We spoke with Alex Leviton of kengurupro.us about calisthenics and body weight exercise that you should incorporate into your running and obstacle race training. I met Alex last year when I was looking towards building a calisthenics park community. After securing funding I looked high and low for someone to provide fitness equipment for our park. I quickly discovered the park building was not intuitive and I needed a lot of help. I started with Internet research, asked lots of questions but just could not find who to buy this equipment from. So finally I contacted a company called KenguruPro and an email from Alex.
KenguruPro is not a US company, but Alex is the distributor for the United States. And after speaking with him, he helped us get set up with our park. Once we received our equipment, he came down over Memorial Day weekend with his crew of three other people and we installed the park and did the good work to get this equipment established in our community. And we are so happy it's finally here. And thank you Alex for making that possible in Jimmy, for helping with installation.
We also discussed practical application of calisthenics and body weight training for OCR.
The first thing that comes to mind is grip strength, but there is so much more. There's the false gripC regular grip, reverse grip, and neutral grip; a lot of different grips that we have. Different movements require different grips.
In Ninja competition or obstacle racing, you're kind of jumping between the isometric and the plyometric movement. What really kills you in between is not getting the plyometric. The issue seems to be once we've done the plyometric and now we have to hold on to the next hold to prepare the body for the next explosive movement. Well, this is going to do is condition the body to build up less lactic acid during those static movements . So it should make those static holds feel a lot more like butter.
So this is very applicable to OCR where we perform these movements with our hearts racing at 180 beats per minute. So, does this mean that we learn to run faster in these obstacle races or do you need to grip better these obstacle races? Either way, we end up doing grip strengthening in training with after a run to replicate 180 beats per minute. Just walking up fresh to the bar and doing pullups is not the answer. In OCR we have to be ready to grip in any environment.
We also discussed various exercises to strenthen the soft tissues around the shoulders, elbows and hands.
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