Category: Body-weight Training
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David Goggins Inspired Bodyweight Work Outs
This site’s mostly archives now. I’m writing fresh things over at Substack Come say hi: www.miloandthecalf.substack.com UPDATE: David Goggins has an incredible new book out called Can’t Hurt Me which you should buy immediately. Its available here. I recommend the audio book version. In Jesse Itzler’s great book Living with a Seal (Amazon, my…
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Friday Inspiration – The Elusive Handstand
This is cheesy, and corny, and totally inspiring. Give it a watch. And yes, I’m still working on my handstand, I think I need to double down on the practice.
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Friday Inspiration – Seventy Years Old and Getting It Done
Here’s seventy year old athlete Jack Arnow doing handstand push-ups and muscle ups at seventy years old. If he can do this, what’s stopping me?
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Training Totals – Week Ending 1/20/2013
Overview: Try again, fail again, fail better. Limited temporal resources spread thin over a bunch of shit that needs to get done. Still, I ran, did bodyweight work, and climbed. It could have been worse. Numbers For the Week For the Year Total Exercise Time ~5:30:00 ~12:00:00 Average Weight 171 171 Run 22 in…
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Friday Inspiration – Training the Pistol Squat
It is hard to find a good video tutorial for the pistol squat. I think this one by Al Kavadlo is pretty good. Nice progressive exercises, though I wonder if it is possible to get the straight leg at a more perpendicular angle to the ground? I’ve been working this exercise (and the handstand) this…
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Training Totals – Week Ending 1/13/2013
Overview: We’re finally settling in to the new place, and I feel like I am finally settling in to a workout routine. It isn’t perfect yet, but it’s a start. Running wise, I’m finally starting to get out there regularly again, the weekly mileage isn’t there yet, but it will be soon. The little mini-goal…
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Friday Inspiration – Learning the Handstand
Handstand training begins in earnest this weekend. To figure out how I should go about the progression, I’ve been watching some youtube video. Despite the low budget quality, I think this is one of the best. Dude’s advice on using a doorframe to practice the free standing handstand is genius. I wonder what E is…
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Starting Point
There are many things I love about my new apartment. Its bigger and nicer than where we’ve been living. Its got two bathrooms! And, perhaps most importantly, the building has a gym. I’ve been so busy last night was the first time I made it down there. It’s a great space, I think I’m going…
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2013 Goals – Bodyweight Exercises
In order of priority the three kinds of physical activity I am focusing on are running, body-weight work, and rock climbing. Being me, there are of course tons of other types of exercises I dabble in, including cross country skiing, cycling, tennis, swimming, boxing, lifting, the list goes on. But I’m not taking any of…
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