10/3/23
Today’s workout was a playful mix of a barbell loaded to 65lbs (a few reverse curls and curls – the curls with slow negatives and a 90° joint angle isometric hold on the final rep), a tad of flipping and catching a 25lb bumper plate, some burpees, but mostly handstand practice.
“plate flip challenge” – I’m more proud of it with my right
I love the handstand.
This, again, becoming a period where I do lots of handstand practice.
See, of Doug Hepburn was doing freestanding handstand pushups while both shorter and heavier than me, I can get to that level too!
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The handstand is a surprisingly full body workout.
More than anything I felt my lats, while the velocity of kicking up, landing, the lower body works in something of a plyometric manner.
Try it. You’ll see.
Acrobatics are awesome.
I settle on lots of handstands cause I enjoy the thing, the euphoria the first goal, the pump, the great sweat, the metabolic effect I notice from gymnastic type training all secondary, tertiary benefits.
Go train to be awesome.
To be capable of basic gymnastics, animal movements, decent sprinting and jumping, while too brutally strong…
The aesthetic is a side effect.
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I realized with a heavy late lunch (a few hours before the session) that one meal ish a day is where my energy levels feel best.
I hadn’t needed to eat then, and the meatballs (a mix of beef and pork) were far too heavy a food choice.
I want that saturated fat, and dessert, and whatever, at dinner time, maybe later.
If I’m really hungry I may have two dinners in around a five hour pm timespan.
If I feel the need I’ll have something light earlier than that big meal, it’s not a rigid thing, but it’s what has the most history of me feeling good while on it.
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Related to the last, the feeling I have after a great sweat from handstands, or from the out of breath euphoria of bunches of burpees – these things never make me ravenous, but make me want to hydrate.
I put water to my lips, and know the existence of god, water is that heavenly after a good calisthenics sweat.
Things like this, it’s what makes me want to see all busting out simple daily workouts, things that don’t have to be much quantifiable – burpees and jumping jacks mixed back and forth til a state of bliss, high rep calisthenics where you discover it’s like running sprints.
People need to workout.
They don’t need equipment.
15:00 of one no equipment required exercise can make a huge difference in one’s life.
Most would have the workout of their life just doing jumping jacks for the time, no treadmill tomfoolery.
Persistence & Tenacity