Three round for time of:
1 minute Hollow rock
1 minute Arch rock
10 One legged squats, left leg
10 One legged squats, right leg
Hollow Rock: Lie on your back,
place your arms overhead, and
rock smoothly back and forth
like a rocking chair.
Arch Rock: Lie on your stomach,
place your arms overhead, lift your heels
with straight legs, and rock smoothly
back and forth like a rocking chair.
One legged squat assistance: Hold your jump rope
strung over your pull-up bar for balance and
assistance if you've not developed the fitness
for this yet.
Hollow Rock for 1 Minute
(Lie on your back, place your arms overhead, and rock smoothly
back and forth like a rocking chair.)
Arch Rock for 1 Minute
(Lie on your stomach, place your arms overhead, lift your heels
with straight legs, and rock smoothly back and forth like a rocking chair.)
Ten one legged squats, left leg
(Hold your jump rope strung over your pull-up bar for balance and
assistance if you've not developed the fitness for this yet.)
Ten one legged squats, right leg
(Same assistance if needed.)
Repeat the above twice for a total of three circuits.
We will continue today on our recurrent theme of core-focus.
1) Hanging from the pull-up bar SLOWLY lean back and lift your feet towards your
hands until your tows gently touch the bar. Repeat for a total of twenty times.
2) Arch rock for one minute. If you've forgotten what the arch rock is go to: http://www.audiblefaith.com/artists/rharrell/gympag/condstr.html
(You are supposed to be practicing for the moves on this page regularly anyway!!
3) Fifty sit-ups with substantial support (towel or abmat, etc.) under the lumbar spine.
Knees up and apart, feet together.
4) Thirty back extensions.
5) Hollow Rocks for sixty seconds. Again if you've forgotten: http://www.audiblefaith.com/artists/rharrell/gympag/condstr.html
6) 20 Stiff legged deadlifts. These are performed with an arched back! From the stand,
bow down letting the chest lag behind as far as possible. Do not surrender the arch in
your lower back. Done right you won't get anywhere near the floor with the barbell. If
your mechanics are correct you will feel an extraordinary tightness in the hamstrings.
7) Hold an L for sixty seconds. Repeat two times for a total of three efforts.
8) Twenty five times perform a "hug-a-twinky". If you don't know the movement here it is: http://www.audiblefaith.com/artists/rharrell/gympag/condstr.html
Some of you may be tempted to slough off the moves that you can't perform. You need to
understand that what you can't do here clearly defines your deficiencies as an athlete.
Any reasonably conditioned athlete can do all of these without much difficulty. If you find
a chink in your armor, work daily on correcting it.
200 sit-ups no matter how long it takes. Make them nice!
Stretch thoroughly. Used as a rest to slow down pace and come in to the next phase relatively fresh.
Do 50 dips, with or without assistance. This is a 50RM set, i.e., ideally, 51 should be impossible.
Immediately, run for ten minutes on a “windsprint” bike or a stairclimber at max level.
Rest as needed.
Do 35 dips, with or without assistance. This is a 35RM set, i.e., ideally, 36 should be impossible.
Immediately, run for five minutes on a “windsprint” bike or a stairclimber at max level.
Rest as needed.
Do 20 dips, with or without assistance. This is a 20RM set, i.e., ideally, 20 should be impossible.
Immediately, run for five minutes on a “windsprint” bike or a stairclimber at max level.
200 sit-ups no matter how long it takes. Again, make them nice!
Note: Do as many of the dips as you can without assistance on failure jump to Gravitron
(or like) and complete set with minimal assistance. We are exhausting the pushing function
partially with an eye to making the arm supporting contribution on the bike or stairlcimber
very tough
Perform each of these for 1 minute and work through the cycle 3 times.
Hollow Rock
Hollow Arch
Sit-up
Back Extension
Knees to Elbows
Stiff legged deadlift
Rest