How to Workout at your local park
This is a guest post by Christian (yes the first guest post on LaurensFitness), aka Young Athlete, you’ll see him often commenting around LaurensFitness and Stronglifts. Christian competes in hockey, football and track. He trains three times per week for strength, and twice a week for speed and conditioning. He asked to write this guest post to share his experiences and give you guys a simple workout you can do at your local park, and follow on from my last article, on how to workout without a gym. I like it and I am sure you will love it. Enjoy!
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No Equipment? No Excuses: 20 Exercises You Can Do At Home
- No gym,
- No weights,
- No equipment.
Can a decent workout be done? Yes
Is it ideal? No
There is always a time when you can’t get to the gym, or don’t have the hour or two to get there do the workout and get home. If you haven’t set your own home gym up, there is still a lot you can do. You won’t get you the gains that you will get from going to the gym, lifting weights and completing your full program, but they certainly aren’t easy, and will at least help you maintain your work, and take no time at all…which means no excuses.
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Away
I’m out of here for the next 5 days, I have a tournament in Adelaide. I’ll answer all emails and comments when I’m back early next week…Keep them coming!
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Muscle Imbalances
Muscle imbalances affect and cause a lot of postural problems and injuries. I just wanted to talk generally about them today as a lot of people left this in my comment section and trying to go through individual muscle imbalances in one post is madness. Remember nearly every injury I talk about results from some sort of muscle imbalance problem, so we will talk more in detail about them as I get more posts up!
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Prone Hold Variations For Everyone
The prone hold is a great exercise because it promotes core stability, works your abs, and saves your back. There is no spinal flexion involved and thus makes it a great exercise for people suffering from back issues. I have included a few variations in this video. You can also put your feet or your arms up on a swiss ball, but if I had of got that out my dog would have gone nuts. There are some form problems in this video but I just wanted to show you the variations, they mainly arise from not being ready for the next variation.
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What Do You Want
Ok guys, I will have some posts up very soon for you, but I wanted to get your feel on things. In this post I am simply asking you to tell me what you want to know about. The reason I write this blog is for you guys to learn, so what do you want? Leave some questions in the comment section under this post that you would like me to answer, or some topics you want me to cover. Thats the easiest way for me to give you what you want. If there is nothing there I’ll just continue writing, I have a fair few chunk of things I still want to cover.
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Update
I didn’t want to write anything personal on this blog and I certainly didn’t want to make excuses for my lack of posts, but I’m about to do both. I should have written this a while ago, and I only just realised it’s actually been 6 weeks since I posted, as I have been able to occasionally keep up with comments it didn’t seem so long.
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Glute Activation 101
Something different today, a video post. No time to write and this was faster. Excuse my extreme Aussie accent that I didn’t realise I had until I heard myself. Quality isn’t there sometimes but I think you get the drift. Enjoy. Feedback would be nice…more or less video posts?
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Pelvic Tilts: Get Them Right
The movement and consequent function of the pelvis plays a big role in your ability to have correct posture when exercising and performing every day activities. Getting your pelvis moving correctly will have a big influence over your ability to lift, your injury risk, your health, and the way you look. Correct pelvic posture is important, make sure you get yours right.
The Tilts
The two movements we are concerned with are the Anterior Tilt, and the Posterior Tilt. With muscles imbalances the pelvis will tilt into either one of these directions.
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Eccentric: Hammer Your Hamstrings
Hamstrings can become the forgotten muscle. They aren’t the sexiest muscle and in a lot of programs they don’t get enough devotion. So, how do we get more bang for our buck and hit those annoying hamstrings harder? With eccentric exercises of course.
What Is Eccentric Exercise?
There are two types of muscle contractions.
- Concentric contraction occurs when the muscle is shortening.
- Eccentric contraction occurs when the muscle is lengthening.
The best way to picture this is doing a bicep curl. When you bring the weight up, you are performing a concentric contraction, when you lower the weight; your biceps are working eccentrically to lower the weight with control.
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Tight Hips?
Long term pain from shortened hip muscles can mean permanent hip, knee and lowback damage. Target the muscles involved with specific Stretch Away Pain exercises to reduce and eliminate hip pain. Muscle pain is due to muscle shortening.
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