I'm a lifelong martial artist and also a huge fan of MMA.
I run the business http://www.VahvaFitness.com and I think this could be interesting for you to see, since Conor McGregor has impressively spread the movement knowledge with his own training.
Animal walks and others movement drills are a great way to build strength, improve body awareness, coordination and conditioning.
I can tell by the still images alone that I'm not build for these things haha. I have a hard as fk time just doing mountain climbers since my legs don't really fit onto my chest when my hips are that low.
Yeah Conor's general ideas interest me. It's the different between being a fighter and a martial artist. Conor maintains that kind of idea that old school martial artists have. I prefer martial arts to fighting in the first place as much as I love both.
People are starting to realize the benefits of duck walking...hahaha! Roflz...that was awesome. Each of these animals have their own specialties. It's pretty neat, but it has been adopted by Far East methodologies specifically in Kung Fu.
My thanks to the OP. This stuff (movement and body weight exercise) has my full attention at the moment and I have enjoyed exploring your website all morning. I applaud your efforts and wish you all the best with your business. I saw a ton of good info and took advantage of the free muscle up download. I will be a regular visitor. I only wish I could afford more involvement but your price for online coaching is not in my budget.
I also want to say thanks to the reptile for introducing me to Ido Portal. I was ready for a change up in training and he really sparked my interest. Ido is pretty. He moves beautifully. I can't deny that. But I have yet to see any instructional video of his that could be truly useful to an uncoordinated old man like me. And his interviews make me cringe. He comes across as an obnoxious, pouting guru spouting mystic bullshit. “specialists are douche bags”. “I refuse to train with vegans”. “don't walk behind me, walk beside me” :confused02:…?... “i am not a messiah”. That one is my favorite. What kind of egotistical asshole feels the need to tell an interviewer that “i am not a messiah”?? (he doesn't seem like a coach either)
Carl Paoli, on the other hand, seems like a natural coach who comes across as just one of the guys who loves to move and has a talent for teaching. He has over a 100 instructional videos that break advanced moves down to many small progressions from a starting point that even I can do. For example, Ido talks about his squat philosophy while he does advanced squats to dramatic music and calls it basic. Carl breaks down the mechanics and applications of the movement and explains the purpose behind each progression. He starts with a move called “the old man squat”.:hug:
I enjoy Ido's videos for inspiration but I watch Carl's videos for useful instruction. Ido quips that most people don't have the operators manual for their bodies... Carl wrote it. His book, FREE+STYLE: MAXIMIZE SPORT AND LIFE PERFORMANCE WITH 4 BASIC MOVEMENTS. should be in every school and P.E. Class in America. And check out his youtube channel “freestyle connection” for step by step progressions to do the crazy stuff Ido does.
My thanks to the OP. This stuff (movement and body weight exercise) has my full attention at the moment and I have enjoyed exploring your website all morning. I applaud your efforts and wish you all the best with your business. I saw a ton of good info and took advantage of the free muscle up download. I will be a regular visitor. I only wish I could afford more involvement but your price for online coaching is not in my budget.
I also want to say thanks to the reptile for introducing me to Ido Portal. I was ready for a change up in training and he really sparked my interest. Ido is pretty. He moves beautifully. I can't deny that. But I have yet to see any instructional video of his that could be truly useful to an uncoordinated old man like me. And his interviews make me cringe. He comes across as an obnoxious, pouting guru spouting mystic bullshit. “specialists are douche bags”. “I refuse to train with vegans”. “don't walk behind me, walk beside me” :confused02:…?... “i am not a messiah”. That one is my favorite. What kind of egotistical asshole feels the need to tell an interviewer that “i am not a messiah”?? (he doesn't seem like a coach either)
Carl Paoli, on the other hand, seems like a natural coach who comes across as just one of the guys who loves to move and has a talent for teaching. He has over a 100 instructional videos that break advanced moves down to many small progressions from a starting point that even I can do. For example, Ido talks about his squat philosophy while he does advanced squats to dramatic music and calls it basic. Carl breaks down the mechanics and applications of the movement and explains the purpose behind each progression. He starts with a move called “the old man squat”.:hug:
I enjoy Ido's videos for inspiration but I watch Carl's videos for useful instruction. Ido quips that most people don't have the operators manual for their bodies... Carl wrote it. His book, FREE+STYLE: MAXIMIZE SPORT AND LIFE PERFORMANCE WITH 4 BASIC MOVEMENTS. should be in every school and P.E. Class in America. And check out his youtube channel “freestyle connection” for step by step progressions to do the crazy stuff Ido does.
Great post. I agree Ido Portal is a guru: he talks like a guru, looks like a guru and acts like a guru. But there are many people who are just looking for someone to follow in their spiritual journey.
Ido Portal is one of the best movers right now, but I will soon catch up(he is 10 years ahead of me as a human).
Carl Paoli is great, he is an ex-gymnast, but knows how to teach. Most athletes aren't necessarily good teachers.
By the way, we just recently uploaded a Conor McGregor inspired workout. It has advanced exercises mostly, but we will soon bring the beginner variations in the near future.
Are you using Conor McGregor as like a name to get views, or is it ACTUALLY Conor McGregor inspired? It's be crazy if McGregor turns into Ronda Rousey for men and gets everyone training original shit in the gym.
All of these exercises has been done by Conor McGregor:
- Muscle ups and abs work.
- Lizard walks
Conor McGregor hasn't done these exercises just once, but I remember seeing McGregor doing them many times during the past 1-2 years. @oldfan we are actually Finnish(Estonia language is very close to Finnish though), the word means "strong" in English.
We consider ourselves global citizens and rather do business internationally - but we still respect our roots.
Didn't know Holly Holm was such a strong athlete raise01:
I worked on squats this morning. I'm making progress with my muscle ups and hand stands but the pistol squat still feels like an impossible magic trick.
I wasn't meaning that in a negative way at all, sorry if it seemed like it. These guys could have been doing this for like 10 years and now that Conor's doing it people are taking notice, so to get themselves noticed a bit they could have just used his name. If Conor is ACTUALLY inspiring people to try out new techniques and new forms of movement I think that's cool as fk. Rousey has managed to get a lot of girls off their arse and in the gym so if Conor's inspiring people to approach training in a new direction that's brilliant, but these guys could have been doing this long before Conor came on the scene so that's why I was asking.
@Eerowest please keep posting your new videos here they are great. I have been doing your handstand progression workouts and I can really feel it. I especially liked the upward rotation exercises. I never felt that burn before. and your handstand progressions have worked better for me than Carl Paoli's. raise01:
I think you have more to teach the average person than Guru Portal and I think it would be awesome if you were a regular here. :hug:
We just recently uploaded - the beginner progressions should be approachable by any reasonably fit person.
Also, probably one of the biggest achievement to date was getting the personal record +25kg(55lbs) string ring muscle up. That's something almost no one is capable of doing so I feel very good about it.
I reckon I'd need to be lifted into handstand stance and then I'd be alright haha. I tried it out a while ago, but I was also drunk and on concrete. Another little scar to the collection :laugh:
As pretty much a beginner to everything I'll keep an eye on all of your videos.
I'll give it a shot but it's gonna be fking HELL for me to ever get that done haha. I find regular push ups a bollocks.
You remind me of my sensei. "I'm an old man, surely you'd do better than me". I'm always like "Aye, the older you are, the more years you've been working at this shit" haha.
I'll give it a shot though and let you know my progress. Might post it in here since OP's basically the motivation for it haha. @oldfan
EDIT: How does he make the damn starting position look so easy? haha. I'll try and get up to the gym early before training tonight so I can give this a try on the mats. I'm just under 210lbs so even if I was in shape this would probably be fking hard haha.
I can't get both feet to leave the floor for more than half a second. Basically just 15 stone coming down on my head straight away. I reckon it might be a lack of core muscles so instead of keeping my base through the abdominals, I'm just basically trying to balance on my head. My hands are barely coming into it since all the weight's coming down central.
I'll keep trying it. Pretty much if you were to ask me what the lease likely thing for me to be able to do could ever be, it'd be hand stand push ups :laugh:
EDIT: I'll give the second video a try more cause it seems to be slightly more my speed. I'll fire out some of the pike ones to start off with which I know aren't too bad cause we do them in training anyways. Leg supported looks easy enough but I bet that shit's like doing atomic push ups off a yoga ball where you give absolutely no respect to the core muscles keeping your posture in place into the ball. We'll see.
I feel like a liar now. The last 2 days that I've tried I can't even do 1 muscle up. Ronda Rousey shouldn't feel too bad, @Eerowest is probably the only man on the forum as strong as Holly Holm. I think I know what my problem is, I love doing this stuff too much. I try to do the handstand stuff every day. My bad shoulder is getting weaker, it can't take pushing and pulling work on the same day on consecutive days.
First rule for oldman training: if it hurts do something different. So, this week I'm focusing on improving my form running and squatting. I'm still learning the chi running style and I'm concentrating on breathing through my nose. As soon as I start mouth breathing I slow down and run Tim Conway style until I can close my mouth.
You can learn movement from different people
Overall I'm trying to do with my exercise and fitness what I did with my food. SIMPLIFY. Eliminate products and get back to the simple basics while trying to increase my understanding of the simple basics. Why is what's good, good? Why do I exercise? I think the simplified bottom line is that I want to move better. Stronger. So, I've simplified my strength training to push ups, pull ups and squats. The basics. I've done all of those movements for many years but now I'm going to try to learn to do them better. In hope of someday doing them perfectly.
For cardio I run and beat up my heavy bag. Simple. Fight or flight. That's what cardio is for.
Then there's burpees. I start every morning with 100 burpees. .Burpees are both. Hell they're more than both. Burpees are strength training, stamina, endurance, balance, coordination, flexibility...burpee is complete. burpee is my religion. Burpees represent the core reason we exercise, the very meaning of life itself. Picking yourself up off the ground in the strongest most efficient way possible. Again and again no matter how many times you need to. ….
Out of the entire quote I only got that portion. Good lord. I hate burpees so bad I'd like to do a running side kick to that persons' head who invented it. Seriously.
Yeah burpees are one of my least favourite. I'm sitting here thinking "MAYBE I could do 100" and this dude's doing them every single day haha.
Started doing some weights after going on my walk (urgh, training for weight loss sucks :laugh I'm working on stretching for flexibility (right leg's been jamming up with I throw left high kicks) and then doing some weights. Upped my walking to a decent enough speed and am doing like 7 miles a day now...and still I lose fking no weight. Grrrr. @oldfan, basically I'm saying I forgot to do the tripod haha. I'll throw a few more in but really, damn that's hard for me haha. I might actually replace weights and hit cardio more. Try and take a leaf out of your book and start some burpee / mountain climbers / squats kind of sets. Need to hang my punch bag up again in this new house. Nightmare having to hang it outsidde cause I need to keep having it up and down. I miss my gym shed
Like I said Burpees are the essence of life. They suck. No matter how strong and fit you are they will still suck. It is the one single most complete exercise there is, anyone interested in human movement should start by studying the burpee. Anyone interested in being fit should start by doing burpees. Get on the ground. Get up. So simple but if you don't do it right it can be twice as hard. What more is there in life?
BTW I do sets of 20. I can't do 100 nonstop yet but soon. I do 100 every morning first thing as I watch the news at 5am
Ironically I literally was just saying that to the sensei before I left class a few hours ago. I even cited Diego Brandao looking a bit tired before the McGregor fight cause he fired some out.
Do you do the full thing? The push up / jump part of it? I've saw some people do literally down to plank, jump up, down to plank etc. so I dunno if there's an actual system to it.
I'll pick up that challenge over headstand haha. I bet half the UFC fighters could never do handstand push ups :laugh: 100 burpees a day....that's one of those that sounds a lot more doable than it actually is haha.
@oldfan, would you believe I talked about pistol squats in the same class? Haha.
One thing I saw in a video is something I didn't really take into account before and that was keeping the core so strong when you do your sprawl. I usually would probably let my back sink into it a bit and would lose a lot of that hit (it would hit more a lot more cardio wise than broken down muscle wise, at least straight off the bat).
So you'd do them really slow and get the full benefit of every moment? I struggle with the frog jump back in cause I've still got a little bit of those mental breadcrumbs left around from when I injured my knee. Plus when I jump in I find it really hard to stay low and have my knees on my chest (mountain climbers are a bitch). My knees tend to ride out into more of a butterfly position (maybe just a curse of flexible hips) so I'm not sure if that's just another way to do it or if I'm losing some of that hit.
Not that I really need help on the technique right this second cause I'm doing this for cardio and 20 of them is defo a solid hit, but I suppose if you're going to do something, you may as well do it right.
I'm still resting my bad shoulder. I'm not sure which aggravates it more the pushing or the pulling but I have to ice it before bedtime or no sleep for me.
I ran a 7:30 mile yesterday. I know that's not impressive to most people. It's not even particularly fast for my age....but for someone who smoked nearly 1/2 million Marlboros, that might be a ****ing world record. :thumb02:
Think that's bad? When I did my 18 mile walk thing and my whatever the leg joining to the pelvis is called gave out at about 14 miles and I had to limp for 4, I sat on a wall waiting for my lift. Jaunting past me was lots of smiling pensioners with no problems with the walk what so ever. My body collapses before we even got half way. I was just sitting to myself saying "It's okay Clyde, they cant do a spinning side kick, we're still good....we're still good".
It's been more than a month since I stopped using weights and machines and started doing only body weight exercises.
it's been about 2 weeks since I stopped doing anything except running and burpees to rest my shoulder
Something surprising is happening. I look and feel stronger than ever. 2 different people commented on it this weekend. It has to be the burpees. My theory is that I'm working a lot of smaller secondary muscles that are waking up and taking notice. What ever it is I like it. I feel good.
Hey @ClydebankBlitz I did my 100 burpees this morning in 11:04 what's your best time?
The Spartan website says to be "SPARTAN FIT" a man my age should be able to do 75 in 5:00
@oldfan not sure. Haven't timed myself before. Anytime I do them I'll be tired quick enough so form would go flying out the window so I could probably do them in under 11 minutes but you'd be doing them with a lot more benefit than me so it's irrelevant.
I started doing weights again a few days ago. It's cool for you to be off weight training but you'd probably already got a lot of the strength there already. Little things for me like holding my leg out straight (like in a pistol squat) is really hard. Sure my legs massive but it's just that my quad isn't developed enough for it. From pretty much now on I'll be trying to walk about 5 miles every day then doing some weights after it. If I can get a routine of this going, I'll then add in some things like push ups, sit ups, squats, burpees etc. Can't hit the bag until winter ends since it needs to be outside and is raining 24/7.
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