EARN YOUR GRAVY

Left Overs

Whats up guys,

Thanksgiving was this past Thursday and Uncle Paulie and I woke up and banged out a nice little training session that morning.  We have some video to show you how we get down at the "Strength Shack".

Unfortunately I lost the video of my awesome introduction and battling tires.  I will get another version of battling tires up for you next go around.

Training hard on holidays like this is an awesome thing to do if you can make it happen.  Not only do you start the festivities in a calorie deficit which will not last long, but you will be feeding your muscles all day long.  It may not be the best food for you but to not indulge on Thanksgiving is un American.

Exercise 1

Dynamic Jumps over a bench 8 sets x 2 reps

The only rest was waiting for Uncle Paulie to finish his last rep than I was right on the bench for my set.

If you know of a movement more explosive than jumping please let me know because these do the trick.  These also really get the blood flowing and CNS primed for some heavier activities.

Exercise 2

Sand Bag Clean & Press 1 set x 5 reps 2 sets x 4reps

We took about 2 minutes between sets on this one

This is an awesome full body movement and the awkwardness of the sand bag makes it even tougher.  If you do not train with sand bags give it a try you can put them together for about 30 bucks, and the possiblities are only limited to your imagination.

Exercis 3

Battling Tires

3 sets 10 pushes back and forth followed by 6 flips back and forth.

I really messed up bad here with the video camera, somehow I figured out how to only tape our rest.  So I will show you one of Uncle Paulie bent over exhausted.

To perform these we stood the tire upright and push as hard as you can back and forth for 10 reps than we let the tire hit the ground and flipped it back and forth for 6 reps.  You can see how it went by the looks of Paul during our rest period.

Exercis 4

Tire Flips to Somersault to Short Sprint

4 rounds total

I got this idea in a post from Joe Defranco on football conditioning, we added the somersault in for a little more flavor.  These movements simulate an average football play very well.  Do a few rounds of these with a heavy tire and tell me how you feel.

That was the first time we did those so in the future look for some cool additions to the movements.

So there you have it, that is what we did to earn our gravy this year.  And it tasted damn good.