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No space workout.

by Harry on June 29, 2009

in Workout Logs, Workouts

I have 8′ x 4′ of space at the bottom of my bed in the hotel room I’m staying at this evening and thats all the workout room I need give myself a great workout.

After a quick warm up:

Squat thrusts
Stand with feet together. Squat down and place your hands on the floor next to your feet. In an explosive movement, jump feet backwards into a push-up position, jump feet back between hands and stand up. 30.

Push ups
Begin in push up position, on knees or toes. Perform 4 push ups, abs in and back straight. On the 5th push up, lower halfway down and hold for 4 counts. Push back up and repeat the series – 4 regular push ups and 1 halfway. 6 times for 30 push-ups.

Tuck Jump
The tuck jump exercise ranks near the top of the list for developing explosive power using only your body weight. 30.

Chair dips
Use two chairs, (or a bed and a chair ) for this excellent tricep exercise. Place two chairs facing each other, about 3 feet apart. Sit on one chair with your hands palm down and gripping the edge of the chair. Place your heels on the edge of the other chair and hold yourself up using your triceps. Slide forward just far enough that your behind clears the edge of the chair and lower yourself so your elbows are at 90 degrees. 30.

Jumping jacks
The basic jumping jack is a great cardio and strength training exercise. 30.

Punching Crunch
Just do a standard stomach crunch and at top of crunch do a punch with each arm in the air them back to bottom of crunch and repeat. 30.

Good morning
Bend over while standing till your upper body is parallel with floor then stand up straight again, this works your lower back, (I wouldn’t use any weights with this exercise as personally I think its dangerous to do so, though some people do). 30.

Hindu Squat
Stand with your feet shoulder width apart with your toes pointing forward. Keeping your back straight, lower your body by bending your legs until your thighs are parallel to the floor ensuring your hands are behind your body as you lower yourself. Your heels should rise as you come closer to the floor. When you reach the bottom of the exercise push off your toes, raising your body until standing, this should be a fast explosive movement. You are aiming to perform one repetition as rapidly as possible. As you raise yourself your hands should be infront of your body, parallel to floor. 30.

This was my workout for 29th June. I worked through this routine 4 times.

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HIIT or not?

by Harry on June 13, 2009

in Workout Logs

Not, I was going to make this evenings workout an HIIT workout but unfortunately I’d forgotten to charge a battery for the gymboss timer. I’d wanted to make this evenings workout bodyweight only as I’d done a kettlebell workout yesterday, since I’d also no battery for the mp3 player (I could have put a DVD on but wanted to workout outdoors), I was left with the deck of cards. This evenings workout was a deck of cards workout. I worked through the deck twice.

First deck was:

Spades = crunches
Diamonds = Jumping Jacks
Hearts = push-ups
Clubs = squat thrusts

Second deck was:

Spades = rustys
Diamonds = quantum jumps
Hearts = push-ups
Clubs = squat thrusts

Repetitions
ace = 11 reps
2 = 2 reps
3 = 3 reps and so on
Jack = 11 reps
Queen = 12 reps
King = 13 reps
Joker = 25 of the previous exercise.

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Bodyweight and dumbbell workout

June 5, 2009

This workout is a bodyweight and dumbbell circuit. Each exercise is done for 30 seconds time with 30 seconds rest.
* Split dead lift
* Press-ups
* Shoulder press
* Plank
* Dumbbell lunges
* Mountain climbers
* Bent over row
* Side crunches
* Seated Russian twists
* One arm snatch
* Jumping jacks
* Dorsal raise
* Squat thrusts
* Sicilian crunch
I worked through this circuit twice.

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Beach workout

May 28, 2009

Todays workout was done on the beach. Its a nice easy one, 4 sets of 30 squat thrusts, 30 boxers sit ups, 30 push ups, 30 jumping jacks with no rests or breaks, done as fast as possible with good form.

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Bodyweight and dumbbell workout for Tuesday May 12th

May 12, 2009

This evenings workout was an eclectic mix of bodyweight and dumbbell exercises, including but not limited to, shoulder presses, chest presses, squats, curls, isometrics, squats, squat thrusts, lunges, jumping jacks, curls, different types of push-ups, crunches … including warm up and cool down total workout lasted 45 minutes. Reps are between 16 and 30 [...]

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Workout for 5/2/09 bodyweight Tabata intervals

May 2, 2009

Tabata Intervals are made up of 20 seconds of maximum intensity exercise, followed by 10 seconds of rest. This cycle is repeated 8 times (for a total of 4-minutes).
Burpees
Crunchies
Push-Ups
Jumping Jacks

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Workout for 04/28/09

April 28, 2009

Gymboss Timer Workout: Ran to the local football pitch as a warm up and then performed:
* Burpees x 30 sec (12ish)
* Jumping Jacks x 30 sec
* Mountain Climbers x 30 sec
* Chinnies x 30 sec
Repeat 8x, 30 sec of rest between sets.

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The Pit Upper Body Workout.

April 24, 2009

The Pit Upper Body Workout starts off with a very brief warm up/stretching period which involves jumping jacks, elephants (Clasp your hands together and go up and down like an elephants trunk), Chain Breakers (Pretend your breaking a chain to stretch out your shoulders), Neck Rotations, Arm Circles, Various Punching techniques (Straights, Hooks, Uppercuts) and [...]

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Workout for 04/19/09

April 19, 2009

Deck of Cards:
Suits
* Hearts = jumping jacks
* Diamonds = push-ups
* Spades = stomach crunches
* Clubs = squat thrusts
Repetitions
* ace = 11 reps
* 2 = 2 reps
* 3 = 3 reps and so on
* Jack = 11 reps
* Queen = 12 reps
* King = 13 reps
* Joker = 25 of the previous exercise.
Completed 2 times.

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The Pit Full Body Workout

April 19, 2009

The Pit Full Body Workout by John Hackelman (the trainer of Chuck Liddell – UFC light heavyweight champion). I converted my DVD to mp3 so I can workout on the local football pitch using my mp3 player. The Full Body workout starts off with a warm up of exercises including astride jumps, neck stretches, chain [...]

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