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A bit of exercise for you.

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I constructed this delight today for my first training day after my PRMC ,since my knee is much better it was back to going red and collapsing.

Equipment needed:
Pull up bar
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Clock

Its continious circuits done as fast as possible.

1- Star jumps * 10

Stand straight up then jump spreading your legs and arms to make a star shape and landing in the straigh standing position.

2- Press ups *10

Arms tucked in ,legs together ,touching floor with your chest. Back must be kept straight of you restart from 0 again(dont cheat :D )

3- Crunches * 15

Bend your legs to a 90 degree angle while sitting on your back.Touch your chest with your chin. Place hands on your groin and go into a situps untill your hands touch your knee. Breathing in and tensing the muscle while going 'up'

4- Pull ups(palms facing away) * max

Fully extend the arms holding at top and bottom of the exercise for 3 seconds.

5- Sit ups *15

As demonstrated in the PRMC booklet.Arms touching head but not lifting. Knees together.

6- Pull ups(palms facing you) * max

Same as #4 except palms facing you.


7- Pressups (wide grip) * 10

Arms in 'civvy' (dont start this arguement again :roll: ) position and SLOWLY go up and down,i mean slowly 4 seconds for a complete pressup.

8- Burpees * 10

Standing upright bend knees and touch the floor withy our hands(hands next to feet). Extend the feet backwards untill in press up position then return to crouching position then stand up again.

9- Tricep dips * 10

Sit on your chair with your hands on the edge. Slide of the chair and lower yourself as far as possible to the ground with hands still on the edge of the chair. Fully extend your legs and keep your body straight(heels on the ground,not the entire foot).Then push up till your arms are straight then lower yourself down as far as possible.

10- U sit ups *10

Lie on your back and stratch your legs and arms fully on the floor. Raise your legs to a 45 degree angle. Then keeping your legs straight and arms fully extended touch the tips of your toes.

11- Raised pressups * 10

Place your feet on the chair and full extend your arms. Then lower yourself till your chin touches the floor and extend again. This is to be done 'civvy' style with arms shoulder width apart.

12- Mark Time * 1 minute

Arms bemt at 90 degree angle at the elbow and thumbs on top of your clenched fist. Arms kept in tight with your body and always at a 90 degree angle. 'Jog' on the spot with your knees touching your fists. This is to be done as fast as possible.

Rest for one minute and repeat.Then rest for another minute then repeat. Then rest for 3 minutes and do it 3 times again resting for 1 minute between each cycle.

You should never stop and should run everywhere(my pull up bar is upstairs so i sprint upstairs). Exercises are to be completed in the fastest possible time unless stated otherwise.

Just because your sick is no excuse not to finish the circuit,get soem water and carry on.
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Post by meh »

Sounds good Cronks, I'll try it pyramid stylee starting at ten reps down to five and back up again!
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Post by Matty »

That looks a hard B*stard, great !! Gonna start that nxt week after my aquaint course, cheers Cronkilla
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how many wide armed press-ups would you like us to do, sir!!!

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Post by Cronkilla »

10 wide armed, i edited it.

Its not a bad beasting session i constructed if done properly.
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thank you; i'll give it a go sometime, and if i live to tell the tale, i'll report back
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Cronkilla a harsh but fair training session :o. (god help me :-?)
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Heres another one for your upperbody!

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We had a bash at this one last night and its a rather good workout for your upperbody.

Equipment required:

Barbell loaded with 10-20Kg (depending on your personal strength)

5 exercises with 20 reps each.

20 * Arm Curls (Palms upwards)
20 * Standing Rows
20 * Bent Rows (no idea of the correct name) bend over 90 degrees, keep your back straight (v. important) and 'row' from your shin to your chest.
20 * Upright shoulder presses
20 * Narrow grip bench presses

Run through the circuit as fast as possible, whilst making sure your going for max quality! Rest for 2 minutes then go through it again. If your arms aren't dead after that do it again. You might want someone to spot you as you become more fatigued plus you can spot for them as your rest period.
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Post by bassboyluke »

I'm a rower and I think what you are trying to describe is what we simply call body lean, that is, don't use the slide at all, just your arms and body. Sounds like a fun circuit but unfortunately I think I may have buggered my legs; my ITB apparently...
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Cronks,
it's here if you want it mate, no harm, if you're not interested though.

That's fine when you're injured and getting your standards back up but I don't thinkit's intensive enough for what you're aiming for. I'd suggest adding ten reps to each of those exercises and after two weeks, increase by five, after a further two weeks increase again, after the first month have a few days just stretching and swimming, repeat.

Just as an example you should be at the standard when you can do a standard circuit, 3 times and each set you're doing 50-60 press ups. If you can get to that sort of standard you will find things a lot easier come Recruit training.

Also I would certainly advise scrapping V sits, they are murder on your lower back which you'll need all through training especially when you're hanging off the 30ft rope on bottom field with 22lbs hanging off your hips!

Like I said mate, it's there if you want it.

Cheers

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B*STARDS

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What about the "B*STARDS" exercise?? :oops:

You know, where you Stand, do a press-up, do a squat thrust, jump up star jump and land in the standing position and repeat. :x

The B*STARDS is in the RM circuit training hand book, so you must have done 'em.

If you're thinking about the RM, then you might as well get used to pain while you can. :lol:

PHIL :oops: - Try it!
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Post by Cronkilla »

Thanks for the advice oakers. Im scrapping the dodgy sit ups.
I tend to do that about 9 times resting every 3 sets. Ill adapt it to 3 reps with higher amount, thou i dont think i can do 30 burpees wihout bashing my face in cause im a lanky git :oops:
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Been there done that.........in CEMO :o :lol:

They're used primarily for punishment or training team entertainment so I wouldn't worry to much about practising them.

If you can do 40-50 Burpees in 1 minute then you have the co-ordination to do B****rds. They're awkward more than difficult.
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Post by Jon »

Phil, where in Liverpool are you from? Im a West Derby lad myself.
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Jon wrote:Phil, where in Liverpool are you from? Im a West Derby lad myself.
Well, I say Liverpool but I'm over the water on the wirral.
No-one would know 'Egremont' unless they lived near.

But I still live in Merseyside and that's close enough for me!

West Derby's a bit far... you sure your from Liverpool? :lol: :lol: :wink:

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