IrishMike

What is a hindu push-up?

sitnspin

Ah, sorry. You might know it by a different name:

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GSPALLTHEWAY

lol i havent tried it yet but that sounds like a very very hard but good routine for total body and cardio

sitnspin

For sure. I got a good sweat out of it, and my legs were jelly. You definitely want to shoot for jumping at the end of each burpee, but as I got around the third set my jumps were getting pathetic.

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MTKrav911

I did a 100 Hindu's straight today in BJJ class. Now I can't feel my shoulders.

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MTKrav911

AKA as seal push ups. Seals do it on the beach though with the waves coming in on them. It sucks.

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sitnspin

That's why seals have such ripped upper bodies and they always win when I try to fight them.

Wait a minute. You're talking about these things, right?

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GSPALLTHEWAY

LOL

hey sit can you reccommend any other combos of those two things for where to start?? i cant do that flat out lol.. the form becomes so weak towards the end that im not sure how good it works... also the hindu pushups are alot easier for me then burpees

sitnspin

I don't think you should let yourself off the hook with this one. I realize burpees get harder as you go on, but the saving grace is that you have to do less of them each time.

As I said, this is half the number that my original source recommended. My suggestion is that you let yourself rest when you need to. Just focus on getting through it, even if it takes you a half hour. Make a point of testing your conditioning every now and then by doing this routine, and try and shave a little off your time every time you attempt it. It's a great way to measure progress, and by the time you (we) can crack this off without any rests, just think how great you'll (we'll) feel.

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MTKrav911

I'll bet those seals could grapple something fierce.

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GSPALLTHEWAY

i really can see i will get hooked on this routine... it involves so many different aspects.. which brings me to a question??

how often a week, and when is it best to incorperate this into a routine?? obviously if i lift chest or shoulders it may be impossible, but i jsut wanted to get some ideas..
thanks!

sitnspin

I don't know, because I tend to work everything every time. And this sort of workout fits into the whole rosstraining / crossfit school of thought that advocates the same thing. So for me, I'm doing it once a week instead of the treadmill and then moving on to weights.

Maybe do it once a week on an off day, because it's both a workout and a test to see what kind of progress you're making on your conditioning.

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786

What about weight lifting with bodyweight exercises. Should you wait a day or someting before or after lifting weights? Do body weight exercises help you with flexibility.

sitnspin

Again, it all depends on what you're looking for, or what principles you adhere to. The bodybuilding perspective is that you lift heavy and then give that muscle group a couple of days to recover and grow.

I mentioned rosstraining (http://www.rosstraining.com/) and crossfit (Welcome to CrossFit: Forging Elite Fitness) as two training philosophies that advocate busting your ass on a regular basis and constantly mixing it up, with an emphasis on short, intense workouts. Neither one expresses a need to devote any single workout to one muscle group, or even a separation between cardio and strength training. Just explosive effort that taxes your whole body.

Not everyone agrees with this style of training, but I do. As a result, I don't pay much attention to isolation or periodization. I like to go to the gym three times a week and tear it up -- do a bit of everything, work my whole body and sweat off 1500 to 2000 calories in the process. I may not go to the gym in the days between, but I still regularly get antsy and crack off 50 pushups and 50 bodyweight squats to burn some extra calories and give my muscles a little more abuse.

Your muscles grow when they're resting after being taxed, and they're being fed protein. It's up to you how much rest you want to give them.

As for flexibility, bodyweight exercises don't necessarily provide any additional boost to flexibility. However, flexibility is such a vague term. There are different kinds, and different ways to approach each. Check out this link for some info:

Stretching and Flexibility - Flexibility

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Crashsti

i like these type of routines, they are simple and effective. if i were to do this routine i would start off with the full 20 burpees, i don't like making things easy. of course in the beginning i would take rest as often as i needed it until i was done with the full program. as time progresses you're looking to eventually eliminate rest entirely. i would try to do this twice a week in the beginning and over 12 weeks get to the point where i could do 2 or maybe 3 circuits without rest. i am currently doing a program called LEG CRANKS and its been about 3 weeks since i started and i have made excellent progress. at first i had to rest ALOT but i rest alot less now and the reps get easier every week.

White_Eagle

Would this routine help with achieving better results in the Beep Test? I run about 3 times a week, but I wonder if this routine could help, esp since you can do it at home relatively quickly.

sitnspin

It couldn't hurt, right? As far as I'm concerned, any workout that exhausts you is ultimately going to get you in better shape if you keep doing it. And as GSPalltheway said, this is a good one because you're strengthening a lot of muscle groups AND pushing your cardio.

What's the Beep Test?

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White_Eagle

Some people call it Multi stage fitness test as well. You start running at 8.5kmph for a minute, between two cones that are 20m apart. Then, each minute you increase the speed by 0.5kmph. 8.5kmph is Level 1 and 9 kmph is L2 and so on.

It is a good indicator of your fitness.

Here is more detailed explanation.

Multi-stage fitness test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

AmErIcAnPsYcHo11

that beep test rocks I did it in gym one day. Its a way of running but ours had music between the beeps so it kept your mind off the running (even though the music sounds like 80's porn music lol)

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