The "Look! Look at my cool workout!" thread

Prince_Alarming

Black Belt
OK so I thought I'd start a thread for everybody's workouts, hopefully we can learn off each other and incorporate bits of stuff from each other's homebrews.

Today:

Warmup: leg swings from all positions, 30 triple punches in horse stance, unloading wood from back of truck

3 rounds:
6 Turkish getups each side with 10kg, only managed 5 on last set
10 pushups
10 ab wheel rollouts from standing
Tae guek yuk jong, nai hanchi and chinto between and after sets, aiming for a 2 minute rest period (these seem to be getting longer the older I get (sadly)

Chins, single set to less than failure, only managed 1 miserable chin, not even a real pullup

Cool down: all the pinans and kushanku
stretch in straddle, forward bend and seiza positions

The actual workout is modelled on the routine I did as a kid during my brief and disastrous flirtation with the military, involving a short and hard circuit, but modernised to include a weighted exercise and with ab wheel standing in for the situps, The third exercise, in this case rollouts, is considered 'exercisers choice', so I can use a bit of my kit like the ab wheel, skipping rope, sometimes I might rip a heavy deadlift off the floor although obvioiusly that can't happen to often. Progression is a matter of doing the same workout 3 times and then adding 5 reps to the pushups or getting up to 10 reps a side on the TGUs then adding 5Kg and starting over on the reps.

So what are you guys doing?
 
It's been a heavy week at work, and it promises to be even heavier later this week, so I just did a circuit to keep things going. I call it 'the sender of eight', a Terry Pratchett reference.

3 rounds:
10 pushups (16 on last set)
10 ab wheel rollouts
max rep sit down and single leg squat going up: 5 reps/side
10 bench dips
10 bicep curls, 20kg
10 deadlifts, 70kg
10/side twisting situps
100 jumps skipping

2 mins rest

went light on the deadlifts as I haven't deadlifted in a while, could have done 10x100kg but I didn't want to push it as I haven't deadlifted recently
the sit down and single leg squat up is a way of easing into doing proper pistol squats.
I always say if you have anything left to bring on the last circuit/set, then bring it!
 

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