Things That BWE Types Often Over Look!!!

[onelasttime]

I will kep this short and to the point. Things like odd object lifting,barrel lifting,stone lifting,sand bag training,levers like vvarious sized slede hammers, chopping wood as an intergrated portion of a workout not the lesiurely pace that most of use take when we have a lot of wood to chop etc....... Can all be intergrated with traditional body weight training and not count as weight training......

One summer as a teenager I did not get my normal trainig time in the gym.THat summer I was lucky to get to the gym 2 days a week. That year I swung a pick and worked on a road crew tearing up and redoing cobble stone roads. Inspite of the greatly reduced weight training I still made great gains from the hard work. Years latter in College I did construction labor to pay for my wedding.....THat summer all my lifts where cut in 1/2 due to physical exhaustion after each work day. In spite of that reduced gym work I was stronger then ever.

So do not fail to include all manner of work. By compression of rest periods and by pickingup the pace something mundane can give great results. In H.S. I would often load the truck to take to the salvage yard by myself and do it explosively. SInce I was an Automotive APrentice I could explosively load a weeks worth of engine blocks,brolen crankshafts and other heavy parts as an odd object workout. Tossing engine's around has no real counter part in weight lifting or walking witha heavy stone pressed over head etc.......

Even if you are oppossed to weights real objects represent real life fully functional movment......Bailing hay for instance can be a great workout......Just think outside the box and if you have kids volanter them to work for farmers and the like over the Summer Break.

[whmaine]

Having been a hay salesman, I concur, slinging 800 bales of hay at a time is an adventure in endurance and strength.

[Erik]

Clean clothes and proper hygiene?


Or is that just me?

[CoolRaul]

Good post. I think about this often. Sometimes I think I want to be 'bodyweight only' or master the main BW skills before I move on to sandbag and other similar work (using weighted items).

I plan on mastering skills like pistols, oapu, hspu, which will take me all year maybe, and eventually oacu and muscle-up, which will take me more than a year. But then I hear about how functional it is to be used to, and conditioned to move heavy objects around, something we all do out of neccesity.

I've been attempting 'bodyweight only' training because it's definately something I can do anywhere. But, no matter where I am (unless impressioned in a strict way), there will be weighted items that can be utilized for functional workouts. It should be something that I stop putting off.

Thanks for sharing your insight, OLT. I believe I will start this year with some sandbag work, and or other stuff. I actually found a heavy rock last month at a truck stop, and put it one of my compartments. I was planning to find a good 'heavy rock routine.' Anyway, I tossed it out when I left my last truck. I'll be on the look out for a replacement. I'll probably make a sandbag or a bulgarian bag soon too.

[Dominator350]

I fucking miss doing manual labour so much. Good manual labour can replace conditioning and muscular endurance training any day in my book. I think living on my own land that I can work till the rest of my days is the ideal lifestyle. Every fiber of my being strives to accomplish this every day.

Seriously, shoveling, hacking, lifting, all the while breathing fresh air and covered in mud and sunlight... a beautiful workout.

I was gonna record a farm training viedo a while back on my friends farm, and maybe he wouldve helped me set some shit up cause hes in personal training, but my friend seriously has gone insane. He fucking threw an axe at his one legged dad while screaming in blind rage. Just insane.

[AshersUK]

I used to deliver catalogues, the catalogues were 2.2kg each and there was 590 catalogues per delivery. That's 1.33 tonne. First of all there was from the lorry to my house which was a 20 meter path. Then my house to the van, the same 20 meter path. Then the van to the houses of the people who ordered the catalogues. I was hauling almost 4 tonne a day three times a week. With a workout on top =)

[Tgarber77]

I too love Functional Training. I incorporate it in my routine regularly. I live on a cul-de-sac so it makes it safe to do things like; Farmer's Walks, Tire Flips etc. And, my backyard is pretty large too, good for when I just want to throw something heavy, or swing the sledgehammer around! My neighbors think I'm insane though. It is so fun you don't even know your working out...'til it's over

[billgetsstrong]

I used to deliver linen sheet bails for an Hospital delivery service when I was in my 20's. These cubes were maybee all of 1.5 ft square and heavy.
With no place to get a grip on them you had to palm them and squeeze your chest to carry them. That was a good workout unloading
semi-trailers full of these.

[gilstrap]

Originally Posted by Dominator350

I fucking miss doing manual labour so much. Good manual labour can replace conditioning and muscular endurance training any day in my book. I think living on my own land that I can work till the rest of my days is the ideal lifestyle. Every fiber of my being strives to accomplish this every day.

Seriously, shoveling, hacking, lifting, all the while breathing fresh air and covered in mud and sunlight... a beautiful workout.

I was gonna record a farm training viedo a while back on my friends farm, and maybe he wouldve helped me set some shit up cause hes in personal training, but my friend seriously has gone insane. He fucking threw an axe at his one legged dad while screaming in blind rage. Just insane.

jhc dom ...an exercise video of you shovelling pig shit would fly off the shelves ..........

[Dominator350]

Originally Posted by gilstrap

jhc dom ...an exercise video of you shovelling pig shit would fly off the shelves ..........

Youd think of that. Nah I meant like pushing or pulling a huge tractor wagon around a 25 acre farm, or rope climbing in a barn, tree climbing, lifting huge rocks and logs as well as a pushup routine, running lifting 150 pound bags of chicken feed.