With a small amount of willingness to improvise the world can be your gym.
Most look at a doorway as a doorway. I have done the same most of my life. However, while gymless in 2015 I noticed the potential of a doorway.
With just my finger tips holding I realized an isometric to simulate a one arm row. Standing, pulling against the doorway, crazy good for finger strength due to positioning required.
Hold for as long or as short as you want. Just put in effort. Have fun.
The level that back isometrics translate over to a barbell is scary. I’ve talked how this exercise, a deadlift simulation isometric in my apartment complexes hot tub, and chins off a tree (doing mostly today’s described exercise) saw my deadlift up 30lbs, and my grip up proportionally way more without touching a barbell for 9 or 10 months.
I’ve just finished a quick 5 minute doorway push-pull workout.
I set an interval timer for 10 seconds on/5 seconds off.
About ¾ were pulling sets, ¼ pushing sets.
I stuck to one push variation, and a few pull variations. It’s isometrics though, you can make infinite variations.
The beauty of this is the adaptability. I didn’t have to commute. It was done in my bedroom doorway.
The work is very condensed. Consider I was under tension 40 seconds per minute for 5 minutes. 200 seconds, that’s not a little time under tension. In fact you could mentally equate it to a similar number of quality reps for the same bodypart.
It gave a stellar pump, and honestly these shorts sessions will strongly add to your work capacity base and strength.
This work pulled me out of a deadlift slump before without any specific barbell work. Adding it in again makes sense.
Get it done.
-J