Nov.10th.
Warm-up; Stretch bands, 1# Indian Clubs, jump rope, light dumbbells, pulleys, and body weight and joint mobility.
Battling ropes : 10 sets of 1 min sets to warmup. This is a great warmup for any routine unless you are a beginner as it can be a workout into its self.
Kettlebell Fran:
21-15-9
20 kg kettlebells(2)
Pronated pull-ups no kipping. (took a lot longer)
“Battling Ropes” can sneak up on you in regards to exercise stress, as it ballistic and resistive when done aggressively. There is also a enormous change when using 1.5 to a 2.0 inch rope. A real story as I finished my training for today, a couple walked in and asked about seeing if they wanted to train in “Fair Oaks” Sic
It was a “40 something” couple visiting me this morning to see what else they can do to be fit. WOW! This is going to take some time. The couple told me they belong to a world class gym that cost them less than 20 dollars a month. They asked me how do your training with no machines! No, we just have a big piles plates dumbbells, barbells, kettlebells, slam balls, kegs, you get the idea. Anyway yes, long lengths of heavy rope. They ask what you do with them things(ropes) laying on floor? I made the lady grab the 1.5in. and the male 2in 50ft length of “battling ropes”. Well to make the story short, after only 5 mins. They never want to handle a ropes again. They were amazed that effect the ropes would do this without a machines, as they were told by a trainer, who was probably making 10 dollars an hour, in a world class gym, that machines are far superior to any other fitness equipment. He also told them the Kettlebells were bad for you.(I took a instant dislike to that punk ass) I guess that what you expect from a 10 dollar and hour trainer who spends a whole 30 min showing them how to get fit using machines. Yes, he showed them how to get a great workout in 30 min!
I ask the couple if they did any strength training like barbell deadlifts or squats. They said that if you drop the weighs in their gym you get thrown out or make a lot of noise, so we don’t lift the iron weights. I am not bullshiting you, that was the conversation. At that point I gave them some free advice, don’t look at fitness magazines, don’t watch fitness programs like fit TV or Biggest loser, and find a professional strength gym that has lots of weights that encourages you to do strength training along with some body weight exercises. Since they were not fat but smoked, I suggested that they look into a performance diet so tthey have more energy to train. I did not tell them to quit smoking as it bad for you sermen. If you don't know by now, you are brain dead.
Will this young couple be converted to my Idea of fitness? Most lightly not, especially when I told them what they were now doing was not a complete waste of time, but its damn close to it. The feed back I was getting, was that all the shit that I do is just to much to consider, as they are not accustomed to thinking about what they are doing so they can read and watch FOX news on a wide screen TV. Its just to complicated for their taste. So what so complicated about shaking a rope up and down? Was I offended. F#@K no! after training for over 40 years “it is what it is”. No sense in the hardsell. My whole area is fill with citizens with very low expectations in regards to fitness and the good gyms have to fight out for the 10-15% serious members crumbs.
That young couple were very nice people but like a lot of America’s have been programmed by hawkers, and media fitness experts in thinking you can get 6 min. abs and look like models they use. Beyond that, few want to go the extra mile to get good results, as it requires hard work and concentration. So what we have in an epidemic of obesity and hundreds thousands of gym members still growing fat and weak. That’s sounds like our federal government.
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