Training for Ninja What?

Last week I trained 4 days out of the week, with the last day of the my week being on Saturday. I wanted to get cracking again today but I decide it would be best to have two solid days off in a row. Why? Because I listen to my body, when you feel an overall bodily fatigue don't push yourself, your just asking for injury. Now this overall fatigue is not too be confused with being just plain lazy.

My new equipment comes in tomorrow, I ordered some equipment all specifically for strengthening different types of grip strength seeing at that's primarily what Ninja Warrior is. Speaking of Ninja Warrior here is a good introduction video:

Now when watching Ninja Warrior you might think "good god that shit is wack!" But really like any sport it has a common theme that if you strengthen your body in the right way it will allow you to conquer the course. I've picked out the following:

Lets start with the lower body:

• Vertical Leap, you've just got to be able to jump and jump high, no if ands buts about it. That half pipe is high and having a coordinated run to jump is critical.
• Leg strength on the frontal plane, it means strong legs that can move side to side really well, I was watching a video the other day about a contestant trying the course and his side to side leg strength was poor and it was obvious right from the first part of the course.
• Lift with your hip not your back, there is a part of the course on the second stage where you have to lift up 3 walls of increasingly difficult weight. I can't remember what weight the walls where, I want to say the heaviest of the three walls is 135 pounds, right now I can deadlift over 300 pounds so I feel like I've got that part covered already.

To the most obvious part, the upper body:

• The back, all those pull ups and finger grip whatevers, the big muscle mover and shaker is your back, and its got to be tough as nails. The most amount of wide grip pull ups I've ever been able to do is 20. I feel like I'm going to need to be ever stronger that that.....
• Finger Grip:  THIS IS WHERE EVERYONE FAILS. You need to strengthen your fingers, go to a rock climbing gym or order some Eagle Loops and train them. That edge you have to finger across is the thing that defeats everyone. Fingers.... not just for gaming.
• Crush and Pintch grip, there are really three types of grip, finger grip, crush and pinch. Crush is how you can hold on to a solid object, my goal is to be able to farmers walk my body weight, so about 90-100 pounds in each hand, I'm up to about 75 right now. And Pinch grip, which makes my hand hurt to think about so I don't want to talk about it.

The obvious and now the not so obvious body part:

Your core and all other connecting muscles have to be strong! When building a house all the walls of the foundation need to be as strong as the other or it tips over, you're whole body needs to be solid and you need to get rid of any extra fat, its just going to slow you down.

Easy right? .......... on paper its so straight forward, the action however is a tall task.