Super 7 It Was…

Original Lucky 7 from Body Beast:

Push Up + Clean + Squat:
Deadlift + Bent-Over Row:
Skull Crusher + Press + Crunch:
Curl + Military Press + EZ Squat:
Delt Raise + Reverse Lunge:
Lat Oblique Twist:
Upright Row + Calf Raise:

Super 7 for the kids:

Pushup – shoulder touch – vsnap
Squat – MK Switch – front lunge
Military – squat – pullup
Frog jump- squat thrust – hop out pushup
(with weights bars – 14 and 24lb)
curl + reverse press
high pull + front raise
back squat + press

Tuesday I took off to rest for the upcoming few days I knew I would be working out. Wednesday I participated with the girls at gym doing some of the Super 7 workout above. On Thursday I was very short on time but I did another heavier Olympic workout involving Deadlifts and Cleans something like this:

DL – 5 5 10 10 10 10 5
Clean – 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

Today I am hoping to do some cardio bootcamp stuff at gym but I guess we will see, I am trying to have weekends as heavy Oly lift and kettlebell or bench days so maybe a lighter weight free night tonight will put me in a better position to get back to the 135lb cleans again. If my back holds up, I am hooping to get back to a 200lb deadlift and 175lb clean by the New Year. If I can get back to a bodyweight deadlift, bench and shoulder press with a reasonable clean I will be  happy. Not so sure I can get back to a 235lb shoulder press but I guess we will see.

Lucky 7. Make That Super 7.

Lucky-7Body Beast is creeping into my life. I did the Lucky 7 workout a couple of days ago and yesterday I took off but I really wanted to do a BB shoulder workout.

Lucky 7 was actually pretty good. I did it without really knowing what I was in for except I needed a quick whole body thing.

Here is the workout, I apologize I stole this from somewhere but I have posted it whole so that the original owner can claim right and credit. I am going to make a similar workout for the gymnasts tonight since my assistant who has a concussion probably won’t be participating, it will be Super 7 since that’s our local lottery name around these parts.

Push Up + Clean + Squat:

For this sequence, you’ll use the EZ bar with plates.  You may need to adjust your weight after you see how much weight you can handle.  to begin, set the EZ bar on the floor.  You’ll do a push up above the bar: first with one arm in front (other arm behind), then the other.  Right away, you’ll grab your EZ bar, stand up, and do a “clean lift” up to your shoulders; then holding it in that position, you’ll perform a squat.

You’ll do this sequence in a pyramid set: 7 rounds.  So what that means is the first time, you’ll do one rep of each move: the second time, you’ll do two reps each move; third time, three reps… etc.  You’ll keep going without a break until you get to seven reps each move.  That’s a lot of reps!!!

Deadlift + Bent-Over Row:

Staying with your EZ bar, you’ll keep your legs straight, and perform a deadlift by lowering the weight down towards the floor while keeping your arms and back straight.  Right away, you’ll bend at your waist (keeping your back straight), and perform bent-over rows by pulling your elbows towards the ceiling.  Same pyramid as before: one rep each the first time, two the second, three the third… all the way to seven!

Skull Crusher + Press + Crunch:

Laying on the floor, you’ll press your EZ bar above your head.  Keeping your elbows straight up into the air, you’ll slowly lower the bar towards your forehead, then raise it back up.  Next, you’ll do a press with the bar.  Finally, you’ll hold the weight in the air, and perfom a crunch.  And you know the drill: seven rounds, building up to seven reps!

Curl + Military Press + EZ Squat:

Using the EZ bar, you’ll stand and perform a curl to work your biceps.  Without lowering the weight, you’ll immediately do a press with the weight above your head.  THEN, keeping the weight at your shoulders, you’ll do a squat.  Build up to seven!!!

Delt Raise + Reverse Lunge:

As Sagi prepares for this move, he makes a big deal about lowering the amount of weight you’re using on your EZ bar.  I would listen to him if I were you :)  This move is NO JOKE.  Get ready!

Keeping your arms straight, you’ll raise the bar up straight in front of you, keeping your palms facing up.  Next, you’ll perform a reverse lunge, alternating legs.  As you increase the reps for the pyramid, you’ll do all of the reps with one leg, before switching to the other.  THIS IS TOUGH.  Make sure you pick a weight that you can finish with!

Lat Oblique Twist:

You’ll keep using your EZ bar for this move; however, you’ll remove one weight, so that you only have a weight on one side.  You’ll then stand the bar up on an end, keeping the side with the weight up in the air.  You’ll stand with the bar vertical in front of you, the end with no weight on the floor.  You’ll then lunge and hold to one side, hold it for a few seconds, then to the other side.  As you increase up the pyramid, you’ll just hold it longer; you’ll only do 7 total reps on each side.

Upright Row + Calf Raise:

Put both weights back on your EZ Bar, and hold the bar in front of you.  You’ll perform an upright row by gripping the bar in the middle, then bringing it up to your chin, keeping your elbows high.  Holding the bar by your chin, you’ll then perform calf raises.  Build that pyramid!!

Leaning Towards Body Beast and Longevity Revealed

costcoxmasI did another Body Beast workout last night, the Chest Build workout. It was pretty short, not that brutal and I managed to work in my bench to make sure I had heavy enough weight for the presses. I am not a huge fan of the guy who runs the workouts but as of now I don’t throw up in my mouth every time I see him any more, so there’s that.

After Millennium Bronze on Thursday I took Friday off so that my weekend workouts would be effective and also because at the end of training on Friday I was just too tired to attempt the Millenium Silver I had outlined for the kids. For the record, they got to round 5 in 25 minutes. It’s tough.

Saturday I spent a lot of the day cleaning up the house and the garage again getting ready for Christmas. Nothing exercise worthy so I did an Olympic lift session that involved DL, clean and high pulls going from 75lbs up to 115lbs in preparation to move up to 135 for my DL and clean again. I would like to workout with 155 or 165lbs for both DL and clean regularly, and then up the DL to 225 for heavy days. Sunday I went to Costco and bought a Christmas tree that has lights that can do all sorts of funky stuff so we took time to decorate that and then I did the Body beast Chest workout. Tonight is gymnastics, and I think I will run a bootcamp for 30 minutes to get a bit of cardio into them (and me).

Here as some food for thought is an interesting article on the whole “people live longer nowadays” thing. Seems like we all remember Grandparents who were tough old warriors, fact is, they were all like that, mostly due to their food and activity.

http://www.weedemandreap.com/2013/10/long-ancestors-live-eating-bacon-lard-whole-milk.html

Weekly Now?

20131113_173636Last week ended well as far as exercise goes.

Wednesday I did 5 rounds of Chelsea plus a 20 minute Ab workout at gym.
Thursday off
Friday I did an all around 95lb Oly lift with combinations of DL, Clean and Squats
Saturday I did most of my FIRST EVER BODY BEAST workout. It was chest and tris and actually, I hate to admit it but I actually enjoyed it.
Sunday I took an hour of walking stairs with bins ranging from 10lbs to 60 lbs as I moved all the crap out of the garage upstairs to a store room.
Monday off
Tuesday I did another Oly lift day with everything but very fast and with only 75 lbs to increase the cardio component.
Wednesday I did Millenium Bronze, a workout that I invented on the drive home from work as follows:

Millennium Bronze

100 each:
Jump rope
Jacks
Crunches
Pushups
Squats
Military
VSnaps
Box Jump
Power Crunch
Burpees

I think the Silver and Gold will have to be harder by degrees, I am thinking something like this (since it’s really aimed towards my kids at gym)

Millennium silver

100 each:
MK Switch
Squat jacks
Bicycle Elbows
Ultra Wide Pushups
Pop Squats
Diamond Pushups
Single Jack and Jills
Double box jumps
Layed out power crunches
Pushup Burpees

Millennum Gold

100 each:
Arms up MK switch
SDHP with KB
VSnaps
Chinups
Pushups double shoulder touch
Pop Squat 180
Bar Leg Lifts
Double Box Clears
Bicycle Bicycle Vsnap
Plyo Pushups