RiotInferno

Congrats!

Congrats! That's a great name!

Although I didn't partake in this round of challenges, I really like the mini-challenges and I do subscribe to the announcements.

I hope everything's okay. Your NF family is here for you!

Today! I changed things up a bit. Per /r/BodyWeightFitness I had been doing 5 minutes of handstand / 2 minutes of L-sit work, and decided to change it up to as many reps as needed to hold for a total of a minute each.I messed up a little bit on the Ring Rows, I cranked out the first set easily, and should have stopped the 2nd at 6; the 7 definitely put me at failure. The 3rd rep was tough to get to 6, which definitely put me at failure, and gave a tad bit of pain in my bicep. With the push-ups, I kept trying to keep my elbows in, but it was putting some strange pressure on my shoulder, I'll have to watch some videos on technique. I'm getting ready for the next challenge! Body Weight Lunge: 2x10Jump Rope: 2 MinutesJumping Jacks: 80 Foot-Supported L-sit: 6x10secHollow Body Hold: 6x10sec Shrimp Squats: 3x8Push-Ups: 3x8Inverted Ring Row: 8,7,6Stretching: 3 minutes

I'll pay more attention to my butt. I don't know what it's currently doing, but I'm pretty sure my current holds are more ab-focused. Thank you for all the awesome information. Getting a handle on Hollow Body and making serious progress is one of my goals for the next challenge, and I want to be as prepared as possible to succeed. That being said, I won't be doing it for the full challenge, and probably limiting it to 3-4 weeks as you suggested, and will pay close attention to ab fatigue. Thanks again!

Waldo / Wolverine, I have a GTG static hold question. I re-read the beginning of the thread where you two talked about it at length, and was hoping that you might have some additional insight now that it's been a few weeks. My progress on the hollow-body position isn't anywhere near the progress of the rest of my exercises. I can hold the position with arms at my side and my legs at about 45-degrees for around 10 seconds. My goal is full extension @ 60 sec. Would you recommend a 10 second hold 3 or 4 times a day, or a 2x5 second hold? Is there any problems with doing this 7 days a week? And finally, when is the best time to "re-test", to figure out how to adjust your hold times per rep? Thanks!

Today was a great day. I used today as a form-check day. I realized that I was 'flaring' my elbows during push-ups and not necessarily keeping my shoulders back during my ring rows. So with my push-ups, I wasn't able to complete the range of motion that I'm used to (with elbows flared out), but man, did my triceps feel the difference. When it came to ring rows, I was glad to see that I only lost an over-all of 2 reps while keeping better form. Today's Workout: Body Weight Lunge: 2x10 Jump Rope: 2 minutes Jumping Jacks: 2x40 Hollow-Body Practice: 5 minutes Foot-supported L-Sit: 2 minutes Shrimp Squats: 3x8 Push-Up 3x8 Body Weight Ring Row: 1x8, 2x5

I hope you feel better. I got a cold in the beginning of Feb and missed a couple work-outs; which ended up kicking in my apathy and I didn't get another work-out in until last week. When our routines break, it's hard to keep going. I didn't know you were also going in for surgery. Hope everything goes well with installing your adamantium skeleton.

Thanks Waldo! I've been using the parallel grip, so I guess I'll stick with that.

I have been doing inverted ring rows and all the video I've seen have people holding the rings parallel to their body. Is there any benefit / detriment to holding the perpendicular, either underhand or overhand? Thanks!

St. Louis? I don't know what kind of people you're looking for, but if you're into RPGs or Board Games, Fear the Con ( http://www.conplanner.com/ConventionHome.aspx?c=111 ) is coming up. It's a gaming convention put on by the Fear The Boot RPG Podcast.

The engineering company I work for sometimes hires contractors for 2-3 month at a time that are 100% remote. The thing that keeps them contractors vs full-time employees is that they don't want to move here. I would definitely look into contracting / freelancing if your end-goal is to work from home. Best of luck!!!

I watched these videos and was all like, "Yeah, I can do that." It turns out: a. my brain doesn't like the idea of rolling. I can hear my mother in the back of my head yelling that I'm going to break my fool neck. b. I gave myself a pretty wicked rug-burn when I fell flat on my fore-arms instead of rolling. c. When it came time to actually roll, instead of bringing my legs up and over, they just roll to the side. So instead of a straight line, my rolls are more of a 90% angle. I think i'll put this on hold until it's nice enough to do this outside.

Congrats! That's amazing. I completely understand getting lost for a few weeks. I missed a couple workouts, and then that turned into not working out for 6 weeks. I'm back, though, and trying my best. It looks like you are too!

Today's workout: Body Weight Lunge - 2x5Jump Rope - 2 minutesJumping Jacks - 2x35Hollow Body Practice - 5 minutesFoot-supported L-Sit practice - 2 minutesShrimp Squats - 3x8Push-Ups - 3x8Inverted Ring Row - 1x8, 2x6 This was a really good workout. I'm focusing on going as deep as possible with my shrimp squats. My balance is becoming quite a bit better and I feel like I'm squatting deeper on these.My pushups are back to 3x8, which was where I was at before I took my unplanned hiatus. Previously, I had been doing my ring rows to failure on the 2nd set. I am now avoiding that, and getting better reps out of my third set (and more reps overall). I've started jumping rope for fun on my off days, trying to improve my cardio.

Do you have any references or things to read on how to start this? I definitely want to bulk, but in the past has always come down to "eat more stuff", and I just can't force more food into me.

Today's workout: Warmup:Body Weight Lunge - 2x5Jump Rope - 2 minutesJumping Jacks - 2x30 Wall Handstand Practice - 5 minutes ( 5 attempts approx 10 sec each )Foot supported L-Sit practice - 2 minutes Shrimp-Squats - 3x8Push-Ups - 2x8, 1x4Inverted Ring Row - 2x8, 1x3 2nd workout back, and I'm making some pretty good progress to back where I was. My cardio is still lacking, but I'm happy that I'm back to 2x8 on the Push-ups and the Inverted Ring Rows. The 2nd set of the ring rows has always been a trouble-point with me, so hopefully I can stick with the 2x8 and work on reaching 3x8.I increased my rest between sets from 30 sec to 1 minute, hopefully this will help. Shrimp squats are still tough. My left-leg has very poor balance, requiring more wall balance then my other leg. I'm very mindful to barely touch it for balance, as to not gain extra leverage. I was able to use my socks as a general marker for how low my back knee is getting, and it's still about 9 inches from the ground on my deepest squat. My main focus is eventually getting the full range of motion

Just a post-mortem on this. I failed at all my goals for this challenge, and went from 2/3 - 3/26 without working out. Anyway. I'm back at it, trying this again. So my new battle log is in my sig.

Well, I did fall off the horse. According to fitocracy, my last workout was Feb. 3rd. I got a cold and missed a couple day's of workouts, and that apparently was all it took to break my routine. I'm back though. Today was my first workout, and man I am out of shape. I wasn't even in good shape when I quit working out, but ( luckily? ) I only seemed to lose about 1/2 of the progress I had made (and almost all the cardio progress ). Today's workout: 2 min jump rope 2x30 jumping jacks 5 min of wall handstand practice 2 min foot-supported L-sit practice 3x8 Shrimp squats ( not full extension to the floor, and not nearly as close as I was when I quit ) 2x8, 1x3 Push-ups ( I used to be at 3x8 ) 1x8, 1x6, 1x3 Inverted Ring-Rows ( I used to be at 8/7/5, so a little loss there ) Then post-workout Stretching. One thing I did notice is that about half-way through my workout I felt like I wanted to yack. I had already worked through that phase 2 months ago, so I'm not thrilled that I'm back there. So, here's hoping I can stick with this. Oh, and my goal: Do a free-standing hand-stand by end of summer. Let's do this.

Last week was horrible. I wasn't feeling well and only worked out once last week. Hopefully I'm back on it now. Yesterday's Workout Warmup: Body-weight Lunges - 5,5 Jumping Jacks - 35,35 2 Minutes Jump Rope My cardio still sucks Workout: 5 minutes Belly-to-wall handstand practice. 2 minutes Foot-Supported L-Sit. Shrimp Squats! 8,8,8. I still can't get all the way down Push-ups! 8,8,8 Still working on my ROM Inverted Ring Rows: 8,7,5

It must be something going around. I too was stuck at work late, ended up going out for dinner, and didn't work out at all.

Awesome, as I do a fair amount of jumps in my workout!

Congrats on the 10lb loss.

Today's Workout Warmup: Body-weight Lunges - 5,5 Jumping Jacks - 30,30 2 Minutes Jump Rope My cardio still sucks Workout: 5 minutes Belly-to-wall handstand practice. We're getting there. I'm still not quite 100% vertical, but I can get "up" a whole lot easier now, and can hold it for about 15 seconds at a time 2 minutes Foot-Supported L-Sit. Shrimp Squats! 8,8,8. I still can't get all the way down Push-ups! 8,8,8 Still working on my ROM Inverted Ring Rows: 8,8,4