I tried out jumprope for the first time in probably 25 years and quickly came to the conclusion that I somehow lost the coordination needed to do it, like, at all. Kept smacking my shins and the back of my head with the damn thing. Jesus lol'd.
That's fucking awesome. It's cold over here (at least for me) in Germany and I cannot get myself up to start with it again. Have to start next summer with cold training again and I have to push through then.
Sorry for not updating in a while guys. I'm still going at it. It's just that we switched practice days to Thursday nights for a while and that means that we're practicing with the 300+lb guys every single week. So I've really not been doing much besides recovery work these past few weeks. I don't feel the tendon shock like I used to but my endurance is much higher now and since I can keep up during practice my bones feel sore for quite a bit longer during the week from all the flexing. I'm ok with it though as it's definitely making me stronger. I feel much stronger in more angles every time I go into practice now to the point where people are commenting on my endurance and lasting strength during a pull. Most everyone else is more like a drag racer with quick bursts of strength. But it seems like I can sustain my strength for quite some time before it drops off during a match.
My Pulley system did come in though and I had fun building and setting that up. Got all the weights moved over there but they're all on the floor. Might build or find a nice storage system for them. I installed it in the little addition (play/mud room) next to the living room with the intention of it only being temporary until the garage gets cleaned. Right now it's full of all my wife's built up summer rummage sale storage. We planned to clean it next spring and put all my gym stuff in it but it's really out of the way and convenient in the corner and the kids actually like using it which is a huge plus. This is the first time my 10 year old has taken interest in working out and he's actually being consistent with what I tell him to do. Even my wife thought this was nice.
WARNING: Blurry $50 Walmart burner phone photo's incoming.
As you can see, for recovery I've only got about 20lbs on it atm. I do various movements at 3-5 sets of at least 50 depending on how I'm feeling and at a different height for the anchor point each set. I go a bit harder on my tri's with 30lbs at the same set/rep range. Generally, I'll just walk up to it any time throughout the day and do a set of something till failure whenever I get the itch. Some days I feel recovered early and I'll put 50 on there and do some... special rows and other stuff... Listen, by now ya'll should know that I don't know the correct terms for a lot of the things that I do if they even have names at all haha. I just do what my trainer shows me (he doesn't give every movement a name) as well as find weaknesses and use my knowledge so far to formulate movements that I think might strengthen them. I ordered the handles as well and they've shipped already so I'm excited about that. That's going to be a whole new world for my hand and wrist.
Set up and leveling was a breeze and it seems really solid. At only 200$ I'm honestly more than satisfied especially after comparing it with a lot of other bulky gym equipment I've seen and tried out. As for using the system, I couldn't be happier. There's just so much there for me in terms of angles and vectors for me to attack different muscle chains in my arm. Love being able to move the main pulley anchor point up and down the front bar incrementally so that I can even do curls. And it just glides effortlessly so that even when I have a pump going on it's easy peasey to move up and down the bar with no need to take weight off when I want to adjust to a different angle for quick sets. I get such a unique pump with it. First time I've felt such an entire pump where I know it's not just one muscle group but nearly my whole arm even up to my shoulders and into my lats. The best part is that it lets me do so much upper body stuff without putting too much weight on my lower back if I don't want to.
Next step is to set up some anchor points on the wall on either side of it to attach some bands to so I can get even more pressures from different vectors to help properly simulate someone else's arm.
Anyway, I'll try to take some more videos over the holidays since I'll be skipping a practice. Keep at it boys!
Sorry for the late reply man, had arm wrestling practice yesterday and was wiped out.
Pussy. Go bench 225 for 10 reps right now.
Alright, I finally got some time but since my wife was working I had to teach my kid how to take the vids and it's also the same trashy burner phone cam... so bear with me hehe.
Anyway, just figured I'd show how I use some of the handles and give some thoughts.
(If you can't tell by my clothes, I've been busy today haha)
Here I'm doing a carry with the Ultra grip handle. Not much weight because I just threw it together real quick and that's what was already laying there. However, that 20 pounds with this handle was brutal. The way this handle attacks your fingertips is brutal. Imagine the force multiplier that creates from that sort of lever. But finger pressure is an essential part of arm wrestling which is why I love it. You can adjust how far out the pressure is on your fingertips by threading the metal part of the handle through any of the 3 holes. And if you look carefully at the way that part is shaped, you can see that it also attacks my knuckle up at my wrist as well, or even the opposite if you turn it around. You can also adjust this pressure by attaching the cable to any of the 3 holes in it.
Now, I'm obviously not showing off or anything as the weight is pretty light. I'm only trying to show stuff I do with the new toys. That and I wasn't about to try anything near max with my kid at the helm of the camera. We went through around 20 takes altogether for a wide array of reasons and it felt like a whole workout session afterwards haha. And that sound in the second vid isn't the pulleys, my kid dropped something. The pulleys are pretty silent.
This is a typical routine for back and side pressure during an "outside" pin. The grip really makes this difficult. There's only 30lbs on there (Don't actually know what the pulley is outputting yet...) but the dynamic pressure this puts on my hand and wrist as I'm going through the motion is crazy. If you look at the position of the metal part of the handle you can see that not only is it attacking my knuckle up, but my pronator as well. And the reverse if you turn it around. Can't wait to see the results translate to the table.
Here I'm using the round handle. This is just one of the movements I had talked about in an earlier post but is really hard to explain haha. I'm trying to keep my shoulders bowed in like I would on the table. But again, the handle puts pressure on my fingertips as well. It's different than the other handle as it really opens up my hand and I feel tons of pressure trying to rip my hand open and peel my wrist back. It's sooo hard for my grip to get a lock with this one and since my hand isn't all the way closed my tendons are at a less contracted point than normal. So it really hits them all the way up my arm as I curl my wrist in. If you look at the pic of the handle you can see that the hole the metal part goes into is offset towards the outside of the handle. That is the pressure point and it's output varies depending on where you grip it. I grip it so that all the pressure is attacking my fingertips as this should give the best results. So my fingertips lay as close to the hole as possible.
Just typical wrist curls but with the handles on the cable system. I vastly prefer doing them this way atm. IMO this is the best way to do these for an arm wrestler as it simulates being on the table with someone FAR more than dumbbells. If you watch you can see that I put myself in a starting position on the table as I would normally set up and a small pulsating twist inward and toward me as I curl my wrist which also puts a load of side pressure on my arm as I'm doing the movement. Now, the handles add another layer of difficulty with the dynamic pressure on the fingertips. As well as the handle rolling so easily. In a normal routine I'd be moving the pulley up and down the bar as well. I think I'll prob be doing more of these with the metal part of the handle coming out of the bottom, near my pinkie, so that I can strengthen my bottom two fingers. They're the weakest part of my hand so far.
Anyway, that's all for now. I didn't have time today to do the cone handle. I'll get to it sometime later. Also, if there are any video requests let me know, I'd be glad to do what I can.
Keep hitting it boys!
Man I miss Tess...
Yeah I do lots of core with my workouts each day. Definitely going to buy some collagen. The skin fortunately is not even remotely as bad as some of those that I have seen. Just sits around the bottom of my abdominal region. Which looks weird because my top two rows of abs look and feel great then it just kinda looks slightly off but not horrible. My diet is mostly high protein, decent amount of fat, and lower carb.
There was one other dude there. I bought 5 classes on sale for $40 so a few more to go. I may stick with it after since it is more fun then regular cardio. I did order my own punching bag too.
I signed up for a 15k Tough Mudder in 5 months. I'm not a big runner, but my friend who I am doing it with is so he said he would train me. His wife told me not to because she tried to train with him one time and said "he is just mean and yells at you the whole time". Should be fun.
I started cardio kickboxing last week. I didn't realize it was more of a womens thing but it was a really tiring exercise. I was beat by the end and all the ladies were nice to me
Yeah it is a really good upper leg workout. My upper legs were really beat for two days after since I don't work those out too often. It should get easier with more classes.
Seems like most routines omit hanging work entirely yet you pretty much made it the centerpiece of the set.
He's huge. A baby, if you can believe it. Only 7 months old and Maine Coons grow till their 4th year. The breeder said he would be 30 lbs+ and we thought she was hamming it up for the sale, but it seems as if she was under-estimating lolDang great video @CAB_Life ! I skimmed instead of watching all the way through and I noticed you using a ton of hanging routines (knee lifts, chin ups, etc). Very wise
Also that cat is HUGE, or you are tiny (??)
I've been liking the standing bag after a few days of using it. It can move a small amount so a hanging bag is better for more serious and professional types. But for the low ceilings in my finished basement it works. I just have to move it back an inch or two after I am done using it.
I'll take one with some DUKKAH.
Yuppa!
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