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  • Animal Moves: How to move like an animal to get you leaner, fitter, stronger and healthier for life
    Animal Moves: How to move like an animal to get you leaner, fitter, stronger and healthier for life
    by Darryl Edwards

    Animal Moves

    • improve strength, speed and stamina
    • increase mobility, flexibility and stability
    • look, feel and perform better

    Find out more and details on how to purchase at www.animalmovesbook.com

  • Paleo from A to Z: A reference guide to better health through nutrition and lifestyle. How to eat, live and thrive as nature intended!
    Paleo from A to Z: A reference guide to better health through nutrition and lifestyle. How to eat, live and thrive as nature intended!
    by Darryl Edwards

    "If you are looking for a simple way to better understand Paleo concepts, Darryl's Paleo from A to Z guide is the go-to resource.
    -Mark Sisson, best-selling author of The Primal Blueprint and publisher of Mark's Daily Apple

  • Paleo Fitness - A Primal Training and Nutrition Program to Get Lean, Strong and Healthy
    Paleo Fitness - A Primal Training and Nutrition Program to Get Lean, Strong and Healthy
    by Darryl Edwards, Brett Stewart, Jason Warner

    "This book is a useful reference to enable individuals just starting out on the Paleo path as well as those who want to explore more challenging, playful and interesting ways to move."

    -Robb Wolf, New York Times best-selling author of The Paleo Solution

     

  • 7 Day Introduction to Paleo Fitness: Get Fitter, Get Stronger, Get Healthier in Seven Days. Move as Nature Intended.
    7 Day Introduction to Paleo Fitness: Get Fitter, Get Stronger, Get Healthier in Seven Days. Move as Nature Intended.
    by Darryl Edwards
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    by Robb Wolf
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    Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
    by Robert M. Sapolsky
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    by Mark Sisson
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    by Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie, Sarah Dopp
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    by Terry Wahls, Eve Adamson
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    by Christopher McDougall
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    In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating: An Eater's Manifesto
    by Michael Pollan
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    Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
    by Michael Pollan
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    The Paleo Diet for Athletes
    by L. Cordain
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    Vegetarian Myth, The
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    The Second Brain
    by Michael D. Gershon
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    The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat
    by Loren Cordain
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    by Irena Macri
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    by Jimmy Moore, Eric C. Westman

Entries in Kettlebell (19)

Wednesday
Jun302010

Workout: @ Home II

 

Push-Ups - 100 reps

Air Squats - 100 reps

Kettlebell Snatches (each arm)

12 reps, then 9, then 6

Box Jumps (24" box) - 50

Skipping

200 Singles

10, 20, 30, 30, 20, 10 Double Unders

Crocodile Plank

1st set 10 seconds

2nd set 20 seconds (and so on for 30, 40 and 50 seconds).

Pull-Ups

1st Round: Maximum Number of Reps 

2nd Round: Half max reps 

3rd Round: Half max reps

 

 

 

Sunday
Jun202010

Workout: 300

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 Spartan Workout:

25 x Pull-up  (any grip)
50 x Deadlift @ 60kg 
50 x Push-up  
50 x Box Jump  (24 inch box)
50 x Floor Wiper @ 60kg 
50 x KB Clean and Press @ 16kg (KB to touch floor between reps)
25 x Pull-up (any grip)

= a total of 300 reps.  

This challenge got me exciting about fitness again.  It seemed so fresh and an interesting approach to working out.  I first completed this in late 2006 and have done it about 6 times since, every 4 or 5 months.  The aim is to complete this as quickly as possible, with minimal rest but with quality reps.  

It's not so much a workout, but a challenge, a benchmark of general physical capacity.  Used as a one time test for the actor's in the film 300 devised by Mark Twight of GymJones.

My first attempt at this took around 50 minutes, my best attempt to date 19 minutes.  Good luck!

KB = Kettlebell (substitute with 18kg DumbBell)

Wednesday
Jun092010

Workout: Kettlebell Blitz


KB = Kettlebell

Warm Up: 10 minute Row (minimum 2000m)

3 rounds of:

10 x two arm KB swings

5 x 1 arm KB swings (L/R)

(take 30-60 second rest after completion of 3rd round)

3 rounds of:

10 x KB front Squat (hold kettlebell horns at chest height)

(take 30-60 second rest after completion of 3rd round)

3 rounds of: 

10 x KB Power Clean & Press

(take 30-60 second rest after completion of 3rd round)

Complete for Time:

5 Burpees : 1 KB Press Up (i.e. perform full pressup on kettlebell horns)

4 Burpees : 2 KB Press Up 

3 Burpees : 3 KB Press Up 

2 Burpees : 4 KB Press Up 

1 Burpees : 5 KB Press Up 

(30-60 second rest)

10 Burpees : 2 KB Press Up (i.e. perform full pressup on kettlebell horns)

8 Burpees : 4 KB Press Up 

6 Burpees : 6 KB Press Up 

4 Burpees : 8 KB Press Up 

2 Burpees : 10 KB Press Up 

Then Finish with Max Rep Chin-Ups (underhand grip)

Feel free to substitute with Dumbbells, if you have no kettlebells to hand.

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