{"id":1323,"date":"2010-09-01T21:49:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T20:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2010-09-01T21:49:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T20:49:41","slug":"training-without-weights-or-a-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/01\/training-without-weights-or-a-gym\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Without Weights or a Gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working away can be a pain for anyone used to the pleasure of having a local Crossfit gym to go to.  God forbid you have to go to a Globo gym and try to do your Crossfit workouts there.  But what can you do?<\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me that there&#8217;s one group of people who are pretty athletic, that given their underground nature, probably don&#8217;t frequent the mainstream gyms, but clearly have <strong>great strength and flexibility<\/strong>.  Parkour types (what&#8217;s the collective name for people who do Parkour??).  Look and you will find and all that, so here ia a Parkour strength training video, from my very own Manchester no less.   <\/p>\n<p>Checkout the weighted squats, pistols, burpees, broad jumps, human flags for reps(!), deadlifts, L-sits, muscle ups, <strong>L-sit muscles ups(!!)<\/strong>, plus a load of crazy made up body weight exercises.  I like their attitude too, I have no doubt they&#8217;d do very well at Crossfit!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpv_videoc\">\n<div class=\"wpv_self\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skarcha.com\/wp-plugins\/wpvideo\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">WPvideo 1.10<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpv_titleauthor\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpv_video\"><object data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MGzepBg216M&#038;feature\/player_embedded\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MGzepBg216M&#038;feature\/player_embedded\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It just goes to show, no kit is no excuse not to exercise, and the things you can do out and about are only limited by your imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working away can be a pain for anyone used to the pleasure of having a local Crossfit gym to go to. God forbid you have to go to a Globo gym and try to do your Crossfit workouts there. But what can you do? It occurred to me that there&#8217;s one group of people who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[122,31,229],"class_list":{"0":"post-1323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crossfit","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-crossfit-workouts-exercises","9":"tag-manchester","10":"tag-parkour"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}