All posts tagged "bodyweight"
I took pictures while Zach and Dave biked and ran the Brooklyn Biathlon in Prospect Park today. Luckily there was a jungle gym setup right near the finish line, so I ran in for some chinning while they were hoofing around the park:
Repeat 10x
Not for time since I kept running back to the race to take photos when Zach and Dave completed a lap. I got 2-3 rounds in during each lap until I hit 10.
Down in my makeshift basement gym:
The focus was on getting a quality set for each exercise and using minimal rest (45-60 sec), not going to complete failure.
I found a lovely little space called St. Mary’s Playground that’s fully equipped with pullup bars and other goodies today. Started with my patent-pending warmup of 15 burpees/15 sec samson stretch on each leg, repeated 3x.
The focus was on getting a quality set for each exercise and using minimal rest (45-60 sec), not going to complete failure.
Grabbed the top of the entry way to the cement baseball field in the park (right above the J.J. Byrne Park sign) and found it was a pretty good place to crank out the pullups, so I cranked out 20. Then I dropped and cranked out 20 pushups. Did that again, then went into sets of 10/10 until I hit 100:
Didn’t have a timer with me, but tried to get through it as quickly as possible. My muscular endurance on pushups sucks hard. Oh, and I ripped a callous off of my left hand during the pullups, which made showering afterwards especially painful.
Last dance at the Tony Dapolito shitshow. Going for quality sets here, not to failure:
I also realized while I was doing the HSPUs that my hands were too close together for the first three sets, which made it harder than it shoulda been. Best comment of the day, from an older lady watching me do HSPUs: “that looks impossible.”
Since my shitty ass no good motherfucker gym is closed for the third weekend in a row, I went out to Minetta Playground on 6th Ave and West 3rd St for a Never Gymless workout.
Finisher: 50 burpees.
The focus was on getting a quality set for each exercise and using minimal rest (45-60 sec), not going to complete failure. I’ve been feeling run down, so hopefully the bodyweight work will give my CNS a nice break.
After a long, sessile weekend driving to DC and back, I headed out to James J. Walker Park for Never Gymless workout. Did the following explosive mini-circuits:
Minimal rest (45-60 sec between exercises). I didn’t have a good place to do the muscle ups or the pullups, so I was forced to do jumping muscle ups from a hand rail in the park and pullups from the walk/don’t walk signs on Hudson St. Caught some weird looks.
Still didn’t feel up to pushing massive amounts of weights, so I took the Never Gymless approach. Did the following mini-circuits alternating between upper and lower body exercises and shooting for ‘quality sets,’ not going to failure:
Minimal rest (45-60 sec between exercises) since you’re alternating muscles worked here. A lot of these exercises worked the core too, so I decided to tack on some more core training at the end. I haven’t had a day of dedicated core training this week, but I’ve worked it out pretty consistently in kung fu class.
