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Is exactly what I'm doing.

After a long period of not doing any conditioning at all. Due to Job commitment's / graduating / moving its been pretty much impossible and far too easy to sit back and do fuck all so to speak. Pardon the language. Been around the forums since they started and was around when nokizaru was up too, long time ago. Memories

SO!

What I already do..kinda

I run occasionally...

Here's what I wanna do.

Hopefully this could be a good starting point for others too if they haven't done anything.

I'm wanting to keep it mostly body and avoid weights for now, I want to be able to do things here and there so it doesn't require setting up. I work 12 hour shifts so coming home after work and setting up weights + if benching finding a spotter isn't gonna work
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So core strength is what I'm looking for right now, I don't care about aesthetics. I don't need to lose any weight either, I cant stress that enough! I've been eating well and I walk everywhere.

I need all over upper body!

If anybody has any advice I would appreciate it very much, It also adds to inspiration if others provide advise! As I've known from past experiences.
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Welcome back xbass,

What was your name on the nokizaru forums? I was around back then aswell - had just started.

I would suggest something including pullups, pistols - or progressions, handstand pushups- or progressions, and abwheel rollouts - these are amazing.

try doing this on mon,wed,fri with the following sort of template.
A- HSPU 3x?
B1- Pullups 3x?
B2- Pistols3x?
C- Ab-wheel rollouts 2x?

Give your self reasonable rest times as the aim of this is to build strength. The pullups and pistols are supersets - meaning 1 set of pullups, rest, then 1 set of pistols, rest, pullups.. till youve did 3 sets of each. The reason for the super set is it minimises rest time as your doing upper then lower, so your gaining extra rest time for your upper body when doing pistols. Once youve got up to around 3x6 for HSPu,pistols we want to change to harder exericises - for this reason I recomend weights.

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If you have access to weights I would really suggest you make them the base of your routine. It makes it alot easier to train maximal strength as with BW moves you need to change exercises to contiune building maximal strength - this is problematic as it can often make smooth progression difficult. Whereas with weights its very easy to increase gradually in small increments and your progress is easy to track.

I would suggest following the above plan for a couple of weeks before making any changes. Start with only a couple of reps so that you don't get horrible DOMS and aim to increase each excersice by 1 rep a week over all the sets. If you want feel free to add a few more sets in the earlier weeks.
After a few weeks of this I would then suggest adding specific conditioning days. I reccomend that these are brief and intense - its from these you will get most of your endurance work. I would suggest focusing on movements like - burpees,pushups, squats, updowns, Dumbell swings - if you have the option. Basically something that will be a challenge when linked with other movements. The aim here is to develop conditioning so use limited rest periods and such like.

An example conditioning workout :

x10 Burpees
x10 Squats
x10 Pushups
x10 Jumping jacks - keeps your heart rate up whilst allowing a little rest
x60sec rest
Repeat 4 times. - this will take like 10-15mins but will develop your conditioning very fast. Short but intense.

Thats only an example, obviouslly scale it to your ability. Another thing that is a nice challenge is to do a deck of cards workout - assign exercises to either the suits or the colours and work through the deck as fast as you can. Royals are 10 This takes more like 30-40mins depending.

The last thing I would suggest for conditioning days is Sprints. 6-12 sprints/max effort run of either 200,400,800m. Hard but results are epic

Following something like the above you won't need to jog very often - however I would suggest doing it once every 2 weeks to make sure its being maintained - long distance running is in my opinion not something worth trying to excell in for parkour. I do feel we should be able to do a few miles in a reasonable time though.

So after you've added all this your plan could be like:
mon- Strength
tues- Conditioning
wed- Strength
thur - Conditioning
Fri- Strength
Sat- Rest
Sun- Parkour

If thats to much volume try:
Week 1
mon- Strength
tues-Rest
wed- Conditioning
thur - Rest
Fri- Strength
Sat- Rest
Sun- Parkour

Week 2
mon- Conditioning
tues-Rest
wed- Strength
thur - Rest
Fri- Conditioning
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Sat- Rest
Sun- Parkour


As rory said below, make sure to set SMART goals - Specific - Increase in pullups
Measurable - Track no. of pullups
Attainable - Be training it, possible?
Realistic - Follows a logical progression, not 0 to 30 in 2 weeks..
Timely - Plan mini goals to give realistic time frame.


The smart mnemonic points have a lot of crossover but its easy to remember so I use it. An example goal then is to increase your pullups from 5 to 10 by the 27th March. This fits all the criteria, Its specific, easy to measure, should be attainable, seems realistic as 10 isn't a terribly difficult number to reach if your focused on numbers, and a month for 5 pullups seems timely - slightly over adding 1 pullup a week.

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I highly reccomend any of his books- they are in my opinion the best fitness books I've read. At the very least read the free articles and his forums- hes active on them.

Hope this helps, Any questions I'll be happy to help

Did I miss anything rory?

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Yo xbass.

I was around back in the nokizaru days too. Whats your name? Im thinking Ian? Not sure why but i suppose it could be Ian.

I will wait till scott finishes his post before i see if i can add anything, no point typing the same thing.

As he said, if you have access to weights its a good idea to implement them (maybe even one or two days a week) although if you dont have the time then there are plenty of other things you can do using just bodyweight.
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Have you got any kind of program? If you do then post it up. If not then make one!!

If you set yourself short, medium and long term goals you will see improvements.

Hope this helps
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