Yoooooooo! Good morning fellow fit aspiring peeps!
Wanted to share my rope skipping routine - and something I recently started is hip twists. I get in about 3 rounds with 1 minute breaks (sometimes longer if somebody get's to talking to me or people are walking by). My rope is a 1.5lb steel cable that I make myself with the same ball-bearing handles I've had for years.
I have a bunch of unorthodox exercises I do in the gym that steer away from bodybuilding and more toward functionality that incorporates total body movement. Many people ask me how I work out my legs, they assume I squat heavy. I don't. I only do body weight squats (10 sets of 20 reps), wall sits, box jumps and body weight hamstring preacher curls, sometimes I do lunges with a medicine ball and I extend out (like I'm handing the ball to somebody). I haven't done a traditional weighted squat, leg press, dead lifts or anything like that for many, many years.
If anybody is interested in this sort of stuff, I'd be happy to share more. It's taken my years to develop the stuff that works for me and to truly compliment the sports I do. Learned a lot of it from Coach Ross (rossboxing.com) and martial arts/MMA stuff I've done over the years.
At 44 years old, this is probably the most fit I've ever been. It's also been the most humbling, checking my ego and not touching those big, heavy weights. Lifting heavy in my 20's truly damaged my body in ways I could not foresee during that time.
and barely could do them. I do another good one called windmills. Again, started off with no weight and worked my way up!
