So, I built a Caveman gym with my pocket Knife today.
I was hiking in the local woods, check'n out the Cicada's, when I decided to sit on a log and rest a bit. Now, this log happens to be in a secluded portion of our local forest preserve, and also where I like to do stance work and Qi Gong and stuff like that in the mornings.
As I was sitt'n there, I saw a long vine, and thought it would make a good rope to tie a fallen tree limb (laying next to me) between two trees to make a pull up bar. So, I took my pocket knife, cut down the vine and grabbed the branch and tied it to a tree limb. It made a great pull up bar. I can do all variants of pull ups, chin ups military pullups etc...
So, with my new pull up bar in place I started working out. I did pull ups, followed by Push ups, and then went into the grass and did ab work and lower back exercises. This was followed by doing the same sequence again 2 more times with the same reps, and then 3 more after that with like 6-8 reps each ('Cause I'm a wuss and couldn't do any more by that point)
The grass is like 4-5 feet high right there, so I started walking outward in a spiral slowly matting it down. I a few minutes I had a nice flat carpet of layed down grass that was roughly 8-9 feet in diameter. I swear to God, it looks like a min Crop circle because of the way I matted it down in a spiral pattern and all.
After I was done I stretched for some time and started thinking about what else I could do with vines. So, I got up and started searching for good sized rocks and more vine. Once I assembled the materials, I wrapped the rocks with the vine nice and tight and wove a nice handle into the work and made several sizes of home made Kettelbells.
Now, I don't know much about Kettelbell work, but i have see Youtube vids of some basics, so I started working out with my primitive weights. All I can say is WOW, when I was done I felt like my arms were going to fall off!
So I say on my favorite log until I recovered and was just sort of spacing out and looking around and that is when I saw it...a HUGE Vine going way up into the tree tops!! This thing was a thick as those big climbing ropes you see in Gymnastics clubs!!!
Well, I couldn't leave THAT challenge unexplored, so I went over to it and tested my weight on it. Low and behold it held me without even batt'n an eyelash!!...so I climbed it 3 sets of 3 times!! I went all the way up about the hieght of the climbing rope at my daughter's old gym (Ceiling hight of an industrial building)
I was really tired by this time, and quite spent so I went back to the log and layed down...only to think I could probably do some mean one arm bench presses with the heaviest rock (About 50 pounds I guessing). So, with very little strength left in my arms from all the other stuff, I layed on the log and one arm benched the bigest Kettlerock about 6 times each arm. I did 2 sets of that, and one more set of 3 reps because I just couldn't lift my arms any more.
Needless to say, after I was wiped out form all that, it was still a rough hike back to the car as I had originally gone off trail to scramble up hills, climb over fallen trees, and play balance beam on others. Since I didn't know any other way back to the main trails, I had to go that route...let me tell you, as dead as I was I didn't think I could do it. I have never been so happy to see a man made trail in my LIFE!!
All in all, I think I had the best, funnest workout I can ever remember today!! I am sure I will be crying how sore I am tomorrow!!
I feel sorry for all those who are stuck with health club memberships and forced to use treadmills HA Ha Ha Ha HAAaAAAAA!!
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