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It really depends on how much you're wanting to do with kettlebells, which will be your priority improvement wise, and how much activity you're used to. The most neutral times would be MWF mornings or TR, while keeping an eye on the improvement you're wanting and scaling activity accordingly. If you really just want to improve one or the other, immediately before/after yoga will work and save time (priority one first). So long as you're eating enough and getting enough rest, you won't end up over-working yourself, and so long as you pay attention to form, and stop when it suffers, you wont' hurt yourself. I can't be much help narrowing down times without knowing more, but it's basically a play around with it and find a time that works, scaling activity as needed.

Agree on grilled/roasted helping. Also, sautéing and mixing with bacon helps with the taste

Back when I was in 5th grade or so, I was looking in the giant dictionary in the back of English class (can't remember which publisher it was). It had ain't in it, with the definition "not a word." Ended up losing the argument on it being a word, but I did get the teacher to stop saying it wasn't in the dictionary.

Waldo will probably come along with a more detailed explanation, but I'd assume it has to do with the repeated failure that you're supposed to be reaching with a pyramid set. If you just do sets of big numbers, you might hit failure once or twice on last set, instead of 4-5 times on the back half of the pyramid. More failure = more tears = more growth.

Try just "sitting" in the bottom of it to gain balance. When you do that, you can then move to adding weight/jumping to make them harder. Pushups (regular, wide, diamond, clapping, progression to one arm, handstand, etc.), dips (if you don't have a station, just do them on a chair/desk and kick your feet out further to make them harder). Not much else I can think of that works bodyweight wise.

I've signed up for one in Chattanooga on June 27. Even managed to convince two of my friends to go as well.

Yeah, I'm surprised about it as well. It's a new teacher and when the test day was announced I joked about extra credit for dressing up and she went with it. It's only a couple of points, but still worth it. I guess that shows it's always a good idea to spitball stuff even if it's not serious.

I've dressed up as Beakman. I'll get pictures up at some point. As a side note, there's a depressing lack of costumes today at college. Then again, I'm only doing it since I get extra credit on my physics test if I dress up.

I've got an older version of the one you linked. It's stable for everything but explosive pulls, hanging off one side, and rings, suspension trainer at anything but vertical. If you check craigslist, you might be able to find it cheaper. I picked mine up for around $50.

Depends on how far along you are. Steve's got a good article on a progression series for it. You can replace assisted with jumping and trying to hold for a second or two at the top as well if you don't have the equipment for assisted. It's probably better to go for a strict pull up first vs. kipping ones. While kipping makes it easier, there's a greater chance of hurting the shoulder if you haven't built the musculature up to being able to do regular pull ups. At least with higher reps in kipping.

Wait... What? How does that rule even make sense?

Do you lock your legs when doing push-ups too? Only way I can get pressure on my knees is if I shift my weight back and have the balls of my feet on the ground instead of on my toes. So you might have your arms too far forward. I've got my hands close to eachother at roughly chin level, with arms going back, sorta like a collapsed diamond push-up position

We'll really need more information about where you are fitness wise and what goals you have, what equipment you have (pull-up bar, rings, etc.). A good place to start would be the crossfit bodyweight workouts. Another good way to do it would to just combine strength and endurance work. Just do the hardest exercises you can complete 5-6 reps max/set of in the various groups (push/pull/core/legs), then finish off the workout with doing sets of 10+ (up to max) of easier exercises in the groups. In the easier one, I might set up several easier core exercises (flutter kicks, russian twists, etc.) since core's pretty important in bodyweight stuff. Run these two difficulties as separate circuits back to back, and that should be a pretty good general workout.

The same guy that did hundred pushups had a free site called fiftypullups.com. It got rolled into the 7 weeks to fitness program, which requires a free membership. http://www.7weekstofitness.com/ Another method you can use is to just grease the groove, which is just doing 60%-ish of your max multiple times throughout the day.

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REI's got a good source of information on getting started. It's worth taking a look at, especially with things like pack selection, where proper fit and adjustment is near vital. http://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice.html

I'll add links when I get in front of my computer, but I Fight Dragons, Protomen, and Kirby Krackle are all on my playlist. A couple songs by The Leetstreet Boys as well. EDIT: Added the songs. I Fight Dragons: Kirby Krackle: (Good one for the theme of the Rebellion, I think) The Protomen:

If you're waking up naturally after 6 hours, see if you can keep it up without affecting workouts. Nothing says you need 7-8 hours sleep if your body's adapted to less. Could be that since you're working out now, your body's just getting more efficient and more energy and you aren't taxing it enough to need more sleep yet. It's really just one of those things you need to experiment on since everyone's different.

Flexibility stuff. Here's a good resource. http://www.mobilitywod.com/ There's also things like Indian Clubs, yoga, etc. that you can do. It'll strengthen all the small the supporting muscles and can help fix muscle imbalances that cause pain/ limit your range of motion.

(Disclaimer, not a doctor and all that) Shoulders are really complicated. As a general rule, I've heard if you can do exercises without causing more pain, you can continue those. Also, if it continues to be a sharp pain (esp. keeping you from sleeping) for more than a couple days, or if it lasts for several weeks it needs to be seen by a doctor. Most of the treatments short of surgery are the same though, don't do anything that hurts, take NSAIDs, and ice for the first few days to reduce inflammation. Do heat after to help with recovery. If you've got someone to aid in putting it on, taping the shoulder can help keep it from hurting as much during activity.

The waterproof MOABs are my daily shoe (got tired of the stepping in a puddle and having wet feet for the day). Can't remember if I've gotten them soaked on a hiking trip or not, but I can't think it'd be any worse than a regular gym shoe. They'll stay damp for the rest of the day anyways. So long as there's not standing water in there, I've not found wet shoes to be much of a problem as long as you've got good socks. I've also not noticed a difference in breathability with the waterproofing. Only real thing I've noticed is that they're heavier than running shoes, so it might tire you out a bit faster.

I usually try to work it as a pyramid (1-2-3-2-1) with 30-60 second rests to get over a stall. If that doesn't work, or I don't feel like it for some reason, I'll do sets of negatives for a few workouts to see if it helps. Two other methods that seem viable are greasing the groove, doing sets throughout the day, and switching to chinups if you can when the pull-ups fail.

No problem. We'd be a pretty useless community if we didn't help each other out.

Best way I know how is to tuck your legs in and use them to push yourself over. Still requires upper body strength, but your lower body takes a good bit of your weight too . If you're having trouble reaching the ledge on the 10' ones, try mustering a short sprint beforehand to get into a wall run Here's a video that's got them both in:

For stabilization, I'd think a diving weight belt (or any piece of long webbing with a buckle) run through some carabiners running through the side PALS/MOLLE would be sufficient, and the diving belt is wide enough for it to not dig into you too bad. Not sure if the PALS would hold up long term if you tried to use it for load transfer though. Unsure of how well it lines up with the GoRuck, but I just tried it on the ILBE assault pack (Gen 2, I think) that I use as my daypack when hiking. It's not a replacement for the built in one, but I can do handstand pushups without it going anywhere and is relatively comfortable.