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Hey there Niels! Here’s your CUSTOM TRAINING PROGRAM. All you have to do is give commitment and a wee bit ‘o courage. Talk with your coach and the community to keep moving forward and making tremendous progress. Just give us ~30-60 MINUTES 3-6 days a week to skyrocket your results! Thanks for being part of the community and we’re looking forward to everything you’re going to achieve!
Form over number of reps always!
Description: Follow along with this video for a full-body flexibility training.
Description: Begin sitting with one leg back before you as the video shows. Use your hip and core muscles to bring your leg around the front and produce a high kick. Try not to let your trunk sway to the side to compensate.
Goal: 10 reps each leg.
Description: Follow the video to get your wrists ready for weight bearing.
Description: A great ankle and foot warm up / workout. Either 10 sec holds OR 10 reps of each.
Description: Begin by separating your feet further than hip width with your arms out to the side. Squat to 90 degrees or lower and hold.
Goal: 3 rounds of 2 reps with 30 second hold
Description: Begin in a pike with one leg suspended in the air. Kick your suspended leg up while hopping off your planted foot while you shift your weight into your hands. Land with the foot that was originally planted.
Goal: 3 rounds of 5 kick ups each leg.
Description: Start in a tuck planche plank position with feet on a yoga block. You will then engage your core to bring your knees to your chest without lifting your hips higher than your head.
Goal: 3 rounds of 2 reps with 30 sec holds per rep
Description: Begin in a pike position and elevate one leg up behind you. Keep that knee straight the entire time. While keeping that leg from touching the floor, rotate your body and shoulders to come into a table top position. Focus on keeping your hips up throughout and do not let your bottom drop. Rotate back into a pike.
Goal: 3 rounds of 5 reps each direction
Description: Hanging on a pull-up bar or equivalent surface, use your core to lift your legs into a crunch, knees to chest. You will then use your core and shoulders to rotate your knees from one side to another.
Goal: 3 rounds of 5 reps each direction
Description: Rest a leg on a surface between knee and hip height (higher is harder). Make sure your entire ankle-knee is supported. Perform a lunge with your stance leg to open up your raised hip.
Goal: 3 rounds of 10 reps.
Description: This move begins on your back with your legs in a straddle. Maintain the straddle as you use your lower core to raise your legs up and towards your head as far as you can without using momentum.
Goal: 3 rounds of 10 reps.
Goal: Use a strap, towel, etc. to loop around you foot and hold x 1 min each leg
Description: This move starts in standing. You will hold the towel with 1 arm that will lift above your head causing the towel to be placed behind your back. Then with the other arm you will reach behind your back for the towel. Work your hands towards each other using the towel as a guide to bring them closer together. When you have reached as closely together as you can, use the upper hand to pull the towel slightly up to give an extra stretch to the lower hand behind your back.
Goal: 5 reps each arm with 15 sec holds
Description: Begin by doing a handstand wall walk up. Bring your “stance” foot to your hip height so you are in a piked handstand. Touch the floor with your other foot then raise it back up straight into a handstand. Your stance foot remains in the same place throughout all your reps.
Goal: 3 rounds of 5 reps each leg.
Description: Pull yourself up to your nipple line without using momentum. If you cannot make it to nipple line then work negatives by stepping up on a bench or step and controlling the lowering.
Goal: 3 rounds of 8 reps.
Description: This is a great coordination move. Begin with your hands on the floor in front of you. You will shift your weight towards your stance leg while straightening out your sweep leg. Begin your sweep out in front of your body and towards your stance leg. Put your weight into your arms and “hop” your stance leg over sweep leg then continue to bring your sweep leg around your body.
Goal: 3 rounds of 5 reps per side
Description: This move starts sitting on the ground, legs straight, feet on a raised surface and pointed. Then, with no momentum, lean forward, and use your core and triceps to lift as powerfully as possible to lift your bottom. Shifts your hips forward as you bend your knees then return to legs straight position by pulling your hips back. Focus on holding your core tight to keep a rounded posture to support your back and your shoulders forward.
Goal: 3 rounds of 8 reps
Description: Follow this video with SOUND ON to perform bridge over ball
Goal: 3 rounds of 3 reps with 10 second hold in bridge
Description: Begin in a deep horse stance as low as you can do with your arms pinned to your ears. Perform a squat jump landing in the same position you started in.
Goal: 3 rounds of 8 reps.
Description: Lay on your back with hips ~1 foot away from a wall. Place one foot up on the wall and cross your other leg over it to form a figure 4. Use your arms to push your knee away from your body.
Goal: 15 sec hold x 3 reps each leg.
Description: Start standing with hands on a surface waist height or higher. Then walk feet backwards and bend at hips to allow the shoulders to open. Hold position for a count of 10 seconds *Focus to ensure that your back doesn’t arch and the movement comes from your shoulders.*
Goal: 10 reps.
Description: Get into your frog stand with your feet near the wall so that as you balance your feet are assisting you. Maintain a forward lean with hips stacked over your hands and shoulders and then lift 1 leg up off the elbows and return with control.
Goal: 3 rounds of 3 reps per leg.
Description: Begin in hanging with arms straight and core active in hollowbody position. Maintain arms straight arms while you pull your shoulder blades down away from your ears.
Goal: 3 rounds of 10 reps
Description: Hanging on a pull-up bar or equivalent surface, tuck your knees to your chest then return to fully straight position.
Goal: 3 rounds of 10 crunches.
Description: Begin with your arms out in front of you to assist with counterbalancing. Balance on one leg with your other leg held out in front of you. Slowly lower yourself via pistol squat to a raised surface of appropriate height (edge of bed, couch arm, couch seat). Then place the lifted leg on the floor to stand. The surface should be low enough that you wouldn’t be able to stand with just one leg.
Goal: 3 rounds of 10 reps each leg.
Description: Begin on your back. Reach one leg across your body and then make an outward circle with the leg. Use your core to lift your hips off the ground and bring the opposite leg with you as your roll over and push yourself up to plank.
Goal: 3 rounds of 5 reps each side.
Description: Begin in a pike position. Perform a push up assuring only your elbows/shoulders are moving but you are keeping the angle at your hips the same.
Goal: 3 rounds of 8 push ups.
Description: Begin on your stomach and contract into a superman. Roll to your back then up into a V. Lower back down and roll back to superman.
Goal: 3 rounds of 6 reps.
Description: This move starts in a lunge position. Then you contract your abs to lessen the arch of the lower back and lean forward allowing your hips to open. Focus on not allowing your back to arch as you lean forward.
Goal: 15 second hold x 4 reps each leg
Description: Sit on your feet and lower your hips down to your heels. Walk your hands out as far as you can. Then while keeping your booty on your heels, walk your hands to the left as far as you can. Then walk your hands to the right.
Goal: 10 second holds x 4 reps each direction.
Description: This is your foundation kata
REMEMBER TO START BY ROLLING FROM YOUR KNEE
Goal: 2-3 reps