Training BLOG

[joedoe]

Sorry, I can't do them then - I can't bring myself to cut meat out of my diet

Seriously, how slowly should they be done, like 10 secs per rep or faster?

[Serpent]

Yeah, CSN is right about the squats. The push up is like this:

Start with your hands and feet double shoulder width apart and your arse up in the air, like an inverted V. Then bend the arms and lower your head between your hands and then kinda surf forward and extend up till your arms are straight...

Wait a minute...

Here you go.

[Serpent]

With regard to that link above, I do the pushups slightly different cos I go back the way I went forward and I find it works the muscles more, rather than the return as described there. Give them a go, cos they rule!

[Chang Style Novice]

As long as you don't just relax and fall on the downward part of the squat, that's what's important. Slow enough to avoid that is plenty slow. 10 seconds per rep is positively glacial.

[joedoe]

OK - I see what you mean. We used to call those tiger push ups - dunno why

So how fast do you actually do each squat? Is it a quick motion, or is it done slowly?

[Serpent]

I think the pushups are also sometimes called dive bombers. The squat is done relatively quick, but you have to avoid the bounce. Wait a bit and I'll show you them both, mate.

[Chang Style Novice]

It looks to me like the pushups y'all are talking about are the same as the yoga transition from downward facing dog to cobra (if my long dormant yoga knowledge isn't too rusty.)

[Serpent]

Originally posted by Chang Style Novice
It looks to me like the pushups y'all are talking about are the same as the yoga transition from downward facing dog to cobra (if my long dormant yoga knowledge isn't too rusty.)

Yeah, it's almost exactly that. It's also exactly the same as the middle portion of the Salute To The Sun asana.

[Stranger]

Tiger Push-Ups, Hindu Push-Ups, and Divebomber Push-Ups are three different exercises.

[joedoe]

Originally posted by Serpent
I think the pushups are also sometimes called dive bombers. The squat is done relatively quick, but you have to avoid the bounce. Wait a bit and I'll show you them both, mate.

No worries. Looking forward to it.

[Serpent]

Originally posted by Stranger
Tiger Push-Ups, Hindu Push-Ups, and Divebomber Push-Ups are three different exercises.

I only really know what I do and I call them Hindu's, but they're not quite like the link I provided.

Can you descibe the differences between the three and what their pros and cons are?

[Stranger]

Hindu Push-ups:
(The set-up for proper start position)Start in basic push up position / separate legs wide / walk back your hands until your arse is in the air and you feel the stretch in your hamstrings

(The movement)Swoop down and forward directing your chin, then chest, then abdomen, then groin towards the floor / You should then be well forward and looking up towards the ceiling / rock directly back to starting position / DO NOT RETURN THROUGH SAME PATH AS FORWARD MOVEMENT




Divebomber Push-ups:
(The set up for proper start position) Same as in Hindu Push-up

(The movement)Swoop forward as in Hindu Push-Ups / Return back along same path as forward motion




Tiger Push-Ups:
(The set up for proper start position) Heels against a wall / bend at waist sharply until hands are on the ground- you should have your arse way in the air and be in an acute upside down v-angle / slowly rotate both hands inward so that the fingers of one hand point towards the fingerson the other hand- like this E 3

(The movement) bend at elbows and dip straight down / return to start position along the same path

[Serpent]

Cool, thanks for that. So what I'm doing are actually divebombers by your definitions.

(E 3. You have hands like the Simpsons? )

[Stranger]

D'oh!

[SevenStar]

Originally posted by Suntzu
*SMH* he's good and all… but c'mon… he cant compare to folks like Black Thought… Talib… Mos… GZA… but I'll give it to him… out of all the cats that get airplay… Em kills 'em…

GA has my schedule beat… by Sunday I cant even move…

eh, I dunno... the more I listen to Talib, the less he seems to impress me. The others are pretty tight though. two more I couldn't leave off that list are ras kass and mad skillz (before he started calling himself "skillz" - I dunno why he dropped the mad part.)