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Last week I was on a combat training camp so no training apart from the weekend
This week I’ll be doing other things and I only have access to a pull up bar and a couple of kettlebells (I could train at 3AM but the gyms here are not open at that time) I’ll be able to squeeze in one session next Monday and then I’m off to a camp again until it’s weekend.
So from last week’s Monday to next week’s Sunday (21 days) I’ll only get in a maxium of five gym sessions
Gotta get really good with pullups I guess. This is why I’d like to be able to do bodyweight movements that go beyond the most basic ones
If I could pistol squat training legs would be a lot easier in situation like this
But I was planning on doing chin ups, push ups and lunges/Bulgarian split squats for ladders of 1 to 10 reps (so 1 rep, 2 reps 3 reps etc. Up to 10), then back to 1 rep, up to ten again and back to one. That’s 199 reps in total so I’ll probably do that extra one in there somewhere.
Yeah, it’ll hurt. Apart from that I’ll do something with the kettlebells.
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When I read that, The first thing I thought was.
Circle of Pull ups, push ups, pistol squats.
I cannot do pistol squats. So lunges or bulgarians of course.
If you do 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 that’ll ad up to 100 reps. 2 times that is 200… OH you go 3, 2, 1, 2 , 3 yes 199. My bad.
Just wait 5 minutes and do the last rep… Yeah 200.
I might try that one for assistance one day 
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That’s one good way to put it, it gives a bit more rest time which is both a pro and a con as it ups performance but lessens the amount of local metabolic stress (systemic stress would be higher of course)
Doing a circuit would also cut the required time down which would be a good thing
I’ll probably do it as a circuit
I’ll obviously need to step up my game, gotta add some rounds and cry a little more
We’ll see what I manage to muster out
That might, as assistance, be “only” one round.
After OHP Wendler way or Squats maybe, that could be fun
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If nothing else it’ll be a challenge - how fast can you accomplish it?
One thing I’ve noticed while training people here is that the people who are either on professional or close to professional level in sports (mainly football and ice hockey) are the ones that do not push themselves in the gym (or anywhere really) as much. Most of them are lazy and talk themselves out of performing even when I’m trying to get them to go on.
They have became so self obsessed that they think they don’t need to put in the work anymore - even in day to day life here they try to push all the work for other to do.
On the other hand, the guys who push themselves and have good attitudes are usually those who are not in that great shape. They are motivated and can go much further.
So, moral of the story: no matter how good you think you are, don’t become self-obsessed and never stop pushing yourself.
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That would be a quess
Next week I’m on a deload week.
I’ll try it and post the time here… 19 sets that’s gonna take forever now I come to think of it. 30 minutes perhaps.
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Do you plan on doing one of the exercises or all three?
By all means do time your work and post it here - it’ll be fun to see how long that takes for other people. (I already did it but didn’t time it)
All three of course
As a circuit with as little rest as possible.
The last “high rep” pullups are gonna be rest pause
I suck at pull ups/chins.
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Getting better with things you suck at is usually a good way to make progress overall - and pull ups/chin ups are a great way to measure strength and conditioning (plus they look cool and build you most important muscles, the bic… lats and back as a whole)
I used to suck with them as well but I got to 30 chin ups/20 pull ups rather quickly, and I’ve got to say it feels good to be able to do bodyweight stuff with little effort - you just feel a lot fitter for some reason.
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Chins are the greatest exercise known to man.
I’m doing a general conditioning session similar to the one you described a few posts back.
Great log 
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Nice, be sure to let us know your thoughts of it
Thanks man, welcome aboard!
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All in my log my man. Feel free to pop in👍
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I’ll check it out!
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I’ve noticed that if I stay on the same program for some time (say, over a month) I start to develop a lot more training ideas than if I’m just program hopping all around the place. I also start to get these weird craving for training.
Like, at the moment I’d like to run a conjugate program with oddlifts. On the other hand I’d really like to do some extreme bodybuilding stuff.
Usually this is the moment where I switch programs but I’ll keep doing the current one, I’d really like to finish it.
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Please do- remember i need the other phase haha.
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#DoItForDuke
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That reminds me. when you have enough time have a look, its a good read.
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At the moment I have all the time in the world
I’m definitely more of a problem solver, which is a good and a bad thing in regards to coaching other people
On the other hand I’ve tried a lot of different things so we are not limited to only one or two ways of training
But in the other I’ve very rarely ran long-term programs on myself so I can’t really relate to that (even though my trainees have ran several successful plans that were long term stuff)