to do "maximum" sets. However in "The Naked Warrior" it is indicated that it is more efficient to do just enough that you could do some more reps, but do vast numbers of sets and used and example of an ex-marine, I think, who would do 5 sets of chin ups whenever he got the chance throughout the day usually totaling 100 chinups (I don't have the book in hand so I'm not using the exact numbers) a day, and this is how he got to up his number of chinups incredibly quickly and without ever fatiguing when training for it. So wouldn't the best way to get to 100 pushups would be, say you can do 20 pushups max, then do 16, but lots of times per day, and test you max (which should've gone up drastically) and repeat until you get 100 max?

[wesrman]

Doing the negatives on a pull up bar once per week and hanging from the bar should help a bit.

Stopping before failure will help you get stronger faster i think, but sometimes its good to push it so id say do a mix of both.

[troubleBound]

Cool. They do have a pull up bar at the gym. Alright, tomorrow I'm planning on doing tabata burpees, some shadow boxing and some strength exercises (today, for some reason, my shoulders felt so sore I couldn't even do pushups).

[troubleBound]

Tuesday - ran 3 miles in 24:56, probably my best time ever. And for the last mile or so I could've gone a bit faster, probably, I just didn't wanna push it too far. Didn't do much else... Did a couple of sets of clap pushups but that was it. For some reason my shoulders were incredibly sore. Still managed to fool around with a friend's trapeze (he's got one at home. It's lots of fun, lol).

Wednesday (today) - just got out of the boxing gym. I felt much MUCH better than monday. I did 3 rounds of skipping, and they were good rounds too, and then did 3 rounds of shadow boxing, 3 rounds of heavy bag and an extra 2:30 round. This time I felt like I was throwing effective punches not lazy pattering like I did on the first 2 rounds on monday. Then 2 rounds up and under, two rounds speed bag and I'm gonna do some assisted pistols, assisted 1-arm pushups, clap pushups, t pushups, negative chinups and core-work. I feel so much stronger today than I did on monday. Lots of energy today.

[troubleBound]

Thursday - tabata burpees
Friday - boxing gym. 3 rounds skipping, 3 rounds shadowboxing, 3 rounds heavy bag and an extra 2:30 round, 1 round up and under, 2:30 round speed bag and did some lower back exercises for the remaining 30 seconds, then 2 more rounds speed bag. Did some negative chinups.
Saturday(today) - Did core work and some pushups and thinking about doing some 1-arm assisted pushups, some clap pushups, some assisted pistols and such.

I think a coach will have me work the pads on monday. I hope so. He was like "done already?!" on friday and asked what I did so I told him and he didn't say nothing but asked when I would come back and I said monday and what time. I really wanna work the pads anyway. So I think monday's gonna be a long gym day.