Thursday, August 25, 2011

Body Weight Strength Goals

Some Relative Strength Standards based on body weight for those looking to see where they measure up compared to elite military operators. Also noticed in some martial arts schools doing a 100 push ups is one of the many prerequisites for getting advanced level belt promotions.  

BW Squat > 120 in 120 secs
BW Push up >  100 in 120s
BW Pull up  >   20 in 120s
BW Sit up  >    100 in 120s

And again an excellent way to improve your numbers would be a quick tabata circuit ,you can do each exercise for 4 min a piece ,  you can pick two exercises and alternate them for the 4 minutes, you can pick all four exercises and will alternate  problem with this is that not enough volume so you may have to run through the circuit 2 more times , but should allow enough time for beginners to recover.

Another way to get those high reps is to do ladder/pyramid workouts , example do 100 reps , by doing 1 rep per set until you reach rep 10 , and then work your way back down to rep 1 and if you do the math that's 100 reps. 

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