Why Your Workout Partner Shouldn't Be a Random Bum on the Street

Why Your Workout Partner Shouldn’t be a Random Bum on the Street

            I always encourage people in the gym to have a partner that they exercise with in the gym.  It can be to the advantage of both of you and sometimes it’s always really fun to be with your friends while looking buff.  But if your workout partner is some random bum on the street, you won’t get the same benefits.

            Having a good friend as a partner in the gym can be the best thing in the world if you stay focused.  It can help you stay encouraged and you can both have at the same time a little competition to see who can do the most weight, within reason, on the lifts you do.  Also, one of the best things about having a weightlifting partner is that once you finish your set, then he starts his set, and by the time he finishes his set you would have gotten about the ideal resting time to get ready to go into your next set.  Also it’s always a good idea to have someone there to watch you in case you need a spotter for something or if he knows what he’s doing he can tell you if you’re doing a certain lift wrong or if you could do it better.  And all of this work in the same advantage towards him.  Also, you can both push each other towards, finishing a hard last set, trying a heavier weight, doing another set, or pushing yourself to your best potential.

            It’s always fun to use this system because over time you should see results in yourself and in your partner and it help draw your friendship closer together, some of my best friends are people I have been weightlifting partners with.  If you’ve ever had a cool experience with a  weightlifting partner or seen the awesome power of having someone there to push to the limit, leave a comment.  Remember we’re all in this together, keep your stick on the ice.

Getting Gains by Doing BODYWEIGHT WORKOUTS!!! Really Intense Bodywieght Exercise That Works Great!

Getting Gains by Doing BODYWEIGHT WORKOUTS!!! Really Intense Bodyweight Exercise That Works Great!

            Yes it’s true I’ve heard of a great workout that will help you get gains on your arms chest and shoulders.  Doesn’t that sound awesome!  It’s a big for anybody of any workout experience type, and it burns like crazy at the end (that’s a good thing).  I will tell you all I know about this cool new workout and see if you can take the challenge of doing this workout three times a day seven days a week for at least three weeks.  It’s hard but the strong willed can do it.

            First all you need is yourself and enough space to do a push up (if you can’t do a regular push up, put your knees on the floor and do it from their).  Then you are going to start by doing just one push up.  Then, you are going to get on your knees sitting straight up and do one weightless shoulder press.  (If you don’t know what a shoulder press is it’s when you hold weight at about shoulder height with your elbows out at your sides, and then you push upward above your head and return the weight back to shoulder height.)  For this exercise you will not need any weight. 

            After doing one pushup and one shoulder press, you will then without resting do two pushups and two shoulder presses.  Then again without resting you will do three pushups and three shoulder presses (starting to see the pattern).  If you for some reason can’t predict what the next step is in this workout you are either a little child in preschool or you are just too stupid to be working out and should stop reading this post now because I’m not even to the confusing part yet. 

            You continue to follow this pattern all the way to ten pushups and ten shoulder presses, then starting at nine, go all the way back down to one. 

            To do the challenge correctly you will need to do this three times a day, preferably morning, noon, and night, and each time you do it, do it with different variations of pushups.  You can do this in any order you would like, but let’s say you get up in the morning and do this exercise in a regular pushup position, then at noon you do the exercise in a narrow grip position with your finger almost touching while doing the pushup, then at night you do the exercise in a wide grip position with your hands about a half a foot wider than your shoulders.  Doing the different variations of pushups in this exercise will work different parts of your chest and shoulders.

            I challenge you to do this exercise three times a day, seven days a week, for at least three weeks and I promise you will see results in your chest shoulders and arms.  Also not a lot of you have been commenting on my posts, I’m going to change that, if you have tried this workout, comment on your thoughts or if you think I should change something or add something, comment that as well, if you even want to say I suck and threaten to throw your dog’s feces in my yard, comment on that also.  Remember, we’re all in this together, keep your stick on the ice.          

Role of Anger

The Role of Anger

            It’s the thing that keeps you going, it helps you get a boost, and it could make you stronger.  It’s like steroids but it’s totally legal and doesn’t shrink your junk.  It gives you strength to carry on, it gives you the grit to get that one more rep, then another, then another.  Makes you quit wasting time, and get going again.  This is anger and it can be the most powerful thing in the gym.

            Anger pushes you to get better, like a constant nagging in your ear to lift more and more.  Have you ever done something that you strive to get better at, then have you done the same thing in a total rage.  You feel empowered and you are magically better at whatever it was you were doing.  It sounds crazy but it works, musicians do it, poets do it, fighters do it, I’m doing it right now. 

            Now, anger can really help you in the gym with your weightlifting, but I’m not saying that if you bench press 100 pounds get in a fury and you can do 200, that’s about impossible.  But if you concentrate your anger on your objective and become totally focused on what you are doing, you will most likely be able to do more weight than you could do originally.

            True, anger is a big booster in the gym, but it only works if you are genuinely mad about something and only if you use your anger on lifting, not on something like punching the wall (that’s how hands get broken).  Also, if you are lifting while you are mad, try not to prove yourself to others to make yourself feel better, you could pull a muscle.  And if you do find that you can now do more weight than from before don’t show off about it because no one likes that and you could get your butt kicked by the people stronger than you in the gym. 

            Nothing feels as good as gains in the gym, and anger could help you do that, but if you’re not careful, you could get hurt or make all the people around you lose respect for you because of your actions.  So get mad, angry, and furious, just don’t break anything, but remember we’re all in this together, keep your stick on the ice.

Athletic Exercises

Athletic Exercises

            Most people exercise to gain mass, muscle, and girls, but there are also tons of exercises specific to form athletic movements and increase athleticism.  There are exercises to make you run faster, jump higher, or lift quicker. 

Hang Cleans-Hang cleans are a great and common exercise to help athleticism and quickness.  Hang cleans requires a barbell, start with the bar down at your knees and in one fluent motion, lift it up past your elbows and flick your wrists to end in a position of your elbows bent out in front of you and your wrists bent back on your shoulders. 

Hang Snatch-Hang snatches start out as a hang clean but instead of flicking your wrists back you throw your arms and the bar up above your head with your elbows locked up.  To do this right you need to move the bar above your head and elbows locked without stopping.

RDL-To do this you start with a barbell down at your waist and while keeping your back straight and your legs only slightly bent, bring the bar down against your body below your knees with your butt sticking out, and quickly bring it back to starting position. 

Push Press-Start with the bar up across your shoulders with either a regular or reversed grip, then push the bar up above your head and bring it back down in a quick and athletic fashion.

Doing these exercises will overtime help your athleticism and quickness.  These exercises could help in any kind of sport or martial art.

Cardio

Cardio

            Working out increases your mass and definition, but cardio is needed if you want to get the full package.  Cardio is about as important as weightlifting because it gets rid of the rest of the fat on your body that is very hard for weightlifting to get rid of. 

            Cardio can come in many forms, although the most common is running or jogging.  Running long distances at a steady pace will certainly get rid of the extra fat on your lower abs.  Although, if you don’t like running, martial arts, or wrestling are great for cardio.  If you’ve never done a physical sport like judo, wrestling, or jui jitsu, you will notice very soon that just a few minutes of participating, you will be soaked in sweat and burning calories like crazy.  Also, just knowing the skills of a sport like wrestling could help you later on anyway.  If none of those interest you, another way to burn calories and fat is to do regular weightlifting exercises but with al little less weight and a lot of reps.  Doing this will cause you to get sweaty and burn fat but it is also the same way to help you gain definition.  If you choose to lose fat quickly, a great idea to try is doing your regular cardio routine but with multiple layers or sweats on while doing them.  This will of course cause you to sweat more, but this will also make you burn more calories while your body is trying to cool itself off and your body is losing weight and fat from the sweat.  Although, if you choose to do this form of cardio it is very important to make sure that you are drinking a lot more water and healthy fluids than you normally would to prevent dehydration and unconsciousness.  

            At the end or beginning of each workout is the essential time to do cardio training because you are already burning calories and burning fat from your average workout.  Over time you should see great results in fat loss and body shaping. 

            To record your progress there are many apps and machines for cheap that would allow you to check your fat.  Many of them are set to measure parts of your body to see how much fat you have for your size and weight.  Body fat percentages are great to track how well you are doing with your cardio and fat loss.  The essential fat percentage of a weightlifter or athlete is around eight to twelve percent body fat.