no interest here?
any suggestions as for what you guys would like to see in terms of challenges?
The ideas are great, and sound. Dan John actually loves the second two of them, I think. They can be a measurement of athletic performance.
Only read about the dot drill in various athletic-performance related books, seems a wicked way of improving speed and agility in various sports such as basketball, football or the like.
I think a standing long jump would be a sort of great cross-over/transfer-of-training if a person is lifting for any given sport, and not just for the sake of lifting, or body composition.
I would not train specifically for it, but rather try it once a month to see if there is any improvement in my ability to generate explosive power.
400 m sprints would be a great way to increase cardio, unfortunately I have had my fair share of 400m sprints in the last few months, and I'd rather try something else at the moment. I just hated them, and will only incorporate them next year when I want to break the 2:00 hrs in my next half-marathon.
My personal challenge is quite a bit different at the moment. I focus on lifting right now, a bit of martial arts, a bit of biking, but mostly lifting for gaining mass. You could call it a drive for body composition, but I imagine an improvement in performance along the way.
Two weeks ago I posted this:
I have started to lift again (only running sucks), and my plan is to be able to lift my body weight for ten reps (DL and Back Squat) again in three months, be able to do ten perfect (no forced reps) dead-hang pull ups, strict Military Press at least 3/4 of my bodyweight and be able to do a TGU with half my bodyweight.
Right now I think pressing that much weight (~60kg) is too much too soon. I think half my bodyweight is more than enough. I want to continue lifting and being active and mobile to do so for the rest of my life without hurting me in the long term, if you know what I mean.
Squatting and DL'ing my bodyweight for ten clean and not really forced reps is achievable, I think. The TGU with ~45kg seems realistic as well.
Only my pull-ups suck big time. But rows and pull-ups may be the cure for ten technically clean reps at the beginning of September.
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