Crazy workouts

We had some reply issues and a few of you were quick on the draw to email me. So I will add them in now as comments from me, but with each persons name and email and their comments as received.

my craziest workout is an one from back in the olden days of the 80s. Hanging from a pullup bar by bootstraps (yep! hanging upside down)… and doing crunches!!!

Abby Campbell
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I struggle with eating (while I know a lot, I need some structure/plan or I just don’t do well). So, here’s hoping you pick me!

The craziest exercise thing I’ve probably done was where I was working on my lower body. I called it a “lunge” day. And I did walking lunges to get whereever I wanted to go. The whole day. Granted, it was my day off from the office. But my neighbors thought I had lost my mind.

I followed it by a 9 mile hike the next day.

Crazy. But my glutes were TONED!

Wade…my craziest workout:

A couple of my friends and I do this at least once a month.

Go out into the park and pad up and spar.

In between rounds we do sets of pushups, jump squats and sit ups.

we also jump up bleachers, bear crawl from home plate back around with either push ups, mt climbers, body builders or what ever at each base.

we finish off with a “all out” beat down on heavy pads, usually someone has to puke.

crazy enough for you.

w

Wade J. Black, M.B.A.

it’s called a kneeling squat or kneeling explosive jump. Basically you kneel down with a barbell on your back and then you explode up into a standing position. It’s crazy hard, and you get winded real quick. Helps with that explosiveness

looks like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCsfxpQ8C1M&feature=related

in karate training: one thousand sumo kicks. (sideways) it starts hurting after one hundred and then you use mentality and technique to do the other 900.

Grid sprints on Chessell Beach in Dorset, England. Deadly

The beach is about 5 miles long and is made up of high bank of small pebbles which move constantly as you even walk. Very hard on the legs.

Hi,

It’s not crazy but people found it weird. xD The normal warm-ups (star jumps, crunches, handstands, etc) in water for like 30 mins…WAYY harder than it sounds…

Mari

Straddle a bench with dumbell in either hand hanging by side, squat till butt touches bench and back up, curl dumbells one rep and squat and back up,shrug dumbells 5 reps squat and back up, lift dumbells to shoulders squat and back up, press dumbells overhead squat and back up, lower dumbells to shoulders squat and back up, lower dumbells to sides and that is one rep, cant seem to count reps on this so do it for 4 minutes and aim to increase

Nice contributions so far….Here in Poland, i work on my legs twice a week with my buddies….ordinarily, working on the legs is crazy enough, but we do this…..2 warm up sets and 8 heavy working sets of squats with lunges in between as a superset….after this, we are almost at a point of collapsing…..after one of these days, i fell down in the public while going down the stairs with people rushing to my aid….

They were hanging upside down (vertical) with gravity boots hooked onto a high bar (bootstraps is what I guess they called them) doing inverted abdominal exercises (crunches and oblique twists). This exercise was thought to get a more defined six-pack. LOL! But, it was a risky exercise that made all the blood rush to your head and make your eyeballs feel like that would pop out! LOL! Now we know that one can still do those vertical ab crunches but still never uncover a six pack if there is still fat covering them. {This was back in the early 80s when Rachel McLish and Arnold Schwartznegger modeled it.}

my craziest workout ever is “squats and milk”: it’s always tough and every day is another challenge cause you have to add 2.5 kg every day!!!!! beside that, it increased my strength dramatically, i started with about 25kg, but by the end of the month i was able to squat 80 kg!!!!!!!!!!!
squats and milk is the best exercise ever.

My craziest exercise/workout was just the other day. It was Friday the 13th and I came up with 13 exercises with 13 reps of each for a fun little circuit at the end of my workout. It went like this:

Pushups: 13
Inverted Pullups: 13
Box Jumps: 13
V-ups: 13
Sandbag Pickups: 13 each side
Russian Twist: 13 each side
Burpees: 13
Pushups: 13
Inverted Pullups: 13
Box Jumps: 13
V ups: 13
Jackknifes: 13
Sandbag pickups: 13 each side

I did that circuit all the way through with no rest periods. I made it through them all but I about puked at the end. I think I am going to have to start implementing that on every Friday the 13th from now on!!!

Why would anyone, much less a 59-year-old woman, spend 1 1/2 hours in a room with a temperature of 105 degrees doing 2 sets of 26 intense yoga positions? Try Bikram Yoga and you will find out your inner strength, agility and sense of accomplishment. My “tree” no longer falls and “awkward” isn’t awkward any more .

Bobi

Patrick,
Yes I would love to send you a bio about myself and why I came up the Friday the 13th workout. You may also send it out in an email to share with everyone. Would you like me to post my bio here on this site or send it to a particular email address?

Patrick:

My name is Daniel Woodrum and I am a 22 years old. I am currently a student at the University of South Carolina. I have always been into fitness and nutrition. I follow a lot of programs from experts such as Mike Geary, Vince Delmonte, and Craig Ballantyne. I hate doing Traditional Cardio and dont believe in it so I often come up with different “Interval Training Cardio” at the end of my workouts. So Thursday night I was brainstorming what type of Interval Cardio I was going to do on Friday and realized it was Friday the 13th. I thought it would be kind of cool and fun to implement some type of cirucit based on this. I started jotting down some ideas and came up with 13 exercises using 13 reps. I did not really want to use any type of weights just basic bodyweight exercises. I wanted mostly full body exercises that would get my heart rate up and be challenging. Here’s what I came up with:

Pushups: 13
Inverted Pullups: 13
Box Jumps: 13
V-ups: 13
Sandbag Pickups: 13 each side
Russian Twist: 13 each side
Burpees: 13
Pushups: 13
Inverted Pullups: 13
Box Jumps: 13
V ups: 13
Jackknifes: 13
Sandbag pickups: 13 each side

I consider myself to be in great shape and it still kicked my butt. I was dripping sweat at the end and it took less than 10 minutes. Now thats what I call Cardio Interval Training!! Not that junk you do on the treadmill or elliptical.

Craziest ab work was hanging from a bar and pulling legs up to chest and kicking a 100# heavy bag in different directions with each kick. Also used the heavy bag with someone sitting on it to drag across the gym.

Muscle ups!

Pull up first and when you reach the top of the pull up, flick the wrists round till you push your body up over the bar! Hard work!!

This workout (mostly BWE) is one of 3. Some exercises may need more explanation.

Warm-up:
prisoner squats. 30 seconds
Pushups. diamond (8 reps), staggered (8 reps each side), wide (8 reps)

rest: (40 second break)

Flip-Up to Burpees (10 reps)
DB one leg Renegade Rows

rest: (60 seconds)

DB Burpees to DB lateral delt raise (8 reps)
Lateral star pushups (6-8 reps)

rest: (120 seconds)

Roll-up (deck squat) to Tuck Jump to Burpees (8 reps)
Push-X – similar to pushT with leg up as well (8 reps per side)

rest: (120 seconds)

Core:
Crunch Spins (imagine the ab wheel but worse)
walking bridge
birddog planks

it’s hard to find a kettlebell here in Philippines, soo i get my 25 pounds dumbbell and tied it together with packing tape, presto i have my 50 pounds kettlebell and it works just fine…

The hardest workout we do is a leg workout. It all takes place at a squat rack. You begin with a 35lb plate on each side of a 45lb bar. The reps are grouped in sets of 5. You start out doing 5 sets of 20 reps, and after each set you add a 5lb plate to each side. After completing 5 sets of 20 reps you then do 5 sets of 19 reps while continuing to add a 5lb plate to each side. You continue this pattern down to doing 5 sets of 15 reps. This gives you a grand total of 525 reps of squats completed in one workout!

My Crazy workout: I superset all my exercises to get max burn and cardio improvement and finish within a 60 minute period. Approaching 68 I need the work and to stay in shape as I work as a full-time Ski and Snowboard Instructor in the Winter time. I do this or a simular workout three times per week with cardio 2-3 times per week to get the heart pumping. Now onto my routine. 1a. 6 sets Glute-Ham Back extensions 1b. 6 sets push-ups 2a.6 sets Close grip bench press alternated with Regular bench press (3 sets of each) 2b. 6 sets of extreme sit-ups done on a glute-ham unit 3a. 3 sets of heavy Sumo squats 3b. 3 sets of seated Arnold shoulder press (Dumbell) 4a. 3 sets of dumbell shoulder shrugs 4b. 3 sets of calf raises using dumbells 5a. sets of dumbell bench rows 5b. dumbell French press 6a. 3 sets of Zottman curls 6b. 3 sets of Farmers Walk with heavy dumbells ( each set is a walk of between 20-30 yards) at pace. After my routine I hit a martial arts bag for three 4 minute rounds before a cool down stretch. Not too Crazy ! ! ! !

The craziest workout I’ve ever done is doing a pull up shoulders length away and I hold the pull up. My chin is usually even with the bar and I bring my knees up to the middle of my stomach while I’m still holding the pullup. I usually do 10 reps.

I did the following

25 two arm 45# kettlebell swings
25 perfect pushups
15 45# one arm kettlebell rows
15 dips
20 one arm kettlebell swings each arm
ran 3/4 mile
did four circuits two minute rest between circuit

age 60
60 yoa

Patrick………….I am glad that I found you via Craig at Turbulence Training and I absorb as much knowledge as possible to benefit myself and those around me. Keep up the great work. George Myers

Here’s mine, a variation on the bodyweight routines out there. I modified the Crazy 8 Bodyweight Circuit and combined it with a modified Leg Matrix.

This is my Wednesday workout:

60 Jumping Jacks
20 Spiderman Pushups
20 Reverse crunches
20 Spiderman climbs on a Swiss ball
10 Burpees
24 Single-leg squats (butt to the floor if you can, 12 per side)
24 Bulgarian split squats (12 per side)
24 Lunges (12 per side)
24 Jump lunges (12 per side)
24 Squat Thrusts/Squat Jumps
60 seconds plank
30 second side plank (per side)
50 High-knees

This is a killer set. Rest 2-3 minutes in between and then do it again. I keep a set of DBs handy for the lunges and single leg squats, weight depends on how I feel that day. I do 3 sets, then follow it with 25 minutes of HIIT or agility drills for soccer.

Agility drills go something like this:

3 sets, 30 seconds rest in between each exercise and set:

50 Toe-to-ball (25 each side)
50 Step-overs (25 each side)
50 Two-footed ball jump (25 each side)
Pyramid Step-overs 1-2-3-4-4-3-2-1

craziest workout i do, actually it’s not really crazy, just do stair climbing during my lunch hour and in between waiting for trains at train stations, people think i’m crazy, hey gotta fit it somewhere.

My craziest workout is what I like to call my “hold & release” day. Its basically where Ill take a group of exercises and hold them till i cant anymore then release them slowly. I do this maybe once a month:

1. Pull up/Chin up-(hold at top position about 40 sec, 10 sec release)

2. Push up-(hold in 1 inch from the ground about 41 sec, 10 sec up)

3. Body Weight Squat-(hold in down position with thighs parallel to the floor about 40 sec, 10 rise up to top position)

4. Barbell Curls-(hold in half way up position for about 40 sec, 10 sec release)

I do this with no rest between sets. Then I follow this up with 100 jump ropes. Also while doing these, Im tightening and releasing my abs (as much as possible). Rest 90 sec and repeat it! Im usually queazy when Im done!

Craziest Workout I ever did (I still have nightmares about it)…it’s called Thunder Thousand

I timed how long it took me to complete the following:

200 Russian Twists (25lb plate)
200 Burpee Pullups
200 Plyometric Pushups
200 Side Shuffle Planks
200 A2G (a$$-to-grass) Squat Jumps

TOTAL TIME: 1HR 11MINS

I am 47 years old and play roller derby 3x per week which we skate for 3hours at a time but my most favorite off skates exercise is LL Cool J pushups! your feet stay put as you rotate clockwise doing a pushup at each stop and then reverse direction Killer!

pullups are fine, but i wanted some added motivation one day. so me and my buddy did pullups off of our shops trusses 14 ft off the ground. we would climb up and the other would move the ladder out of the way. crazy yes, but it worked.

I always wanted to come up with my own little wacky, yet difficult triathlon, so I made this up and did it myself: 10 miles of roller blading followed by 1 hour of jumping jacks (not joking) and then 400 meters of lunges….pretty nutz, but I was the winner of that triathlon:)

Take two kettlebells:
two bell swing 30sec
two bell cleans 30sec
1 bell snatch L/R 10 reps
1 bell Front squats 30 sec
1 bell alternating swing 30sec
2 bell alternating cleans 20 reps
2 bell swing 1 minute
Rest 3 minutes and repeat x2

Killer Fat Burner!!!

SO………… WHO WINS, Patrick??

My craziest workout was:

Jumping one arm push up burpees
combined with alternating chin up and pullups.

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