I haven’t just posted exercises on my blog for a long time. This blog is where I usually post discussions or documentaries for the most part. Today however, I will post some pull-ups. That’s right, some pull-ups. They are a bit different and I will be giving these a try this summer. I have done some variations close to these, but these are still unique. These have a Ninja Warrior feel to them, if you are familiar with the show. The stabilizing muscles are what really come into play here. Try these out with me and leave your comments on how you like them. If these are really useful, I will post more of them. Enjoy.
Most real workout enthusiast will almost always say “hell yeah”. My question would be “are you ready for a Gym Jones circuit workouts”? That may change the response or cause a sudden urgent situation to come up requiring their immediate attendance (yeah right!). These guys probably are the best known hardcore circuit workout crew on the internet. This video is a perfect example of just one aspect of their intensity and dedication to what it is they do. Enjoy the video and try (if tough enough) to reproduce this workout. Have a AED machine close by please.
I enjoyed this post so much as the Exercise Video of the Day at Street Workout that I felt it was necessary to post it here. This is a pull-up variation that I use, but in a slightly different way. This video features a pull-up hold concept using your feet on the ground as a spot. What they are doing is holding a pull-up position without actually doing the pull-up for about a minute which is completely torturous. What I personally do is what I’ve deemed, punishment pull-ups. I do a regular set of pull-ups, (any grip) adding a hold pull-up into the set. For example, if I’m doing 15 reps, I will do 3 hold pull-ups somewhere in that 15 reps. The hold consist of just holding the pull-up at the top of the contraction. It hurts, bad! In this case I usually don’t do as many sets, somewhere in the range of 5 sets total. Give them a try, this is a secret pull-up of mine. Enjoy.
Strength training is something usually thought of exclusively as weight training. Any weightlifter will quickly argue this point to anyone in earshot willing to entertain this thought. However, there are a select few bodyweight exercises that will develop strength at an unmeasurable rate. Pull-ups are one of those exercises. Ask any weightlifter who can bench press 300+lbs, “how many pull-ups can you do?” Some if not many won’t be able to ten. Does this make sense? Now consider the strength to perform a one handed pull-up. Need I say any more? Watch the video.
We are all here to pay our great respects. This respect goes to a man that tried. He tried hard. Hell it looks like he’s gonna die trying so damn hard. This has to be one the funniest videos of a person doing a dead lift. I have heard this person really was acting a bit, but the entertainment value of this vid was too great to pass on. It also serves as a point on everything NOT to do while doing a proper dead lift. From the arched back to the jerking and finally to the struggling a the apex of the lift. He did everything possible wrong except drop it on his foot. Very funny video anyway. Who says we don’t have a sense of humor at Street Workout. Enjoy.
