I am full of all kinds of information, and I know some crazy workouts that I’ve learned in the Army that help out A LOT, so feel free to drop me a line and ask questions…. or if you feel you know something that could help me better myself, please do share!

Right now I have started training mostly without weights. I use my own body weight for as many different exercises as I possibly can - pull-ups (I LOVE wide arm pull-ups especially), push-ups with my hands in many different stances and widths; sometimes done with my feet elevated, decline bench sit-ups, steel-crosses, Thai-squats, etc. etc. I use resistance bands a lot for curls, laterals, shoulder-presses, and any other movement I feel like doing. I will use free weights maybe twice a week at the gym, and even then I keep it low weight - high rep.

Try this exercise for a good core work out (also works on your grip quite well)… it came to me randomly one day while at the gym and it’s one of the toughest movements I’ve tried:

Acquire a good grip on the wide-arm pull-up bars, keeping your feet together and legs straight, raise your feet forward and up (a leg-raise). Do as many as feels comfortable to you for a warm-up. Rest for 30 seconds. Get back into the same position on the wide-arm pull up bars, this time cant your feet and legs to the left or right side of your body, and lift your legs up as far as you can, then rotate towards the opposite side with your legs still parallel to the ground (as if there is an object directly underneath you and you are trying not to touch it), and lower your legs canted to the opposite side that you started. Then do the same movement back to the side where you started. Do 3-4 sets of however many you feel comfortable doing. Everyone’s core strength is different so I can’t really give you an exact number of reps, just use your own judgment of what you think you can do. I find that about 4 or 5 rotations for 4 sets leaves me with that good kind of soreness the next day. Hope that is a good work out for some of you to try. Maybe it’s nothing new at all, but I had never heard of it before.