It was in the early 90's that I first read about Longstrength. Dr Len Schwartz created heavyhands exercise, but this was one application of what he called Panaerobics. Panaerobics involved the use of as many muscles as possible in a strength-endurance fashion, giving rise to some interesting exercise combinations.
One example: set a pullup bar or rings at shoulder or chest height, grab the bar, and squat down until your arms are fully stretched. Now rise up with the combined drive of your legs and a pull. Doing pullups like this enables you to do many more pullups than you normally could, and works your legs at the same time. If the bar is fixed, you can push/resist agains the bar as you rise from your squat, working your upper body like a military press.
If you have rings, lower them until they are about waist or hip high, then squat down until you are in a full dip position. You can do a combination of squat and dip just like the squat and pullup, again giving you more reps in the upper body exercise and work for the lower body.
I have been experimenting with the Longstrength concept and doing things like one arm pullups with squats, and one arm pullups with one leg squats. I have found that pulling with one arm and squatting with the opposite leg works best for me.
There are a lot of things that can be done with rings if you look at videos for the TRX Suspension trainer.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TRXtraining
Does anyone else do things like this?
One example: set a pullup bar or rings at shoulder or chest height, grab the bar, and squat down until your arms are fully stretched. Now rise up with the combined drive of your legs and a pull. Doing pullups like this enables you to do many more pullups than you normally could, and works your legs at the same time. If the bar is fixed, you can push/resist agains the bar as you rise from your squat, working your upper body like a military press.
If you have rings, lower them until they are about waist or hip high, then squat down until you are in a full dip position. You can do a combination of squat and dip just like the squat and pullup, again giving you more reps in the upper body exercise and work for the lower body.
I have been experimenting with the Longstrength concept and doing things like one arm pullups with squats, and one arm pullups with one leg squats. I have found that pulling with one arm and squatting with the opposite leg works best for me.
There are a lot of things that can be done with rings if you look at videos for the TRX Suspension trainer.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TRXtraining
Does anyone else do things like this?
