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Its been a bitter/sweet week for me.

The book is almost done, the pictures are taken and I’m super excited about the launch. But on Wednesday, I found out my grandfather died.

With this news, I had two avenues in front of me. A) I could have just stopped what I was doing, locked myself inside my emotions and just fall into an unneeded depression, or B) I can suck it up, stay positive and deal with the emotional aspect of it through your loves and passions.

I chose B! and I also chose to share with the world what I do when I need to remain positive.

Friends, family and Iron. That’s the keys to my remedy.

Check out video about my experiences. If you are a military member , police or firefighter, adversity and tragedy is almost all too common, so properly dealing with it is vital to survival.

Stay Strong!

When I started blogging, over a year ago on my skinnykidslog.blogspot.com site, I did it just for the hell of it. I knew I had a witty writing style, and I needed an online training log. Why not combine them.

Flash forward to today, i’m up to my pie hole in SEO(search engine optimization) knowledge and I sometimes forget to write for myself, not for the computer bots that will help my website succeed.

Its a complete catch 22.

The beauty of writing my newest book, “Maximize your PT” is that I don’t have to worry about putting keywords like “military fitness”, “firefighter fitness” or “Strength training” in the post ( see what I did there? ). I can just write about things I know and am passionate about. Sometimes that leads to rambles, but I don’t care. I think that when listening to a smart person speak, the ramble is where you learn the most. Pre-thought out words are nice, but they don’t show the true emotion of someone who loves what they are preaching.

Try to remember this when your blogging or reading a blog ” Do I sound like I’m passionate about what I do?” If you aren’t, Is it because you’re not passionate, or are you trying to please someone other than yourself? People will appreciate a good personality and a “human” feel much more than a robot spiting out the next greatest thing in the fitness world.  Welcome to web 2.0!

 

As I promised, heres a couple paragraphs from the “unconventional training” section of the new Ebook, “Maximize your PT” Its being finished finished as we speak and after editing and everything else that I have no idea how to do gets done, You’ll be able to own it for a VERY reasonable price.

 …………..Odd object and unconventional training is what I do, love and rant about constantly. The beauty of this style training is its cheap, effective and efficient.
A) cheap- You don’t need a gym membership, big weight set or any fancy machines. Most of the equipment I use was given to me by people wanting to get rid of it. Example. I have 4 different sized tractor tires, ranging from 300lbs to 700 lbs. All of which were FREE! In fact, the most expensive piece of equipment I own is a set of dumbbells with plate weights and a 20 dollar sledge hammer.
That’s it!
B) effective. This stuff works, plain and simple. It gives your body the necessary strain it required to force the adaptation of a stronger, healthier body, mind and spirit, ready to fight!

C) efficient. 20-30 minutes of circuit style training with odd objects is the rational equivilent to an 60-90 minutes of conventional cardiovascular training and 45 minutes of weight training. With functional training, you have the heavy weights need to gain strength and size, combined with the fast pace needed to elevate the heart rate and burn calories.

K.I.S.S.—- Keep It Simple, Stupid! it’s a motto I live by. Too many times I come across people who just over complicate their training and end up either confused and giving up, or not seeing the results they desire.

Theres no need to reinvent the wheel!

The things im saying to you right now were not made up by me. Its true, all im doing is taking older methods of training and implementing them into a different setting. The same results will yield for all, the only difference is the sport of event that you are training for…………

Keep up that “new years spirit” and you’ll succeed!

i’m not going to say much about this next video because its already been described last week. This is a innovative use of a free tire that can benefit your military fitness training TREMENDOUSLY.

 

This and much MUCH more will be included in the upcoming release of “Maximize your PT”, My new Ebook that will be available only on www.combatfitnessblog.com

Always be thinking of new ways.

-Donnie

OK, so youre looking for a new, more efficient and effective way to perform situps, crunches or oblique twists for your military, police, or firefighter PT test? I have the perfect exercise for you.

Extended range of motion situps on a tractor tire!

Best part is, you dont need a partner and you dont need to do high reps. All you need is a tractor tire, which you can acquire free and use for many other exercises.

To begin, Lay your back down on the tire. Hook your toes under the inside lip of the tire and lean back with your butt on the outer edge of the tire. the weight of the tire will counterbalance your bodyweight and the elevated surface of the tire will allow an extended range of motion on the downward motion of the exercise. You can perform conventional situps, long ROM crunches or situps with a oblique twist at the mid-point of a situp repetition. These work great for stretching your abs if you have  “Pink Panther” type posture like myself.

The killer thing about this is the lack of a “rest position” on the down motion. You cant lay your back on the ground so the abs are constantly contracted. Perform sets of 10-20 reps or if 8-10 reps if the oblique twists are added.

I hope you enjoy this new exercise. Be looking out for my new FREE product (when you sign up for my newsletter) where I show you multiple different exercises to perform with a FREE tire.