Core

Below is yesterday’s core workout, for anyone interested. I think we will go tomorrow at 5 pm and then take Friday off for the holiday. I have a simple bit special workout planned for tomorrow. And by simple I mean hard. 

The Secret to Getting Strong

Those of you who’ve been part of Gym Harold workouts these past few months know what I’m going to say. If you want to get strong, lift, press, pull or push heavy weight. That’s it. It really isn’t complicated.  But obviously there are a few nuances, a critical one being “what defines heavy”? My opinion is it should on the uncomfortable side but not overbearingl so.  

Here Summer and Thalia are doing two of my favorites: prowler pushes and suitcase carries.  4 sets of each for about 100 yards. This will definitely do the trick. 

Friday Workout

Here is today’s workout, for anyone interested. Short (Roughly 35 minutes) but pretty tough.  Leave a comment if you give it a go. 

Workout Today!

How does 4:15 work for you all?

Lots of work today; will be more of a Wednesday-type workout. This will be the last set we will do:

6. 50 air squats + 75 Pushups + 100 situps

See you all then, hopefully!

Bands

Do yourself a favor and buy either these (linked below), or a comparable brand. We don't do a lot of band work because, well, most of you don't own them. But they are amazing and should be incorporated into your routine at least three times per week. 

They are especially great as a warm up for a run or for soccer. Simple exercises include side steps and monster walks. You can easily look up both on YouTube. Both help develop glute and hip strength, both of which are obviously key to good movement.

Bands!

Core Tuesday

If anyone is up for it, we will do care at 4:45 pm pst. I like core day; gives us a chance to do what I call pre-hab (injury prevention) type of work.  Many of these smaller muscle groups such as the hip extensors, lower back, glutes, etc are the ones that keep us moving. I need to take a dose of my own medicine on this. I am presently in my sixth week of rehab and I believe it likely could have been avoided had I focused a bit more on some of this important work. It is satisfying, however, to see some of the exercises we focus on such as jumping squats and single leg flute bridges, incorporated into our training. Guess I am doing something right!

Please leave a comment if you see this btw. Trying to make sure I'm not talking to myself here.

Tonights core workout:

100 situps

100 flutter kicks

1 minute superman hold

1 minute right side plank

1 minute left side plank

25 single leg glute bridge (right leg)

25 single leg flute bridge (left leg)

Tabata Vups

2 minute plank hold

Welcome

We've been at this, together, for a few months now and have created our own little community, which is kind of cool.  I thought it might be fun to create a Gym Harold blog platform, which will hopefully drive a bit more engagement than Instagram. For those of you who know me, you might know that I like to play around with various blogging platforms. I've used this one in the past, though it has been a few years.

I will use this for a variety of purposes; to post the workouts in advance; talk about why we do the workouts that we do; post articles that I think you might find of interest and more. I also thought/hope that this would be a platform for you guys to share your thoughts too. 

I'm completely open to any of your suggestions as well.

Also: see tonight’s workout, below. Two relatively long aerobic sets.  Not designed to be too difficult (maybe a 6 or 7 on 1-10 scale) , but rather to get the blood flowing  as start the week.