Sunday, July 1, 2012

Battling Ropes - Arms and Shoulders Conditioning

...because using 'normal' equipment is too maintstream.

Nah, but in all seriousness who like using dumbbells anymore when you can just swing around a 30lb rope? In this case its more a 25ish pounds of 1.5"x50' polyurethane punishment.

Which reminds me, quick shout out to http://www.contractorsrope.com/ for the awesome deals on ropes. If I had any place to recommend anyone to buy their new ropes I would definitely order from these guys. Not only are their prices cheaper but can't beat free shipping on orders of $300 or more. Saved about $60 bones just on that fact alone.

So, anyways, onto the workout-

This vid is me going through a quick circuit using the "Tabata Method" style of interval training.

Heres the skinny;
Each round is 20s of high intensity work with a very short 10s of rest in between.
The workout lasts a total of 8 rounds or 4 minutes in length.
You can do practically ANYTHING for the exercises but be warned there are some pretty exhausting ideas and workouts out there. Try squatting for example....bleack!

With this particular workout I just picked a bunch of random shoulder and arm movements with the rope that is looped around a weighted down box.






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