Bodyweight Exercises.

[Bomp]

Planks can get too easy and time consuming after a while, but doing them straight after a set of sit ups, or any other core excercise, gives it its bite back. Core routines can become a chore if it's repetitive so I also try to change things around like Youngblood.

[Scrap]

Adam, The Body is a team game with a Hell of a lot of Players, on my way out get back to you on this. If certain players arnt pulling there weight the rest of the team wont play as well, its that old Chestnut Feel. .

[Scrap]

Interesting subject Adam came up with, doing a Vidio at the moment which covers this issue. I mentor a Sports Skills coach, who is about to get one of the best jobs in Football Lucky C##t . Doing it with all Sports in mind. Its great teaching skills, but where the problem lies is teaching the Nueromuscular System to cope with the messages they are given to perform actions, without getting injured while performing intricate skill manouvers. It just wont happen without good Biomechanical foundations without it its not happening. Too much stress and confusion will stop the flow of the movement. How this is enginered is the good bit`and Ive been told the best bit by the students. The bottom line is its all done on the principal of Feel.

[Scrap]

One technique is moving without moving .

[AdamGB]

Are you busy sunday day time mate? I've called a few times but nobody's been in!

[AdamGB]

Adam, The Body is a team game with a Hell of a lot of Players, on my way out get back to you on this. If certain players arnt pulling there weight the rest of the team wont play as well, its that old Chestnut Feel. .

heh I realised this in the gym tonight.

My right leg has been taking all of the weight that my now recovered left leg couldn't take when it was injured.

Back in the gym for the first time in over a week and my RIGHT calf is as solid as a rock my right side felt all over the place!

BAD LEFT FOOT! caused me nothing but bother!

[Scrap]

Always in about 8 mate

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Plank variation.

Bring up your knee to your chest then rotate your knee across your body. If that's too easy, extend the leg when you twist, if that's too easy do it on one arm.

I have more but I don't really know know to describe them properly.
I'll try and get a vid.
Sit facing a wall. Either extend your legs so your feet are on the wall or bend your knees. You are balancing on your butt with your feet up the wall. Put your hands behind your knees or on your thighs and sit up now hold it there. Try twisting as if doing crunch twists - take your hands off to work harder etc.
Doesn't seem like much to begin with but it burns


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See 0.36-0.38
0.40 is more of a yoga pose
0.49-51

[donnydarkoIRL]

Donny, try it with 2 medican Balls together, push on to the medicine each time press up then move them 2" apart until you can go no further.Then move them back each time 2" Lovely, should get them 2ft apart.

Tried it Scrap....
Did them ordinarily first and found them tough enough, so I'm going to try pump them out quick next, maybe even in tabata format.

Donny, I too hit the weights this summer, and as well am having a go at bodyweight now, and different sprints then before. Already am seeing the gains, with another 3 1/2 weeks in till fight time (last fight 2 weeks ago).

I've coupled that with a very thorough dynamic stretching routine.

I feel the strength stuff is still there, those gains, and now this hopefully will compliment it, with range of motion and explosiveness on top. That's the goal any how!

Yeah the bodyweights seem to add functional strength to the strength I've built with the weight training.

Dynamic stretching is the business too.

Scrap taught me a stretch for the shoulders with two dumbells- little ones - it is amazing, but hard to describe without a visual.

[Scrap]

Last few weeks got hold of one of those Double Fit Balls, anybody got one. A very handy Tool, been playing with it, lots of fun