I saw a guy today do Farmers Walks with 305 pounds..... he weighed 210. It was inspiring.
As I've mentioned before, at the end of this month I'll put myself though the "test run" to see where my strength is at. Then I'll throw a math equation on top of it all to determine whether or not I'll be able to compete in Ninja Warrior with the enough strength.
American Ninja Warrior try outs from last year where in May, lets say the middle of May, so at the end of January that gives me 16 more weeks of training. Not including cardio, doing 3 work outs a week that would be 48 workouts, now if I did two workouts 3 days a week then that would be 96 workouts....
The thing is you DO NOT GROW DURING A WORKOUT, you grow in the 24-48 hours AFTER the workout. A lot of people don't seem to understand that simple concept, some think that when they workout they are getting stronger EVERY SECOND.......
This is why your nutrition is so super important. You want to load some food in to give you strength during your workout, then you want to feed that muscle and growth the many many hours afterwards. The cool part about having two workouts a day is I'd get to eat more! ...... its not really all its cracked up to be, you actually get tired of eating at some point.
My brother has one of the new iphone's I think when the time comes to "test where I'm at" I'll take him to the gym with me and have him record the test, then splice it all the bits together. Each month I can visually compare how I'm doing in addition to the actually numbers of reps and weight. Sometimes just the smooth look of the exercise can make a difference.
It's funny my girlfriend is big into pull ups and she saw me watching Ninja Warrior one day and was like "that looks awesome" and I told her "they have a women's one too" and she watched it, and saw how much balance was involved and immediately was like "fuck that."
Speaking of balance, at the gym I tried one of the indo board balance traininers, they look like one of these:
I was thinking to myself, "hey I'll give it a try I've got to test out my balance and work it up" I slipped and fell on the side of my ass in a 1/2 second. I'm sure the whole gym saw but I didn't hear any laughter and no one ran over to me, so maybe those who saw me just thought I was doing capoeira or something (I do that in the gym often) so ya.... second time around was much better I started with the wall as my guide first instead of jumping on it.
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