I know there have been threads before about working out and routines, but could not find them so I'm starting this one. I started doing this type of workout called Crossfit. You can check it out at www.crossfit.com I did yesterday's workout of the day (WOD) today: W/U - 5 minute 100rpm+ on level 10 stationary bike 3 rounds for time of: 50 Squats 35 pull ups 35 dips 95# Hang power cleans, 10 reps Time: 24 minutes I did sets of 3 for the pull ups and dips. The middle towards the end of rounds 2 and 3, I started slacking with the pull ups but managed to get them.
i just got o the gym and bench some percentages of my max and do a upper body workout. i would do a lower body workout but i cant as my pt and orthopedic feel its not safe to lift in my leg since i dislocated it a few months ago and im strenghtening up the muscles that hold the knee in place.
do you knock out all those pullups in a row? or do you do them in sets to get up to 35 total (35 in a row is impressive, especially with an overhand grip)...i max out near 20-22ish but im pulling 6'4" 205 lbs upward with no weight strapped to me... im not too into the high rep workouts. we do circuit training thorugh the months of september/october and that is god awful. i usually throw up at least once during those workouts because theyre so brutal...in season workouts for me usually consist of 3 sets of 8...as i start to rest at the end of season it becomes 3 sets of 6 with more weight to increase power....pullups are done in sets of 8 but with 45+ pounds strapped to my waist, dips with around 25 pounds around my waist...i do 4 workouts a week, 2 upper body workouts and 2 lower body workouts...example: upper 1 (monday): 3x8 bench, 3x8 pulldown, 2x10 straight arm pulldown, 3x8 weighted pullups, scapula work, rotator cuff work with resistance bands....ab work lower 1 (tuesday): 10 box jumps, 3x8 squat, 2x10 leg curl, 10 ham drops, 1x12 weighted lunges, 20 calf raises...ab work upper 2 (thursday): 3x8 incline bench, 3x8 row, 2x10 upright row, 3x8 weighted dips, rotator cuff work with resistance bands....ab work lower 2 (friday): 5 minute stationary bike ride, 3x8 dead lift, 2x10 leg extension, 1x10 leg abduction, 1x10 leg adduction...ab work those are my in season weight workouts....accompanied by two 2 hours practices a day, and a 3 hour practice saturday, with sunday off... wednesday is just one 2 hour practice
No, I did 3 pull ups then 3 dips and continued up to 35. But I was not doing strict pull-ups aka dead hang. I was kipping.
kipping is legal in the marines. dead hang is better but dont sell yourself short for kipping. keep workin it and youll be able to do it dead hang
I was in from '92-98 (0351) they made kipping illegal in '95 or so, I went from 20 with ease to barely 10, but I worked at it and within 8 weeks I was back up to 20 (then again I was 24) I'll post my basic workout tomorrow if I have time
i acutally quit the badminton team before joining the varsity darts team...then i quit that too....its for swimming and dave i didnt know it was made illegal sorry for the incorrect info. i have never been in the marines and i dont plan on going. i just had a trainer one time who used to be in the marines and told me kipping was legal. he must have been in before 95. thanks for the info
I do kipping because that is what the CF workout calls for unless noted. Or if you want to do dead hang. And I can do dead hang pull ups. Just not 35 of them with the rest of the workout I posted plus 3 rounds of it.
oh k gotcha...i wasnt tryin to like put you down by sayin keep workin on it haha. 35 straight dead hang pullups would be damn impressive. hell 35 straight kip pullups would be real impressive too...sorry if you thought i was cuttin on you i wasnt (keep workin on it anyway and youll be able to do more )
Just run a lot every day and do core stuff. Helps with your surfing. Saw vids of crazy abs and leg balance workouts kelly slater does. so sick. But lifting is overated.
work to achieve a goal. design your workouts so that they satisfy your needs and so they enable you to perform at the highest level. for some people, lifting may seem overrated. It is overrated for people that are trying to develop a skill (like surfing) that does not need weight lifting because core and balance excercises benefit them much more. but in many other sports, weight lifting is very important. basketball, football, baseball, swimming, lacrosse, water polo, wrestling. You need to understand how weight lifting effects each of the sports individually. Once you know that, you can tailor a workout that is specified for a certain sport or goal.
Haha..no worries... I didn't think anything by it. Kipping is hard to do.. Just started trying to do it the other day and kind of have my own version of it. I want to actually see how many dead hang's I can do in one good round.. I really think I could get close to or around 20.
no worries dude, here is some more info though - pull ups in general are not an excercise that you should really be trying to max out on like that, you'll end up with rounded shoulders which come with a whole ****load of problems, believe me.
Here is a recent story that might contradict some of what folks are saying on here. A 30 year old guy I work with just got back from a trip to San Diego. He is an avid jogger and runs about 5k every day (sometimes more) and enters 1/2 marathons on occassion. Just 8-10 years ago, he lived in OCMD, surfed all the time and worked as one of the surf shops down there in the summers. Although he's in great cardio shape (and works out some upperbody with weights) he hasn't surfed though since college. On his SD trip he rented a 9 1/2 longboard and took it out at one of the breaks in Oceanside on a shoulder/head high day. He couldn't even paddle his longboard (easy paddler) to get outback and after a 5-10 minutes battle against the ocean, he just turned around and rode the white wash back into shore. He was very frustrated (being a past decent surfer whom currently is in great shape) but he said surfing endurance obviously has very little to do with being in great shape and fit. Moral of the story, to get in shape for surfing you have to go surfing frequently.
Agreed, at least from my experience. There just isn't any substitute for the real thing. I don't know why it is that way, but it is. I haven't tried the Vasa trainer, maybe that routine works well.
