THE TRX IS GOING TO BURNING MAN


Looking forward to stretching out on the Playa using the TRX. A foam roller and the Stick made the cut, too.

Not a lot of time to train @ HQ this week, stuck this WOD into my day today in the midst of an hour total of biking errand run.

@ HQ:
25 Dead-hang Pull-ups
25 Push-ups
50 TRX Leg Raises
50 TRX Bicycle

On bike, traffic intervals, then @ park on way to appointment 1:
25 pull-ups
25 push-ups

After Stop 1, @ another park:
25 pull-ups
25 push-ups

Onto stop three, then @ pull-up bar at another park:
5 muscle-up pull-ups
25 pull-ups
25 push-ups

Rode back to HQ.

Total of:
100 pull-ups
100 push-ups
50 TRX leg raises
50 TRX Bicycle
5 muscle-up pull-ups
1 hour of traffic intervals with 700 feet climbing, all just in the course of the route I had to take to get to appointments etc.

Ideal? Not really, but it allowed HQ to squeeze in some solid training McGyver style out of the air.

It’s easy to get target fixation with training and freak out when shit doesn’t go according to plan.

Life is: shit doesn’t go according to plan.

Learning to improvise and roll with it: critical in life and in reaching your sporting/fitness/health goals. Don’t give up or miss getting in training for your goal just because it’s not the perfect time/place/frequency/duration. Unless you’re overtrained, something is better than nothing.

Update on the site: undergoing big changes, will be rolling out features folk have asked for like an FAQ explaining what all the funky nomenclature used here means, what the various movements prescribed/spec’d here are, and more, including a podcast with some guests that would make Guy Fieri piss himself with joy if he were into this kind of thing.

Alright then, off to the playa, we’ll count on the Illustrated Man and the East Bay Ubermensch to hold it down.

Did all pull-ups/push-ups in sets of 10/10/5

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BAD INTENTIONS, BIG RESULTS

The Giant Bowery is a hell of a rig. Does Eric Doyne DRILLit?

We’re not all training to be professional athletes, or even win local races. Some of us just want to feel good, to push our bodies to our limits, to give ourselves an oil change every day by sweating everything out.

It doesn’t have to take forever to do. 16 minutes should be enough. You just have to learn how to put yourself in the head space to go hard, to know how hard you can go safely, and to never add intensity on top of bad form.

The final point is one that HQ is trying to hold onto currently while mastering mucle-up pull-ups. It’s a tricky move to master. Hell it’s tricky to even get your body up above the bar, much less worry about form. But HQ is trying, how-to video coming soon.

Today’s WOD once again comes from the Illustrated Man, @matthies, destroying shit at lunch like he does every day in about 16 minutes.

His specs for today’s WOD:

after warmup

2min Russian Twist Crunches, 26.5#KB
12 Wallball, 10# med
30 sec rest
x3
(15,17,13 twists)

10 Punch Up situps, 15#KB (5L/5R)
10 T-PushUPs, (5L/5R)
no rest
x3

Yowza.

That’s how you GSD–Get Shit Done–the DRILLit way.

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SHORT, SWEET, HARD TO BEAT METCON: C2, KB’s, and BW

HQ and Mr. Universe Jay Cutler

3 rounds of:
5 min. Concept 2 tabata (:20 on all-out, :10 ez, repeat for full 5 minutes. If you’re not near death by the end of each 5 min. C2 round you’re not going hard enough)
KB Snatch L 10 reps
KB Snatch R 10 reps
10 pull-ups
10 push-ups

Live Alive.

DRILLit


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METCON FROM HELL PART 3: POWER AND GLORY

The East Bay Firebreather, Sweet & Lowdown, shares his latest trip to the pain cave with DRILLit Nation. Thanks, Blake.

met-con/power(explosiveness)

9x thrusters @ 95#+
9x pill ups
(10 rounds)

10x buss driver (each side)+
5x push up/rows @ 2x 35# db
(max rounds in 15 min)
(Blake:7)

25-20-15-10-5
pull ups+dips


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SHORT, SWEET HARD TO BEAT KB/BW WOD FROM THE ILLUSTRATED MAN

Via www.humanpoweredtransport.net, thanks for sharing, EM.

3 push
6 sit
9 squat
x5

#26.2 kb snatch 5L/5R
x5

#44kb swing x10
x4

30 chair dips

10L/10R t-push



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16-Minute No Frills Bodyweight Training Tuneup for Endurance Athletes and Cyclists

Do this after your ride/run today to bolster overall functional strength and prevent overuse/repetetive motion injuries:

11 reps x 5 sets of following circuit:
-push-up
-pull-ups
-bodyweight deep, strict form overhead squats (holding length of pvc), no momentum
-hip bridge

Live Alive.

DRILLit.
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DIY Cyclocross Barriers

Over at www.cyclingreporter.com, high 5, good idea, read all about it here:

http://bit.ly/ccESPR
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SHORT AND SIMPLE HIS AND HER KETTLEBELL WOD

Training doesn’t have to be complicated. A great workout has a pushing movement, a pulling movement, a hip/knee movement, and a core movement. Eric and Tricia round the fundamental movement bases and get shit done quick with this his and her WOD.

HIM/ERIC:
3x
10 squat
10 push

3x
10 50# press
35 35# swing

2x
10 35# snatch l&r

HER/Tricia

20 35# squat
30 laps pool

Short and Simple His and Her Kettlebell WOD courtesy of EM www.humanpoweredtransport.net. Thanks for the inspiration EM and Tricia.

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TRX RADIO LAUNCHES WITH HQ AS HOST AND PAVEL TSATSOULINE AS GUEST DISCUSSING KB’s AND TRX & . . .BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, KETTLEBELL TRAINING FOR CYCLISTS AND GENERAL PHYSICAL PREPAREDNESS

1st episode of Trx Radio training podcast I produced/edited/hosted is out now w/guest Pavel Tsatsouline discussing the TRX and Kettlebells DVD’s (badass, check them if you haven’t here), peep TRX Radio here http://bit.ly/aYZezj please share link.

This is a repost of the DRILLit Kettlebell protocol. Kettlebells provide another excellent tool for building the glue that holds your body together and making sure all of the stabilizer muscles in the nooks and crannies not strengthened from the sagitally-dominant repetitive motion of cycling (which makes you very strong at bike riding, but not much else and will do nothing when the kind man or woman two inches in front of you grabs the brakes, chops you, or hooks you and sends you sprawling to the ground at 30 mph in a crit or on a group ride and puts your general physical preparedness, functional range of motion, and connective tissue to a max strength test with a binary result: broken bones or bumps and scratches that you can stand up and walk away from. It’s that important and makes that big of a difference).

Onto the repost, @kevinfranks here you go:

We sit on our asses all Goddamn day most days. Boy, that sucks!
But that’s life, kid. HQ has presented a # of ways to get in a badass
functional training session in 16 minutes the past few weeks.
Here’s another great one you can do IN YOUR OFFICE.

Cube dwellers will have to sneak off to an empty stairwell, conference room or step
outside for a second to get ‘er done. But this should be achievable
for pretty much anyone, anywhere stuck in an office/chair situation
all day.

It takes one piece of equipment–a light kettlebell or dumbbell.
That’s it. I do this sequence with a 15 # kettlebell, use whatever you
can manage with perfect form and without destroying yourself–this
isn’t a max power workout.

This is a groove greaser that will help
with nerve/muscle fiber recruitment, turning your body on, Functional
Range Of Motion (FROM), and balance while firing up your metabolism
and burning off the birthday cake you politely ate in the break room
at lunch.

It is polite to eat birthday cake, by the way, so please do it. It
won’t fucking kill you.

You can do all of these moves in sequence or just a few movements at a
time as you have a spare minute here or there or when you stand up to
take breaks.

If you’ve got 16 uninterrupted minutes, do it as one fell swoop and
cycle through the movements 10 reps per movement/side until time has
elapsed. Here I’ll break it down into three micro sets that comprise
the whole.

SEQUENCE 1
Overhead KB Swing
Alternating one-arm KB Swing
Single arm/single leg Deadlift (chance sides after 10 reps, do 10 reps
on the other side)

SEQUENCE 2
KB Goblet Squat
KB Snatch Right Arm
KB Snatch Left Arm
(NOTE: Check ceiling height before rocking the snatches. The last
thing you want to do is put a hole in the ceiling!)

SEQUENCE 3
KB Halo (swing around the body, catch with other hand in one
continuous movement) Right
KB Halo Left
KB Figure 8 Left (squatting, lace the KB from hand to hand through
your legs in a figure 8 pattern)
KB Figure 8 Right

Got it?
As Kenny Powers would say, fuck yeah.

Live Alive (not on your ass in an office chair).

DRILLit.

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PARTNER WOD FROM HELL: SWEET & LOWDOWN DRILLS IT AGAIN

Firebreathers in DRILLit Nation–this one’s for y’all. It comes to HQ courtesy of our man in the East Bay, Sweet & Lowdown. S&L has been hammering out insane WOD’s all summer long and builidng a gigantic mega-climbing base on the bike. He could use a prod to get into the competitive arena, so let’s hear some words of encouragement. Coming from a running background and with the ability to recover seemingly instantly, S&L has a bright future ahead of him in tri, bike racing, or the Crossfit Games if he steps up and steps into the arena of gladitorial combat. Will he do it? We’ll see.

Should he do it? No doubt–just look at this partner WOD from hell. A ballbreaker for most, but just another Wednesday (after a 50-mile hard climbing ride) for the man who has raised the bar for all of DRILLit nation.

NOTES ON WOD:
P1=partner one
P2=partner two

Please warm up thoroughly (search archives for official DRILLit warmup protocol) before attempting this.

And here goes:
p1: 6x Back squats @ 185# + 10 pull ups
P2: non-stop plank walk ups
switch
(10 rounds)
Bert @ 6 pull pull ups

p1: 30m farmers carry +10 push ups + 30m farmers carry (do not take hands off of dumbbells!)
P2: pick your punishment (v-sits, bastard sit ups, push ups, floor wipers)
switch
(4 rounds)
Blake @ 2×75#
Bert @ 2×50#

10-1
pull ups+dips
(Bert assisted)

45 min total
Notes: I want to give big props to Bert “The Hurt” Jonson, his progress in the gym is astonishing. Not to make this about the superiority of functional strength/interval training over traditional body building, bulk up/cut down style training, but his fitness and physique have improved rapidly since he switched his training style over. Today for example he squated 185# 60 times in 24min on top of doing more un-assisted pull ups ever in a work out. 3 months ago he was struggling to squat 95# ten times. Most of the progress is not in the way the workouts are written, rather in the way they are performed; active, inspired, and aggressive vs. passive, apathetic and submissive. To quote the Human “ad-Vontz-ment,” its about living alive.

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