This week will be completely dedicated to one of the most important strength aspects, Bodyweight(or relative) strength.
In the Military, you rarely have to lift heavy things by yourself. Hell most of the skinny fucks in the military couldn’t lift a rubber rafts if it fell in top of them, but thats ok. Thats why we have battle buddies. The one thing you MUST have though, is relative body strength, meaning your strength to bodyweight ratio. You must be able to push your body off of the ground and back down at least 45-50 times consecutively. You must be able to pull your upper torso off the ground and back down at least 50-55 times consecutively as well.
That is all relative bodyweight strength. It doesn’t matter if you can bench a house. If you cant move your body out of the way quickly, huge power means nothing(in a combat situation).
Today is video #1. The alternating single arm elevated plyometric pushup.. wheew, that’s a mouthful. Today’s guest exerciser is NPC heavyweight bodybuilder Ryan Watson. Ill be posting a new video every day this week, so make sure you keep coming back.
PS: Ryans Bodyweight at time of filming was 290lbs!
I got back from my field training exercise with all my limbs and most of my brain cells. We ended up getting barracks to stay in so the outdoors tenting wasn’t required. My company came in first in Land Nav and overall first time qualification with the M16. CO and 1SG was happy, which lead to an early redeployment time. Of course that meant more drinking time for me
Anyway, Before I left, I promised you the live Ustream video replay and I also come through with my promises. Enjoy the advice on combat training, physical training and just preparation for my life’s battles.
Yeap, its that time again. This Thursday, April 30th at 8PM EST, ill be hosting a live Ustream conference. The Topic, you ask?
Preparing yourself for battle!
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Not just the literal aspect, but for any competition you will be facing, you need to know the proper things to do and not to do.
I’ll be explaining how I prepare for a field training exercise (which ill be leaving for at 330 AM, Friday morning) so if your thinking about joining a military service or you just want to see what goes in to the prep work, come check it out.
After I’m done, ill open the floor to ANY QUESTIONS you may have about ANY kind of battle/competition prep. or training in general. I’m an open book, so dont be shy.
Once again, thats THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH @ 8PM EST!!!!! As always, the Ustream conferences are FREE!
If you’ve been following along for the past week, you know that my coach and friend Elliott Hulse was preparing for a strongman competition which, If he won, would give him professional status in the American Strongman Corp.
Well heres the final update. How did Elliott do? Well if you were following my Twitter or Facebook, you’d already know. For those who dont know, Heres the little video I put together of the show. Enjoy, troops!
(disclaimer. I didnt video 2 of the events, so your only seeing the last 3 events. For a full recap, head over to HulseStrength.com and check out his video.)
Donnie Kiernan is just a normal guy who has a love for training Military, Police and Firefighter's to their peak physical condition. His background includes serving in the United States Army Intelligence Corps, membership and active competitor in the North American Strongman Inc. and several years of experience in the marketing industry. He is currently training for a pending deployment to Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn.
