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Outdoor Workouts

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Admin

Well, it’s that time of year…

Time get back outside for some 110% H.A.M. outdoor training sessions.

I LOVE this time of year especially since I live in Nebraska where it gets brutally cold in the winter as I can’t wait to get outside to crank some outdoor training sessions.

Besides just getting outside into the fresh air, there’s some other reasons WHY you should be training outdoors if you’re currently not doing so…

Build Mental Toughness

There’s nothing like training in the hot sun in 90 degree weather. That alone will build a stronger mind.

Some my TOUGHEST, most brutal workouts I can ever remember came from when I was training outdoors.

These days, too many people want nice air conditioned gyms that shelter them from the harsh elements outside. This will NOT make you any tougher.

Instead, get out of your air conditioned gym and get yourself outdoors where you can breath the fresh air, soak up the sun, and get your hands dirty.

Even if you train in a garage gym like I do, it’s still a necessity get yourself outdoors to train.

Go find a playground and crank some bodyweight training or bring a kettlebell with you and just do work.

Get Some Much Needed Vitamin D

Most people do NOT get near enough Vitamin D as we’re trapped inside most of the day for work, but then when we get the chance to get outside, we pass it up. And when we do workout, it’s always indoors which doesn’t help.

It’s important to get in some extra Vitamin D as there’s a whole list of benefits, such as increasing your ability to think clearly, help boost your immune health, bone health, and overall mood and well being.

Vitamin D has also been said to help raise testosterone levels which is never a bad thing.

Bottom line is if you’re stuck inside most of the day, it’s cool if you train indoors, but make sure to get your ass outside for a few workouts here and there. The sun will reward you.

To be safe, I’d highly recommend supplementing with Vitamin D as well. I take around 5000 IU’s a day.

The Outdoors are Limitless

When you train outdoors, there’s a LOT of options for you and you’re only limited by your imagination.

Great Change of Pace

Because who the hell wants to be stuck indoors all the time?

Go SPRINT!

Most people don’t do enough of these do to limited space indoors, but when you go outdoors, sprints galore! HILL sprints are by far the BEST.

All YOU Need is Bodyweight

When you’re outdoors, you don’t need any equipment other then what God gave you. If you plan on using equipment, you can never go wrong with a set of Kettlebells, a good ol’ Sandbag, or a Suspension Training System

Now, since I’m talking about training outdoors, I thought I’d share some of my past favorite outdoors workouts with you…

Sprint Beach Workout (wish I had a CLOSER beach!)

A HARDCORE Outdoor Throwdown

The Skullbell!

Gymless Workout in a San Diego Park

Good Ol’ Hill Sprints Back Home

The ORIGINAL…

QUESTION – What’s your FAVORITE outdoor workout of all time? Let me know and drop your thoughts in the comments below.

***If we get over 20 comments + 100 LIKES, I’ll post up 3 NEW 110% H.A.M. Outdoor Workouts for you (you’ve NEVER seen these before)***

Here we go!

Live and Train Aggressive!

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The “Pull Up Punisher” Challenge Throwdown

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Admin

About a week ago when I interviewed “The Pull Up Queen”, Shawn Kaminski, I asked her if she would throw together a quick “challenge workout” style throwdown for my readers and I.

What she did was grab one of her pre-done workouts taken from her NEW training program, Challenge Fatloss

The quick workout is called, The “Pull Up Punisher”

This simple (but NOT easy) challenge only takes 4 mins.

Here’s how it goes:

1A) 1 Min AMRAP of Pull Ups

30 sec REST

2A) 1 Min AMRAP Squat Jump Pull Up

30 sec REST

3A) Burpee Pull Ups

SCORE = Total Amount of Reps you bang out over the THREE 60 sec AMRAP sets.

I liked this one because as I mentioned in the video how I never usually do any sort of “jumping pull up” variations so the new movements were fun and challenging to add in.

Burpee Pull Ups I’ve done a few times before, but never a “Squat Jump Pull Up”.

What I like most about these movements is the athletic/coordination factor they add to this quick challenge workout.

Jumping and grabbing a bar requires a bit more coordination and athleticism then just doing a regular pull up requires.

With this, if you wanted to add in more of a “POWER Factor” to this workout you could use a TALLER pull up bar which would force you to jump a bit higher for each rep on both the jump squat pull ups and the burpee pull ups. This of course would help increase the overall metabolic demand and intensity of the workout making it even better

Hmmmm… Some things to add in for next time….

Either way, give this one a try and see what you can knock out. Post up your RESULTS in the comments below!

ALSO, get access to a boat load more of challenge workouts just like this one which are fast, effective, and hardcore, check out Challenge Fatloss.

Live and Train Aggressive!

Don’t ever ask for “EASY”…

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Admin

After receiving a few different emails from people that frankly, weren’t willing to put in the hard work or didn’t want to hear about the concept of hard work, I felt that this needed to be said…

(WARNING: SOME NASTY LANGUAGE INCLUDED)

From the mouth of the late, but truly great Bruce Lee, these are words to live by…

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”

So, what does this mean?

Well to me, it means that instead of sitting around wishing and hoping that life will all of a sudden get “easier” for you, that rather you “take life by the balls” and MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.

You do this through making yourself more RESISTANT to the different things life throws your way.

One of MAIN things needed is STRENGTH, both physical and mental.

How do you become stronger both physically and mentally?

Well, the BEST way I know of and preach about is by training your ass off in the gym

Now, don’t get me wrong here and think that you have to train at a super advanced level, all you have to do is train the best at YOUR level.

110% H.A.M.

Bottom line is, too many people are wanting and waiting for “hand-me-outs” and are not willing to put in the time or overall effort needed to get what it is they want.

People want short cuts.

Short cuts will NOT get it done and asking for EASY will not help.

Instead, get yourself STRONGER and MORE BADASS through consistent hard work!

Get yourself so damn strong and conditioned that it makes the tough things in life a whole lot “easier”.

If you want “EASY”, be willing to work for it.

Don’t ask for it, EARN it.

==> QUESTIONS FOR YOU:

What does this message mean to YOU?

Are too many people wanting “easy” these days?

What do you feel about this? How can we fix this?

Drop your comments below.

Live and Train Aggressive!