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Conditioning: Hell Night
« on: February 25, 2009, 09:39:50 PM »
Hell Night is just taking a day of your regular conditioning routine and just turning it into hell for your body.  I reccomend doing it once every month or two. It should test your physical and mental strength to it's limits and beyond.

What you do is just pull out challenging or tiring exercises and do them. Pretty simple. Once your done with a large set of an exercise good enough to be a workout on it's own, you do something else just as challenging/tiring. The concept is pretty simple: bash your body (but don't injure yourself!) and then bash it again until it's pleading you to stop. Sounds easy, but it will try you mentally more than physically.

The idea is to wake up the next morning wishing you didn't have a body. Every muscle group will be sore. You can hardly crawl out of bed. But the day after that, you'll feel like you just won every event in the Olympics. Refreshed, amazed, happy, stronger, ect.

That's what I'm going for tomorrow. It will be my first Hell Night and hopefully it will go well. I'll post my workout and how I feel for an example.

The purpose of Hell Night is to kind of replicate training with the PKGen guys or the Yamakasi. Everyone wishes they could train with those guys. They know the conditioning is going to be intense an will make themselves unbelievably tired. Why not push yourself? Why do you need someone else to "destroy" your body?

Oh and for the name, I just chose "Night" because it's always dark and gloomy here in Washington State. And I always workout after school and it's usually dark by then. You can call it Hell Day or something, but hell night sounds cooler. Like a zombie invasion or something.  :P
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2009, 10:17:06 PM »
Sounds good :) Reminds me of Blane's Hell Nights :P Also reminds me of the Navy Seal BUD/S Hell Week :D

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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2009, 12:24:24 PM »
i would totally join the army just for the work out. but i hate getting shot with bullets and stuff.
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2009, 03:08:37 PM »
Sounds a bit like the Gauntlet, only stationary
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2009, 02:00:52 PM »
Sounds like an even worse form of the punishment we sometimes get in football.
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2009, 03:36:37 PM »
I'll actually have a hell night tomorrow, I'll stay up all night conditioning in my basement and perhaps sneaking around my neighborhood for an added challenge/break.
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2009, 04:01:06 PM »
Right on Matthew, always glad to hear there really are people out there training with the proper spirit of parkour.
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2009, 08:06:40 PM »
Anybody have exrecise suggestions, like long chains of exercises. Kinda like tabata(sp?) exercises.
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2009, 10:36:04 PM »
Sounds awesome. I'm going to try it out tomorrow after church service

Oh and for the name, I just chose "Night" because it's always dark and gloomy here in Washington State. And I always workout after school and it's usually dark by then.
I also live in WA, so I know how that is  :P

Anybody have exrecise suggestions, like long chains of exercises. Kinda like tabata(sp?) exercises.
What I'm gonna do is alternate upper arm exercises 'til tired, then core, then lower body, repeat. Like a bunch of pull-ups and push-ups, then sit-ups and criss-crosses, then squats and lunges. Maybe after that, I'll run my farthest, followed by parkour movements like rolls, vaults, QM, climbing, etc.
I'm guess it's pretty much all the movements you know performed to the max.
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2009, 12:13:05 AM »
It may help to set numerical goals for yourself, concerning the number of repetitions for these exercises - then push yourself to accomplish those goals and don't give up until you achieve them.
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2009, 07:25:35 PM »
I tried a small Hell Night. It turned out I'm doing that same workout about every day now. My main suggestion for Hell Nights are to bring LOTS of fluids.
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2009, 07:33:23 PM »
A small hell night would just be a normal workout, wouldn't it?  Unless its at night.
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2009, 07:42:17 PM »
Well, it was the hardest I had pushed myself so far, and I liked it, so it's what I normally do now. Plus I was really drained from school, so it was hard to push myself even to work out that night.
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2009, 05:38:42 AM »
Sounds a bit like the Gauntlet, only stationary


life is a gauntlet    :-\

i went through a hell night yesterday...  the snow outside  was melting and everything was wet outside

i stayed at home and pushed it to the limit with  some 20 lb dumbells  and various excercises
right now im a bit sore   but i could've   done better

your right about the mental thing....its not the boday thats holding you back  ,,  its your thoughts



i recommend using a ipod when going through hell
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2009, 08:37:47 AM »
Yeah, I have an iPod that I was going to use during training, but I don't really have ay good songs. I've been looking for some songs that would get my blood pumping, but I haven't found any good ones. I wish I could find some songs about parkour. That would be cool. Too bad the iTunes store doesn't have Ensemble by Apollo J. I watch the music video every time before I start training.
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2009, 07:25:49 PM »
Sounds cool - it's something my local group has been doing most Fridays for the past six months and the majority of us have seen much improvement. Just out of curiosity, what does your typical hell night consist of? We started with TK17 leading about three hours with an hour with running, specific warm-ups, and stretching followed by an hour of technical or strength training and then another hour of flow conditioning. He was injured in September, but as a group, we've kept the training relatively hard and just as long.

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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2009, 07:12:29 PM »
Some exercises that I have always regarded as good for anything are bridges w/ weights on your back, flutter kick (laying on your back while keeping your legs extended and toes pointed while moving each leg up and down ~8-10 inches) obliques sit ups, clap push-ups, four square jumps (jumping into 4 "square" areas in a clockwise fashion) lunges w/ weights, hanging sit ups, stair plyo's (ouch) ankle raises, dips, and good old fashioned sit ups and push ups

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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #17 on: March 23, 2009, 07:50:29 PM »
Sounds a bit like the Gauntlet, only stationary
Hell Night is two stationary gauntlets, or more.
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #18 on: March 24, 2009, 11:42:35 AM »
Sounds a bit like the Gauntlet, only stationary
Hell Night is two stationary gauntlets, or more.

In that case try this beast on for size...

APK Warmup x2

Max hold highest FL progression, then again at second highest, and again at third highest (Ex. 5 sec FL - 10 sec. Straddle FL - 20 Tuck front lever)

Same with planches

3x3 "Salvato" style OAC assisted negs each arm

5x 3-5, OH Pistols (Pistols holding an object over your head, it can be a weight or a broomstick, anything would work really, but the heavier, the better)

Then finish it all off with 2 sets of tabata squats or HIIT
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Re: Conditioning: Hell Night
« Reply #19 on: March 24, 2009, 12:06:13 PM »
zomg, whats a salvato style OAC neg?! :P

OAC negs should be handled with care.  If you can't do pullups very well yet and you start doing OAC you are asking to blow out a shoulder or elbows :D
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