Your fav dryland routines

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Former Member — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:42:15 GMT

We took the kids to the SkyZone trampoline park this past weekend... let me tell you...90 minutes of jumping around is a great core/leg workout... I'm sore 2 days later... probably not the best thing since I'm swimming state this weekend!

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tigerchik — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:50:24 GMT

My latest dryland shoulder exercise is to hang from a pullup-bar and retract my scapula. It's NOT doing a pullup - it works scapular stabilizers. Initially I could hold it for about ten seconds; now I'm at 30. I also do single-arm side planks.

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Former Member — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:00:42 GMT

MY fav dryland is: i have a special spoon. and a special bowl. then i get either BlueBell Mocha Almond Fudge or Chocolate Mooo-linium or Carmel Sunday Crunch and put in a few scoops. then my right arm gets a workout lifting it all to my mouth while my left arm gets a workout holding it tight. not saying its the "best" dry land workout, but i doubt someone will post a better one! :D :applaud: Blue Bell Tiramisu is also worthy of such a regimen, IMO. It's hard to find which somehow makes it even better.

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Former Member — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:13:02 GMT

For the last two years I've been using stretch-cord exercises three times a week for my drylands and I supplement them with some leg work in the weight room twice a week. I also use this routine with my middle-school and high school swimmers. They're easy, inexpensive and safe. Coach T I had two of them, both broken. Perhaps I used to much force on them.

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poolraat — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:08:13 GMT

My fave is lifting 12 oz weights at The Stray Dog. I do this training session about once a week, usually on Fridays after work. I start with the right hand then switch to the left as the right tires.

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sunruh — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:24:30 GMT

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__steve__ — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:11:33 GMT

Two recent additions to my dryland routine are stretch cords and plyos: Stretch CordsSeem to act differently than weights, and there's a bonus with freedom to try plenty of movements. Also works stability groups in joints. The type of muscle fibers required I haven't figured out, but like gravity resistance, it's probably related to load and the speed of the movement. Anyhow, it feels different than moving mass around, and provides a nice alternative or compliment to weights. Sometimes I add a few cords in various places of weight machines (and free weights) in addition to the weight for an added effect near the end of the movement. PlyometricsDepth Jumps: Hopping from a 10 - 30" platform and rebounding with a jump within a fraction of a second from landing. The land loads the muscles and tendons, which is the preload for the jump. I find a location with a series of platforms at various heights (bleachers) and use static objects forward of view to gauge jump height, like a baseball field fence about 20' away and a building much further back. I place a mark on the fence at achieved peak heights. The goal is to start from a low platform and gradually increase the depth of jump in relation to achieved vertical increases. People usually stare at the strange exercise. If asked, I tell them I'm catching insects. This helps my race starts, which is most of the race in a 50 I also made up the plyometric pushup: It's just a old school "girls pushup" (aft supported from the knees instead of feet), but start by kneeling upright. While keeping things straight, you land and quickly bounce, with a push, back to vertical. Seems to work better with a tethered stretch cord pulling you back up. This exercise is done at home for obvious reasons. Hoping this will help upper body speed.

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Former Member — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:04:07 GMT

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__steve__ — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:33:15 GMT

That's the most challenging pose of all

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mlabresh — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:43:29 GMT

You gotta give yourself more dryland street cred. That's not sleeping, that's yoga (yoga.about.com/.../savasana.htm). corpse pose! yesssssss. :cool:

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orca1946 — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:42:24 GMT

I swim m - w - sun with the team . On tue - thur - fri, I swim 2,000 + 65 mins. on the spin cycle + 20 mins. wts + 400 crunches + 2,000 yds. on the rowing machine + walk 2 laps between each phase.

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Patrick W. Brundage — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:15:40 GMT

my favorite dryland routine? :bed: You gotta give yourself more dryland street cred. That's not sleeping, that's yoga (yoga.about.com/.../savasana.htm).

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mlabresh — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:23:52 GMT

my favorite dryland routine? :bed: :D really, I wish I was organized enough to add some dryland stuff into my routine, but it's hard enough to get to the pool a lot of the time. usually, if I do something other than swimming, it's running. I do try to bust out a few push-ups and sit-ups now and then with the kids though.

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Boomerang — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:38:07 GMT

My training partner and I do a lot of the exercises contained in this NC State Dryland video. Hope it helps! www.youtube.com/watch