The HELL of heavy ropes

As you can see from the photos of the last Sunday madness workout I have added heavy ropes to our arsenal of training tools,
Although these are quite common in a lot of western training programs Football, Wrestling, MMA, actually any sport that requires a high level of conditioning (just check out the video of Ingrid Markum national weightlifting champion and  member of the US bobsled team) they are not so common here in south east Asia making them a bitch to get hold of and highly pricey to import due to their weight!
I managed to get mine through a friend from a shipping supply company but still there was haggling involved as they only want to sell whole rolls which equate to 220 feet a little more than we need for working out!
anyway I managed to get 2 x 60 feet lengths which are killers, planning to chop one down to 40 feet and use the spare 20ft for other madness you will see in later posts, 

 

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It seems 40ft is a much more common and do-able length in terms of sustaining the movement over time!
I am always the first to admit my fitness and conditioning is far from great as I have always concentrated on mass and strength, hence the commencement of this blog, but damn! simply waving these 60 footers up and down with alternate hands will knock the hell out of you and make you feel like you just sprinted the 100 meter record at the Olympics! especially when used as a metabolic finisher or included in a full body circuit,
The other bonus with this kind of training is no DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) as these and sled work are whats known as eccentric less forms of training so the movements are always in the concentric phase meaning no real muscle soreness the next day,  only in the words of Brett "a cellular level fatigue",
Even though this mode of training is so tough it is far more enjoyable than mindlessly plodding along on some boring treadmill or elliptical as you see so many of the drones doing in your local gym, and 12 months later the same drones doing exactly the same thing in exactly the same place looking exactly the same as they did last year!
So if you have a chance to get your hands on some ropes give them a try go for it they are great and a real challenge.