With a continuously running clock, do one pull-up and one handstand push-up the first minute, two pull-ups and two handstand push-ups the second minute, three pull-ups and three handstand push-ups the third minute… continuing as long as you are able. When you cannot complete the required number of reps for either exercise, continue only with the other as long as you are able.
Use as many sets in any order each minute as needed.
Post number of minutes successfully completed for each exercise to comments. Their sum is your score.
Dombey and Schiesow, moving there body's in a way they were meant to be moved, pushing something heavy!
The fitness industry uses the word "functional" as much as the food industry uses the word "natural". It is used so much so, that it no longer retains it's original meaning. So what is the true meaning of a functional movement and why is that the best way to achieve fitness?
A functional movement is a movement that mimics the patterns found in everyday life and sport. Squatting is simply standing from a seated position, deadlifting is simply picking something up off the floor. The key here is that no man invented them. They were here long before people were striving to be the fittest. Isolation movements are not found in everyday life. Imagine you are in a grocery store parking lot. You see a women across the lot with a heavy bag of dog food on the bottom of her cart. She picks it up, brings it to her shoulders and heaves it into the back of her car. Essential she cleans and jerks it. Now, wander your eyes around the same lot, is anyone bicep curling their grocery's into the car?
Functional movements have two important characteristics. First, they are what the body is meant to do, they are mechanically sound and therefore safe. Secondly, functional movements elicit a very high neuroendocrine response (the reason we love Olyimpic lifting)
In order to maintain capacity we must train capacity.
Functional fitness? Or a colossal waste of time?
