Planche Push Up, Work The Core

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Work up to it. Create a plan for yourself that will get you doing one planche pushup over a few weeks or months of training. Start by working up to doing sets of 50 pushups without problem. Then gradually begin to move your hands towards your abdomen so that you start to focus your muscles for the planche pushup.
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Do a tucked, negative planche. In the full version of the planche pushup, your legs will be fully extended and in the air as you do the exercise. To get started, though, plant your hands on the ground and raise your legs in a tucked position. Balance yourself by resting your knees on your elbows. Once you have your balance lower yourself as far as possible. Then resume the initial position. Continue with these negative until you feel confident with them.
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Do a partial planche. Once you have built your strength adequately you can extend your legs. You will probably find that you will need to angle your legs upwards so that they form a 20- or 30-degree angle to your body. Do the partial planche like this, making sure that when you do the pushup you're moving straight up and down.
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Move to the full planche. Start from a position where your hands are planted by your abdomen and you're suspending yourself midway between the up and down positions. Extend your legs all the way and raise them off the ground, balancing yourself on your hands. Keep tension throughout your whole body. Raise yourself up and down in a straight line, keeping your body as straight as an arrow as you go.

Core Workout and getting stronger!

Spending day after day on the bike or in the pool, running countless miles, might drive you nuts. So on the days that you have a core workout session head to a Gracie Academy for some Jui-Jitsu training. Why not branch out and learn something new, strengthen your tendons and find your center. The Gracie's have been doing it since 1925, family owned and taught, you can't say that about to many places. Size and strength are not a factor, learning the moves and getting taped out will teach you and help you progress. Hey if you just want to learn the moves, join their Ezine and receive their newsletter.

Bark Paddleboards, great core workout!

Nothing beats changing things up during the season like a paddleboard. Challenging, a great core workout and getting in touch with surroundings. Some things that are missed when triathletes look out into the water before a start is what is happening, tied, wind direction, swells. Getting out on a board and feeling the ocean will hep you in the swim.

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Great Abs, Better Running

Training Peaks one of the leaders in providing great workouts and advice for the multisport athlete, has a great blog entry for getting great abs. Yes part is genetics but really it is working hard and eating right. A benefit to having great abs is fewer injuries and better running performance.

How do you get great abs? Running is a good start, because it burns fat. But running alone won’t do the job. You also have to eliminate those extra calories from your diet that are turned into belly fat. Even if you run 50 miles a week, your paunch won’t vanish if you continue to eat donuts and french fries all day long. Finally, you need to condition your abdominal muscles with core strength exercises, because even with a very small amount of belly fat your core muscles won’t show through if they are poorly conditioned. More.. Training Peaks

Chop Wood

So the winter is tough and lately it has been cold, bitter cold for some in the Northeast. Well time to break it up and work parts of your body you never though you had. Fiskars axes are incredible, they go through wood like butter, that being said grab one and head out to the wood pile and start chopping, after about an hour stack what you have chopped and head in to enjoy your reward, warming yourself by the fire. The next day you will thank yourself, you might be sore enough to stay in front of the fire.

Slackline great core strength

Gibbon-Slackline
You might ask yourself what is Slacklining, well:
Slacklining is a balance sport which utilizes nylon webbing stretched tight between two anchor points. Slacklining is distinct from tightrope walking in that the line is not held rigidly taut; it is instead dynamic, stretching and bouncing like a long and narrow trampoline. The line's tension can be adjusted to suit the user and different types of dynamic webbing can be used to achieve a variety of feats. The line itself is flat, due to the nature of webbing, thus keeping the slacker's footing from rolling as would be the case with an ordinary rope. The dynamic nature of the line allows for impressive tricks and stunts.

What better way to get in shape and find your center, yes Yoga could help but nothing beats being outside. Gibbon-Slackline is a great way to find that center.

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