Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Confusing…

I'm not really sure why I like to combine exercises so much, maybe it's because I think it's cool to confuse the shit out of all the other gym patrons by doing wacky crap. Time for another complex!!

EXERCISES

  • Burpull – Burpee to pull-up . Leap out of the bottom of the squat of the burpee to grab a pull-up bar and perform one pull-up. If your pull-up bar is not very high, substitute one full burpee followed by one full pull-up per rep.
  • Ridiculous DB ComplexTurkish Get-up to 5x DB power snatch (example performed with BB) to 3x Windmills, then down. Do the getting up portion of the Get-up, then perform five power snatches, then perform three windmills (focusing on keeping the legs locked out if you can,) then complete the laying back down portion of the get-up. This equals one repetition of the complex.

WORKOUT

FOR TIME

  • 21 Burpulls
  • Complex, 5 reps per arm @35LBS
  • 15 Burpulls
  • Complex, 5 reps per arm @35LBS
  • 9 Burpulls
  • Complex, 5 reps per arm @35LBS

    • If you've never done TGU before, be careful. The transition from sitting to lying on the downward portion of the movement can lead to high speed dumbbell/face collision if not controlled carefully. If 45lbs is difficult to control, GO DOWN! More instruction on TGU can be found here here, here and here.

      (Note: dropping the complex down to 35lbs for safety reasons. It's awful hard to safely stabilize 45lbs for the mills after doing snatches.)

      RESULTS

      justin - 33:15

      Jason - 39:13

      Shiloh - 27:49 (no windmills, see comments)

      5 comments:

      Justin said...

      33:15. dropping the rx down to 35, as 45 was a retarded decision in the first place. I didnt even make it through my 'test rep' with the 45.

      jason said...

      39:13. used 35#DB for the 1st rep and knew it would be too much to do it all. scaled back to 25# for the rest. my elbow hurts.

      Shiloh said...

      40 lb DB, but didn't do the windmills (couldn't rotate shoulders to do the motion even with no weight)

      27:49

      Justin said...

      Yeah, getting that shoulder mobility takes a while. Seems like the more time you've spent doing the standard bodybuilding, bench bench bench routine, the longer it takes. Took me forever.

      Justin said...

      Excellent work, guys!