Health and Fitness

The Cross Bar
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Definitely. I’m almost 8 weeks with my PT now, although it’s all been via Skype that’s benefitted me hugely. Always been sceptical of putting my money towards one because they’re always quite dear but he’s providing me with some very tangible results already.

Chest has always been my biggest and strongest body part. Been working very hard on pull up reps too, annoyingly I’m finding that I’ve plateaued for a couple weeks now. The grip seems to be the issue which is failing me before the lats fall on me.

I just can’t wait to get back into the gym though like you say and actually get lifting too!

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Have you considered straps for the pullups? When I do weighted pull ups i need straps or i just slip off the bars. How many reps you getting to and what kinda bar are you on? Are you heavy also? yes, a thousand questions

567

Aren’t burpees meant to end in a jump when rising?

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568

Depends on how intense you want them to be.

Some burpees don’t require a push up in them either

569

Think these are called Navy Seals, according to the guy doing them. He’s an active soldier in the US and uploads his calisthenics/daily work out videos.

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570

Motherfucker says he’s not got a full tank and then goes on to do 2 hours and 500 reps of a fucking difficult exercise.

I did 25 minutes worth, but lost count and realistically think I did about 40 or 50.

Did do another 30 minutes of lunges, sit ups, dips etc. though. But fuck those are brutal.

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571

Yeah, 500 is an incredible achievement, that is some different level of fitness altogether. Genuinely it gets your pecs, delts, tris, lats, bis, abs, glutes, it’s a killer.

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572

I’m about 67kg. But I’m not the tallest guy either, around 5 ft 7.

At the moment in 3 sets I’m hitting about 9, 7, 5 where I’m at about 30 secs rest between sets. What sort of straps are you referring to? Might be a good shout mate!

On chest my resistance bang pushups brought my chest to a whole new level recently. Bodyweight pushups are a piece of cake for me now. Thanks for that tip @SRCJJ

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573

Oh really? In similar numbers to you and can go 20/30 pull ups without my grip going. Just look for like deadlift straps or whatever.

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574

Yeah adding a bit of weight to your press ups makes the world of difference. Same goes for dips. They’re actually great ways to develop your chest.

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575

Try doing flat bench flys but in the 4 main chest areas in one set .
4 reps lower
4 reps under
4 reps middle
4 reps above
but do the reps 1/4 - 1/2 - 3/4 - full motion
Flat bench flys touch the dumbbells on the floor .
That’ll sort the men from the boys

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576

Did anyone do those 500 navy seals?

I know it sounds daft, but could someone describe the exercise because even in the video, it doesn’t look clear.

Is it down into press up position, press down, one knee up to your chest, draw back, the other knee up to your chest, draw back. Stand up. Jump?

And repeat x 500?

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577

No jump and you do a press up between each knee up.

I guess the last move of standing up kind of acts like a squat.

578

Cool, gonna try it now.

Bank holiday madness. Who needs the DFS sale?

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579

I did half an hour.

I copied his number like for like so I don’t know how many I’ve done

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580

I got up to 60 (180) of those yesterday then died. Chest is banging this morning though, and glutes. Defo need more practice.
In my defence after 3rd pressup, I did a frog jump to get up rather than just standing. Real burpees include a hop/jump of some sort!

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581

Did you do them in sync with him or in your own time?

My massive problem is turning the knees up to the chest into a mountain climber hence unintentionally missing out one press up. Just can’t get the co-ordination

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Pretty much same pace as he did but I didn’t have the vid running to match. I think I did the first 20 or so too quick.

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583

Ok so I’ve just rolled out of the pit and only now experiencing the extensive damage done. What is this demon exercise.

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I’m in there with you bro. Feel even worse today. :joy: Need another rest day. Might just go for a run instead now if I can be arsed.

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