Beckerhead "Spartan" Fitness Challenge GAW Round 2 is Live!

Those knives look sweet so far!

TBL said:
myb: +3.5 = 16.5
bsp: 15 - decided to take a break today and spent my workout time stretching. hamstrings really tight.
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Do you do anything special for stretching hamstrings? Mine are always tight and it's annoying.

I think I might have to repeat some days in week 1 column 1 for pushups. I can't make it through day 3 yet haha!
Anywho - MYB: +2+3.5+2 = 7.5. Just got my fitbit tonight! I'm very excited to track my heartrate during exersise and stuff.
 
Yoga is good stuff. There are quite a few good hamstring stretches. I like to do ballistic stretching for my hamstrings too.
 
crimsonfalcon07 said:
Yoga is good stuff. There are quite a few good hamstring stretches. I like to do ballistic stretching for my hamstrings too.
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I kinda...forgot to stretch all summer, doing heavy deads, squats and c&p's with my big kettlebell. And hill sprints...really paying for it now. I've started doing two days a week of just stretches (since my knee got a bit buggered doing hill sprints on a crowned road-don't do this at home!) been out straight so i couldn't jump in on this, but very cool thread.
 
TBL said:
myb: +2.5 = 19
bsp: +3 = 18
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myb +2 = 21
bsp: +2 = 20 - quick leg workout - all burny now wee!

Cap,

The two stretches I do for hamstrings are pretty much the same, just one standing and one sitting. I just bend down and touch my toes and hold for 10-15 sec, release for 30sec,then do it as many times as needed until I can get a full grip on my feet (or to the end of your range of motion). When I started I couldn't even touch my ankles lol, that turned on the lightbulb that I needed to incorporate more stretching in my routine. I posted a video on this thread near the beginning of a woman doing a full body stretch routine, I try to do it every other day. If I really feel bad or tight, I'll do it a few times a day. After a workout, after I get home from work, and before bed. I normally see an improvement the following day.

I've tried ballistic stretching too (before I was ready to do so lol). I find its great for after workouts, but not if you're cold... then its just ouch (for me ymmv everybody's bodies are different). That was a fun lesson to learn :thumbdn:
 
Yeah, you gotta do a little warmup, maybe 5 minutes. I do shadowboxing, but you can do jumping jacks, run lunges, etc, to get the muscles going. Then you do your ballistic stretching. Nothing better than yoga though. Lots of videos online, and it's something the significant other will probably be willing to do with you. Best part is, you feel GREAT afterwards.
 
So, round 2 rules. 200 points to be earned through pushups/situps, or 200 points through BSP. 100 points through MYB. I'm gonna allow you to substitute MYB points for doing some yoga, because I think it will do y'all a ton of good. Lots of great videos on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=yoga). My wife really likes yoga with Adriene. I'm a fan of the P90X Yoga X workout, if you have that, or can acquire it. I'll call it 1 MYB point per 12 minutes of yoga. For those of you who are doing weight loss challenges for yourself, we'll count that too, by percentage of goal achieved. Jits and other martial arts will count towards MYB as well, on a similar rate, because it's good cardio. Keep posting here. If you don't have a starting video from the previous round, record one for this one if you're going for pushups/situps. I'll throw down pullups in there too for those who want to try that. Pullups milestone is 25, IIRC. Fast up slow down counts double. Plyometric switch grip pullups count double. Muscle ups count triple. If you can't do pullups yet, get an elastic workout band with a door wedge and use that. Works quite well.
 
crimsonfalcon07 said:
So, round 2 rules. 200 points to be earned through pushups/situps, or 200 points through BSP. 100 points through MYB. I'm gonna allow you to substitute MYB points for doing some yoga, because I think it will do y'all a ton of good. Lots of great videos on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=yoga). My wife really likes yoga with Adriene. I'm a fan of the P90X Yoga X workout, if you have that, or can acquire it. I'll call it 1 MYB point per 12 minutes of yoga. For those of you who are doing weight loss challenges for yourself, we'll count that too, by percentage of goal achieved. Jits and other martial arts will count towards MYB as well, on a similar rate, because it's good cardio. Keep posting here. If you don't have a starting video from the previous round, record one for this one if you're going for pushups/situps. I'll throw down pullups in there too for those who want to try that. Pullups milestone is 25, IIRC. Fast up slow down counts double. Plyometric switch grip pullups count double. Muscle ups count triple. If you can't do pullups yet, get an elastic workout band with a door wedge and use that. Works quite well.
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Yay! My friend just asked me a couple days ago about potentially doing Yoga with Adrienne with her a couple times a week.

Can my final video be my starting one for round 2 of pushups?

Weight loss is also on my list... But I'm really, really slow at that so not sure about that one.

TBL said:
myb +2 = 21
bsp: +2 = 20 - quick leg workout - all burny now wee!

Cap,

The two stretches I do for hamstrings are pretty much the same, just one standing and one sitting. I just bend down and touch my toes and hold for 10-15 sec, release for 30sec,then do it as many times as needed until I can get a full grip on my feet (or to the end of your range of motion). When I started I couldn't even touch my ankles lol, that turned on the lightbulb that I needed to incorporate more stretching in my routine. I posted a video on this thread near the beginning of a woman doing a full body stretch routine, I try to do it every other day. If I really feel bad or tight, I'll do it a few times a day. After a workout, after I get home from work, and before bed. I normally see an improvement the following day.

I've tried ballistic stretching too (before I was ready to do so lol). I find its great for after workouts, but not if you're cold... then its just ouch (for me ymmv everybody's bodies are different). That was a fun lesson to learn :thumbdn:
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I did do that video a couple times, I'll have to do that or yoga more. I gotta be able to grab my feet again. I can brush my toes but that's it.


crimsonfalcon07 said:
Yeah, you gotta do a little warmup, maybe 5 minutes. I do shadowboxing, but you can do jumping jacks, run lunges, etc, to get the muscles going. Then you do your ballistic stretching. Nothing better than yoga though. Lots of videos online, and it's something the significant other will probably be willing to do with you. Best part is, you feel GREAT afterwards.
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I'll research ballistic stretching. Yoga is definitely something I enjoy.
 
crimsonfalcon07 said:
Retroactively adding is fine.
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Sweet!

Qeth said:
10.775 BSP to date.
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Studio's been busy with new folk, so my training's been a bit stunted this first week.

45 minutes total sparring this week.

3.75 MYB for the day.

Yesterday's quick squat powerlift:

15 L = 0.075
15 H = 0.3
0.375 BSP for the day.

11.15 BSP to date.
3.75 MYB to date (yay first MYB in... 3 years? when did we originally start the MYB?)
 
TBL said:
myb +2 = 21
bsp: +2 = 20
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myb: +1 = 22
bsp: 20

Went to visit my parents this afternoon and made it a rest day - we ended up walking around the lake behind their house. Stopped to feed the ducks the kids loved it:thumbup: back at it again tomorrow!
 
TBL said:
myb: +1 = 22
bsp: 20
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myb: +2 = 24
bsp: +3 = 23 push up day, didn't get as many as I wanted to today. My children tried to sabotage my workout this morning. I went to start off with a max test...then looked up to find the boys making faces in the video recording... and before they started doing that... they stopped the recording so that went out the window lol. Then the youngest decided to fill his diaper literally inches from my face as I was doing a set of pushups lol ... seriously.. not a great morning, but I still managed to get it finished and then some lol.

Mike, If I can do pushups while kids are sh**ting in my face, you can do anything to chase that wagon and get back on!

Maybe a yoga video?
 
Got out for a 4.1 mile walk last night. Rain stopped and it was a ridiculous 52°F. Shorts in January, & I didn't even need to get the winter shorts. I'm gonna try and catch that wagon.....
MYB: 4.1
 
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