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The 300 Spartan Workout

With the popularity of his first DVD, The Ultimate Upper-Body Pull-Up Workout, we just had to release the next video in Steve's line of great bodyweight training DVDs: The 300 Spartan Bodyweight Challenge Maxwell takes simple bodyweight exercises and augments them into very intense and effective routines that you can do at your home or gym with little or no equipment. These drills will improve your strength, endurance, athleticism and promote fat loss and cardiovascular strength as well. Train like a Spartan warrior and take on the ultimate bodyweight training routine: The 300 Spartan Workout.

Labels: Bodyweight Training, bodyweight workout, Cardio, Endurance, Flexibility, Gymnastics Rings, Progression, Pullups, Spartans, Steve Maxwell, Upperbody Workout, warrior training

On several occasions, someone has written in to say that while they get results doing high-rep bodyweight squats, they still find them boring and tedious. Well...

If you're going to be squatting for several hundred reps, it should be understood that it is going to take anywhere from 15 minutes to a half hour or more depending on just how high you're going to go.

So essentially you have two choices:

a) Get tough and fight through it

or

b) Find another way to train your legs because this high-rep stuff isn't for you

Either way will work.

If you go the high rep route, instead of focusing on how much time it takes, instead focus on the tremendous benefits you will get from squatting for high reps:

Increased strength... increased endurance... stronger joints... cardiovascular help... mental toughness... and the personal satisfaction of stepping up to your own personal challenge.

Given these benefits, I think the time involved is a very small price to pay and that's part of the challenge: to fight through something that may not be particularly comfortable at first.

Once you start seeing results though, you'll actually grow to enjoy it.

Although with that being said, it also helps to make yourself a mix CD of your favorite songs which lasts for the duration of your squatting session. - That's at least one way to make it a little "easier."

Train hard,
John Wood

P.S. High rep squatting is one part of the "Royal Court" - three of the most effective bodweight movements. Find out more in Matt Furey's Combat Conditioning Program

Labels: Bodyweight Squats, Combat Conditioning, Endurance, Flexibility, High Rep Work Out, Matt Furey, Mental Toughness