Glad to read you were pain free. I don’t ever use wrist straps for anything and overhand grip deads until my grip fails (3rd rep with 405). Are you a professional trainer, PT or both??
Personal Trainer and slowly working towards my Physcical Therapist Assistant degree. I am using the knowledge I get from the clinical classes to help me help rehab people faster when training them. Sidenote because of my approach I get very interestimg people to train from World class Athletes to Geriactrics to kids to Physcicaly disabled to special needs.
Rant here the best people to train are females or the top level athletes - talk about blind devotion once they trust you.
Dynamic effort day (Repetition also)
close grip bench in the power rack. Pins set to hold the monster mini(I love these things) so when at full extension bands are 80lbs resistance each.
w/u’s then 185x3 for 3 explosive sets. 205x3 for 5 sets. 205x5. WOW fun stuff.
Pulldowns supersetted with Military Pin presses. Pulldowns 180x15 pin presses 145x5 (explosive off of pin)
Laterals and biccep curls are being done today (ran out of time, clients and weather)
bweight 233
Looking good Fischer, I hope you don’t mind but I have a question.
I am looking at doing band squats for hip mobility and for helping to keep me pushing my knees out on squats. But I can never find info on exactly which band I should be using.
Hope that made sense.
Band sqauts around the knees use : Pro short Mini’s. You will have to keep pressure on spreading them. work wonders. Get thes at elite.
Spread the floor with your feet coming up. Sit back and drive the back of your neck/head into the bar while pushing up towards the ceiling with your elbows-- does that make sense?
fischer
BTW. I am talking at a Health fair tomorrow and the subject is Kettlebells. I am speaking for 15 minutes in front of anywhere from 250-500 people. Yikes.
Fischer
LIFT STRONG
[quote]FISCHER613 wrote:
BTW. I am talking at a Health fair tomorrow and the subject is Kettlebells. I am speaking for 15 minutes in front of anywhere from 250-500 people. Yikes.
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Just remember that they’re all looking at you, thinking: “Damn, I hope that guy doesn’t come over to take my milk money.”
And p.s., “Blind devotion” from females? Hmmm, this trainer thingie sounds like it could be a good gig…
[quote]punnyguy wrote:
[quote]FISCHER613 wrote:
BTW. I am talking at a Health fair tomorrow and the subject is Kettlebells. I am speaking for 15 minutes in front of anywhere from 250-500 people. Yikes.
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Just remember that they’re all looking at you, thinking: “Damn, I hope that guy doesn’t come over to take my milk money.”
And p.s., “Blind devotion” from females? Hmmm, this trainer thingie sounds like it could be a good gig…[/quote]
It is a good gig.
Lots of arm work.
First things first. Bootcamp X is a class i run on saturday mornings. Includes: Tire flips,Sledgehammer work, Prowler pushes, Sled drags, bodyweight exercises, Javorek complexes with a Kettlebell, Kettlebell exercises, skipping and you get the point. Well today was the first class of the winter qaurter and it was a doozey (sp?)
Only 3 people got sick…LOL. Seriously the class states not for BEGINNERS in huge bold letters 3 times in the advertisement and I still get some New Years Resolution People (nyrp for short)
I got challenged to do the tire flip/prowler push combo exercise by a young 23 yr old. I had to bring him the bucket. I might be 40 but in no way am I going to lose to someone in front of MY class!!!
Recoverd and drove to the School where we had the Health fair where we had 2 biggest losers speak after some presentations were made by people who run classes mine included. Went well i thought I sounded nervous but everyone Said I did great. I will watch the video later of me.
Training is doing great and getting a hang of the band work with the lifts is fun.
sidenote: Been on a diet for 3 weeks - lost 1.5pds. oh well but lost 1.25’ of waist. down under 36 now 35 7/8 woohoo.
Not sure if you have done many presentations, but it used to be a part of my job. Always thought I stumbled through, but when you see the video one of two things happened … either it looks ok, or you are too critical.
You express yourself really well here, so I’m bettin it went fine.
I now know why I just really stick too the over 35 forum and leave everything else alone on this site…
sad really used to be very entertaining/insightful/thought provoking now the site is just a sales ad and the forums are really a bunch of people that are ignorant/selfish/childish- half of whom don’t even train - WTF is that, this is a BodyBuilding site for crissakes!! People on here used to help people out.
I am happy we have our own community here.
Rick
Good work on the boot camp. I need to get me a prowler, I need some freaking conditioning.
Re: other forums. From what I can tell, some of the other forums are populated mainly with extras from the Lord of the Flies, although I am strangely entertained by the dynamics of some of it.
Fischer, that’s an awesome-sounding bootcamp class. I wish…
(though I would have to hang out with the girls’ section of the class, for multiple reasons)
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Re: …are populated mainly with extras from the Lord of the Flies, although I am strangely entertained by the dynamics of some of it.[/quote]
Excellent -quote of the day.
[quote]punnyguy wrote:
Fischer, that’s an awesome-sounding bootcamp class.
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I got winded and then puked just reading what you guys do. Great work Rick.
Next time I am in Chi Town I AM NOT going to try your bootcamp. But I might come and watch, lol. Yeah, the other forums are pretty dang silly, Jack hit it right with Lord of the Flies. What I like is all the 18 year olds who squat 315 maybe handing out ‘expert’ advice.
Boot camp is an evil class. I get to yell at CEO’s, Div 1 athletes and soccer moms and they pay me to do it.
Max effort upper body:
Bench presses from bottom pins set where bar actually presses into my chest when at rest on pins. All reps are with 2 second pauses hands off bars then reset and press… 135x5,135x3,185x3,225x3,275x1,295x1,315x1,335x1.
Dbell shoulder presses: 60x15,60x25.
Chest supported rows 190x12 supersetted with rear pec dec flys 115x15 4 sets of each.
barbell curls 95x8 3 sets tricep pusshdown 115x15 3 sets.
finally today felt real solid on all exercises - first time no pain/numbness on the right side in almost 3 years!!!
Bweight 233
335 off low pins rocks. Nice work.
That’s some good traiing. I hate pin presses personally, awkward, and it seems my shoulder always wants to die on me. That is great re the pain level. I wish I knew what I know now about training oh, 15, 20 years ago. I think I could have saved myself much of my current aches and pains. But then again, I would never have listened to myself:)
[quote]FISCHER613 wrote:
Boot camp is an evil class. I get to yell at CEO’s, Div 1 athletes and soccer moms and they pay me to do it.
Max effort upper body:
Bench presses from bottom pins set where bar actually presses into my chest when at rest on pins. All reps are with 2 second pauses hands off bars then reset and press… 135x5,135x3,185x3,225x3,275x1,295x1,315x1,335x1.
Dbell shoulder presses: 60x15,60x25.
Chest supported rows 190x12 supersetted with rear pec dec flys 115x15 4 sets of each.
barbell curls 95x8 3 sets tricep pusshdown 115x15 3 sets.
finally today felt real solid on all exercises - first time no pain/numbness on the right side in almost 3 years!!!
Bweight 233[/quote]
Yo! good news on the pain free/no numbness. I was lucky 15 years ago and that happened right after the surgery healed. now strength is another issue…
Nice work
I turned off most of the other forums,
there is good stuff out there- to be gleaned and sifted through.