A viewer asked what exercise I would pick for overall conditioning for outdoor activities if I could only pick one. Thankfully I don’t have to pick only one because I don’t believe that one exercise is perfect for every situation. However, I can pretend for today’s show. While I don’t think that one exercise is perfect, I think that the Kettlebell Swing is about as close to perfect as I have found.
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Tell someone that fishing is a physical sport and you may get some funny looks. Fishing on the flats of the Florida Keys is quite a bit different than sitting under a shade tree with a bobber, worms, and a 6 pack. Poling a skiff is hard work. Often guides pole into the wind for hours at a time with 2 heavy dudes on the bow. Guys do this 100 days in a row or more during the season. It is like being a professional athlete. You are requiring performance out of your body to make a living…regardless of the sea conditions, wind speed, or weight of the boat. The guide’s job is to push the boat and find fish.
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These Physical Friday podcasts have been a lot of fun for me to go through old workouts that I used to do and trying to find as many workouts that you could do with as little equipment as possible. I will be doing a live workout today at 4pm EST on my instagram (@tom_rowland) and my Facebook (Tom Rowland) and my Youtube (permitfly4). You can tune in on any of those and join me in a quarantine workout! Today I found 3 workouts that you could do in a small apartment with no equipment and one of them is from Gregor Gillespie (UFC fighter) and the other two I think you will enjoy as well.
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We are on day 10 of the April Challenges so that means that you should be adding 1 burpee a day and today we are on 10. If you don’t know about the challenge you can read a full description here. We also are getting ready to add a little to the breathing protocol and cold showers. So tomorrow, we move to a 1:00 cold shower, 3 rounds of breathing + 1 additional round where we add a max set of pushups at the end on a full inhale. We continue to add 1 burpee each day.
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During the COVID-19 lockdown, gyms are closed and even public spaces are off limits in places. We need workouts we can do in a small area like an apartment, bedroom or hotel. Equipment is severely limited right now so we need to be able to make do with what is around the house. Almost everyone has a backpack of some sort. Use your kids, with the books in it. Try this workout that I call Jelly legs and keep your body active through the lockdown.
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3,000 pullups for the month of March. Congratulations to everyone that completed the February Pushup Challenge! Welcome to March and all of the pull ups (roughly 100 per day) that we will be doing. Reach out on social and let me know if you are apart of it!
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