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[jonp382]

This is mainly to keep myself motivated...I've had myself doing little more than one leg squats and one arm push-ups the past week. I'm also trying to fix my posture, ever since I started doing one arm push-ups and not as many pull-ups I've had a sort of swayback. After the fifth rep or so I start losing my form and my knee/back bends. Feel free to comment.

Running
One arm push-ups - 5 on each arm and then 10 each arm
Pistols - 8 and 6 on left and 2 sets of 5 on right
Pull-ups - 7 and 5
High bar dips - 10 and 9
Handstand push-ups - 6 and 5
Varied flag attempts

[jonp382]

Still got back pain occuring throughout the day. Did some more stuff today as well. Am I exerting myself too much?

Running
One arm push-ups - shoulder width, 7 and 5 on my left, 6 and 8 on right
Pull-ups - 9 and 6
One leg squats - 10 and 8 on my left, 10 and 6 on my right
Handstand push-ups - 6 and 5
High bar dips - 8 and 9

Flag attempts...no luck. Can't do freestanding handstands yet either. I'm limiting flag training and l-seats for fun. I can almost do an l-seat.

Setting myself some goals.

One arm fist and fingertip push-ups - 20 on each arm, straight back and feet within shoulders
Pull-ups - 20, I don't feel I can do plyometric pull-ups yet...
One leg squats - 20 on each side
Handstand push-ups - freestanding and 20
High bar dips - 20
And eventually one arm pull-ups and more importantly muscle-ups instead of pull-ups and dips.

[-TM-]

man you're in good shape.

gl with your goals-i'm also trying to do free-standing handstands :oops:
they're hard to do for over 5 seconds for me lol.

[eldus]

Nice, Jon!


I'm working one arm pushups aswell now and pistols. I prefer doing harder excersises like these and progress up with the reps rather than only doing mid-challenge excersises for too much reps.

Although at the moment I suck at handstand pushups..my shoulders are definetly my weak spot.

I find I can constantly do 12-15 pullups nowadays, 5-6 one arm pushups on each arm, but handstand pushups...they are giving me trouble.

I guess I just have to keep at it.


Good luck! eldus

[-TM-]

Nice, Jon!


I'm working one arm pushups aswell now and pistols. I prefer doing harder excersises like these and progress up with the reps rather than only doing mid-challenge excersises for too much reps.

Although at the moment I suck at handstand pushups..my shoulders are definetly my weak spot.

I find I can constantly do 12-15 pullups nowadays, 5-6 one arm pushups on each arm, but handstand pushups...they are giving me trouble.

I guess I just have to keep at it.


Good luck! eldus

man, i tried pistols yesterday, as well as lifting my whole body up with my hands on the floor like i was sitting with legs straight.... didn't work.

should i keep practicing them? or wait until i am in better shape?

[Moonduck]

lifting my whole body up with my hands on the floor like i was sitting with legs straight.... didn't work.

should i keep practicing them? or wait until i am in better shape?

I do this on the arms of a heavy chair in my living room, because I can't do it off the floor just yet. You might try it that way. Well, try it from an elevated position. The hard part for me is getting my feet high enough, but it is getting better with practice.

[eldus]

lifting my whole body up with my hands on the floor like i was sitting with legs straight.... didn't work.

should i keep practicing them? or wait until i am in better shape?

I do this on the arms of a heavy chair in my living room, because I can't do it off the floor just yet. You might try it that way. Well, try it from an elevated position. The hard part for me is getting my feet high enough, but it is getting better with practice.

I find if I bend my legs just a tad and push up hard with my hips I can do it off the ground.

Everytime I'm sitting on a heavy chair talking to someone I tend to do it haha

eldus

[jonp382]

Yeah, I can do the l-seats on chairs and stuff...not on the floor though. I'm nowhere near a freestanding handstand...

[-TM-]

lifting my whole body up with my hands on the floor like i was sitting with legs straight.... didn't work.

should i keep practicing them? or wait until i am in better shape?

I do this on the arms of a heavy chair in my living room, because I can't do it off the floor just yet. You might try it that way. Well, try it from an elevated position. The hard part for me is getting my feet high enough, but it is getting better with practice.

good idea thnx dude!
i'll try it tonight and get back to you on how it went :-D

[jonp382]

Whoops! Accidentally edited one of my posts instead of updating.

Not as much back pain anymore. Hey, my form is fixed too...posture a lot better again. I missed a few workout days because it was raining like crazy outside and it was cold. Fuzz that! So I let my self recover, I had sore triceps still anyways from doing tricep extensions.

Running
One arm push-ups - 8 and 8 on my left, 8 and 10 on my right
Pull-ups overhand - 9 and 6
One hand and 3 fingers pull-ups underhand- 4 on my left and 6 on my right
One leg squats - 12 and 10 on my left, 10 and 8 on my right
Handstand push-ups - 7 and 6
High bar dips - 10 and 6(my arms started to get painful on last few reps on second set)

I can't hold on to the bar with one hand yet...eek! I'll do some more training for it next week. Will move onto two fingers next week as well one arm assisted pull-ups.

I also tried some tricep extensions on a low bench and glute ham raises. The tricep extensions were hard and I only got 3. :( I couldn't even do a glute ham raise...wondering what everyone here does for the back of their legs to maintain flexibility and strength. I'm thinking about picking up my barbell again with deadlifts, but it only goes up to 100 pounds... :?

[koltz]

I think you shouldn't do more reps in one arm if your other arm is lagging , it will only cause imbalances..

apart from that it's a nice workout , I also reccomend you to incorporate different grips for all movements in order to remove any limitng factors and put emphasis on one part in each movement so together you iwll end up having more strength in the basic pullup..

try doing different grips every day

[jonp382]

I've been slacking as usual. Keeping in mind Koltz suggestion...

Running
One arm push-ups - 9 and 6 on my left, 9 and 7 on my right
Pull-ups and chin-ups - 8 and 6
Chin-ups with a hand and three fingers - 4 on my right, 3 on my left...
One leg squats - 10 and 8 on my left, 10 and 8 on my right
Handstand push-ups - 9 and 4
High bar dips - 8 and 6
Handstand work

And yes, I know I said I would go into 2 fingers this workout... :P