Results After 2.5 Years WALRUS Training

Here’s what a WALRUSish session looks like fir me. I have been very into circuit training for the last few years. The way I see it, WALRUS training is simply weighted or unweighted calisthenic, dumbbell, and kettlebell exercises in circuit fashion (rounds).

My session template looks like this:

  1. quad dominant exercise
  2. pull
  3. hip-hinge or hamstring-dominant exercise
  4. push
  5. abdominal exercise

I do two warmup rounds and 3-5 main rounds of 6-10 reps with 30 seconds between sets and 2 minutes between rounds.

Today I did:

  1. single leg squats
  2. ring pullups
  3. kettlebell swings
  4. kettlebell overhead press
  5. bar rollouts

If I were more interested in isolation exercises (which I’ve incorporated more in the past), I’d do 3 or 4 exercises of the above for circuits and then go onto 2 or 3 circuits isolation and/or ab exercises.

So an example session would be:
Circuit 1 of 3 to 5 sets

  1. dips
  2. reverse lunges
  3. weighted inverted ring rows

Circuit 2 of 3 to 5 sets

  1. curls
  2. ab exercise
  3. tricep extensions
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