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Also, in response to your question about pull up bars and rings... I don't know what your living arrangements are, but if you have a staircase with a high ceiling (like the wall/ceiling makes an upside down L shape instead of the ceiling being slanted at the same angle as the stairs), you could try putting the pullup bar there. That gives you the chance to hang rings with a bit of extra space below them, and it also gives you a chance to practice muscle ups!
Otherwise, if you can install some sort of |___| shaped iron piping onto the ceiling, or a horizontal support beam, you can tie the rings off onto that.
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« Reply #331 on: September 03, 2008, 07:24:02 AM » |
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Got a heart rate monitor with GPS for my anniversary! Yeap, I knew my wife loved me
I've only used it twice and it's amazing the amount of info you get, not to mention how much it helps your training.
I went on a run sunday and was able to track my speed and heart-rate. I don't know how I ever did without it. I set an alarm for whenever I was going slower than 10:30/m. It never went off cause I was tracking my heart-rate, making sure it never went under 165. At this pace, after 2 miles, I was spent! My average heartrate was 157, and I had topped out at 176 bpm
Now my curiosity really kicked in. We had an early Labor-day WOD in the park. We were doing Helen, and I really wanted to know what my heart-rate got up to when doing X-Fit... surely it was greater than running, I mean, I don't crash to the floor when I run, so...
I had forgotten to turn off my 10:30/mile alarm, so I was fine when doing the 400m sprints, but as soon as I stopped to grab the kettlebell, it would go berzerk! I chose to ignore it, but it was annoying.
Whenever I felt I was spent, I'd look at my HRM.... 172 bpm? Bah, push harder!
My average heart-rate during the WOD was 170, and I peaked at 181! Yeah... I pushed alright!
At least now when I think I have nothing left in me, I have some stats to look at and tell me "You've pushed harder, give it a little more"
What kind did you get? I recently got a Forerunner 205 and I love it. I opted not to get the one with a heart rate monitor, just because I have used a hrm in the past and I was too much a slave to it. An awesome feature on mine is a virtual training partner. Say you want to do a 5k @ 10 minute mile pace. You plug it in and then while you run it shows you a little guy and says how far ahead or far behind him you are. It makes a perfect rabbit for trying to set new PRs. |
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« Reply #332 on: September 03, 2008, 09:20:40 AM » |
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What kind did you get? I recently got a Forerunner 205 and I love it. I opted not to get the one with a heart rate monitor, just because I have used a hrm in the past and I was too much a slave to it. An awesome feature on mine is a virtual training partner. Say you want to do a 5k @ 10 minute mile pace. You plug it in and then while you run it shows you a little guy and says how far ahead or far behind him you are. It makes a perfect rabbit for trying to set new PRs.
I got the Forerunner 205, but I saw the 305 was $40 more, so I asked my wife if she would mind if I exchanged it. I've been so bent on getting an HRM that I didn't realize all the other cool features it had. That's actually really cool. I'd love to play with one sometime... get some scientific feedback to compare different activities.
Is there any software to go with it? Can you export the data into graphs and charts on the computer?
Yeah, it has some software and a cradle where you just download your training stats too. It's funny, cause on my last round of Helen, trainer told me he'd give me a 10 second count to recoup, and you can actually see my HR going down during those 10 seconds! I think you can also export the tracks to Google Maps, but I haven't figured out how yet |
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« Reply #333 on: September 03, 2008, 08:51:26 PM » |
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Yeah, it has some software and a cradle where you just download your training stats too. It's funny, cause on my last round of Helen, trainer told me he'd give me a 10 second count to recoup, and you can actually see my HR going down during those 10 seconds! I think you can also export the tracks to Google Maps, but I haven't figured out how yet
I am warning you, don't get too familiar with the software and don't try the google earth feature. If you try it at work you will have a moral obligation to ask your employeer to reduce your pay by 10% because of all the time you will waste looking at cool charts and maps. |
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« Reply #334 on: September 04, 2008, 08:42:33 AM » |
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I am warning you, don't get too familiar with the software and don't try the google earth feature. If you try it at work you will have a moral obligation to ask your employeer to reduce your pay by 10% because of all the time you will waste looking at cool charts and maps.
LMAO... I've been burning the midnight oil... I don't think some time browsing on the net will hurt... oh, wait, here comes my manager... bye! We'll see. I really want to get to know all my stats to track what I can do better, and see my improvement. Last night I did my own sort of WOD AMRAP in 20 min of: - 10 HSPUs (with parallettes) - 15 squats - 15 sit-ups I ended up doing 6, but had to switch from HSPUs to inclined push-ups with paralettes after about the third round. |
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« Reply #335 on: September 05, 2008, 01:25:16 PM » |
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Dod the following WOD
For Time
400m
40 Squats
400m
30 Squats
400m
20 Squats
400m
10 Squats
400m
My time: 23:40
It was fun, because a buddy of mine started out a minute or two before me. By the 3rd sprint, I was ahead of him by 100m. At the end, I heard everyone yelling "he's catching up to you!". I had about 100m to go, and was completely out of air, with cramps, my ears were popping, but I didn't want my buddy to pass me, so somehow I found energy to do a full speed sprint!
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« Reply #336 on: September 05, 2008, 02:19:28 PM » |
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Did your use your forerunner so you could make a cool chart showing the interplay of your heart rate, speed, and time whilst alternating between 400m sprints and squats?
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« Reply #337 on: September 06, 2008, 10:19:30 AM » |
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Did your use your forerunner so you could make a cool chart showing the interplay of your heart rate, speed, and time whilst alternating between 400m sprints and squats?
I have it on the watch now, but I kind of screwed up, because I was so tired from all the sprinting that I forgot to turn the stopwatch off. My average speed and HR will be completely messed up, but you can see the effort the first 20 minutes or so. I know my HR was at about 172 BPM the whole time and I didn't rest between sprints and squats. The dude I raced with went off the track to a spot where he was squatting, whereas I squatted right on the track and then kept runniing... I figure that's how I got ahead of him after the first 3 rounds Now... the BIG NEWS!!! SOMEONE UP THERE IS SMILING AT ME I've been researching the best solution for a pull-up bar, and just today I was checking Amazon and what not for possible solutions. As you all know far too well, I have been complaining a lot about not doing enough pull-ups during my X-fit training, and only being able to do them when I hit the gym, which is only about once a week Well, while on Amazon my wife reminded me I had to go pick up some food we had ordered. As I'm backing out of the garage, guess what I noticed in my neighbor's bulk trash... http://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-99403-Power-Stand-II/dp/B0001AJIAC/ref=pd_bbs_6?ie=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=1220721517&sr=8-6 |
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« Reply #338 on: September 06, 2008, 11:24:07 AM » |
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« Reply #339 on: September 06, 2008, 12:33:44 PM » |
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wow
good find
bolt or weld a bar across the top in the middle and its perfect! other than that, still damn good!
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« Reply #340 on: September 06, 2008, 12:43:17 PM » |
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wow
good find
bolt or weld a bar across the top in the middle and its perfect! other than that, still damn good!
It actually has the bar across the middle. I might give it a paint job and unbend one of the ends which was probably bent due to neglect. I've already begun my GTG pull-ups! Wooot! |
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« Reply #341 on: September 08, 2008, 05:23:52 AM » |
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33 pull-ups saturday, 40 sunday, plus mowing my lawn, which is a 2000 calorie workout in itself.
SHoulders are a bit sore, so I'm going to lay off the pull-ups for today. Also, the padding on the pull-up bar is wreaking havoc on my hands. It seems it would be better if there were no padding at all... something to think about
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« Reply #342 on: September 08, 2008, 06:04:30 AM » |
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padding?! wtf. rip that shit off and wrap it in athletic tape
if that doesn't work...then just wrap it in athletic tape very tightly
padding for the lose...
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« Reply #343 on: September 09, 2008, 05:39:52 AM » |
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padding?! wtf. rip that shit off and wrap it in athletic tape
if that doesn't work...then just wrap it in athletic tape very tightly
padding for the lose...
I hear that. You have to take into account who they market these things to, though. It needs a complete repainting, changing of the screws, which are all rusted because he kept it outside beside his pool, and one of the sides of the pull-up bar is bent down, so I have to bend it back up. Yesterday I took a day off the pull-ups cause my shoulders were acting up again. In the evening, I did a the following Tabata WOD 30sec work/15sec of rest for 5 intervals each movement - 2 rounds KB Swings (M-1.5 pood/W-1 pood ) Box Jumps, 20" Push-ups Sit-ups Wall Ball No clue how many reps I did. I was pretty happy about my form on the Wall-Ball, particularly because I have corrected the issues I had in my squat. I also was able to do about 17 or so reps in each 30 second Tabata, which was pretty nice. Right after the WOD finished, someone joked about doing a 200m sprint. I immediately got up, so, guess what? Everyone had to do it... it was a nice finishing touch |
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« Reply #344 on: September 10, 2008, 05:22:31 AM » |
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Well, another late night at the office prevented me from trainning again.
Good thing I got some pull-up work done in the morning: about 5 sets of 4 which was intended to be a GTG, but I couldn't come through with the night portion of it... alas, today I'll probably head to the gym and do some deadlifting, maybe some bench press
Since saturday, I've done a lot of pull-up work, which I'm pretty happy with. So far it's been looking like this:
Pullups / day:
Saturday / 33
Sunday / 40
Monday / rest
Tuesday / 20
Today (so far) / 20
I squeezed in 5 rounds of 4 this morning, starting from the moment I wake up. It seems this job is taking a pace where I'll have to do that, cause almost on a daily basis I'm hit with the "Guess what? you're working late again" surprise... Hopefully we can get this project out the door soon so I can get back to a normal life
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