Training Ideas, when training gets boring

Spice up your training!

If there is one thing that CrossFit has taught me , it’s that training doesn’t have to be boring or ever the same

Here are some of the ways you can vary your training simply

Running

-Run on the road,

-Run up a hill

-Run with a sand bag

-Run while carrying a person

-Run with ankle weights

-Run with a weighed Vest

-Run long distances

-Sprint 100mt, 200mt, 400mt, 800mt

Skipping

-Singles

-Double Unders

-Triple Unders

-Crossover Skips

-Single Leg Skips

-Single Leg double Unders

BarBell’s

-Learn the simple lifts

-Overhead Press

-Bench Press

-Squat

-Deadlift

-Sumo Dead Lift High Pulls

-Over Head Squats

-Front Squats

-Zercher Squats

Learn the Olympic Lifts

-Clean and Jerk

-Snatch

Then vary them

-Power Clean

-Hang Clean

-Squat Snatch

-Hang snatch

-Knee Jump To Clean

-Knee Jump to Snatch

-Knee Jump to Split Clean

-Knee Jump to split Snatch

Train with a sand bag

And learn all of the Olympic lifts with one and learn all of the barbell lifts with it too

Train with a kettle bell

-kettle bell swings

-kettle bell snatch

-kettle bell clean

-kettle bell press

-kettle bell Turkish get up

-kettle bell press

-kettle bell sumo deadlift high pull

-kettle bell dead lift

-kettle bell high pulls

Train with dumb bell’s

-and learn all of the lifts with the dumb bells

Train with rings or suspension trainers

-L Sit

-Dips

-Push Ups on Rings

-Muscle Up

-Pull Ups

Train on a Chin Up bar

-Pull Ups

-Chin ups

-Toes to bar

-Knee’s to elbows

-plyometric pull ups

-L Pull Up holds

-Bicycle motions while holding the bar

Swing

Row

Ride

Dance

Yoga

Pilates

Boxing

All combat sports for that matter

Train with a friend

Use them as your resistance

Train on the sand

Train using your environment

Jump on and off benches, try and climb over a wall, use monkey bars for chin ups, or a bus station stop for that matter

Get creative and don’t think that Training has to be boring

Raul

CrossFit Down Under