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This morning I did 7,7, 5, 4, 5 pull ups, so harder than the first go at pressups where I managed 15 at the end.
Swirly,
I'm afraid I'm not using a bar, but a beam in the garage that supports a partial ceiling for storage. Works for pull ups ( but not chinups as I'd hit my head on the ceiling). I'm not sure the grip would be good enough for one arm pullups. I'll give it a go when I've improved my strength a lot
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Although once again I'm climbing this weekend so I'll be doing it after a night in a tent, doing it before the climbing this time though
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Is that wise - you'll be knackered before you start. I'd rather find myself pumped half way through the pressups rather than halfway through a climb at the crux move 
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Dave Horsley, going to wales, I reckon the 2 hour walk in will be enough recovery time  Mind you last weekend I managed to do just that: pump out and fall off the crux and that was on a VS when I'd done an E1 with no problems less than an hour before.
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Dave Horsley, as another person who doing exercises at home I've been wondering what you used for the dips. So for I've been doing benchdips (can manage 10 x 3 sets) with a chair for my feet and on the kitchen worktop. I can't work out what would be stable enough to do full bodyweight ones.
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peura,
I use the bath with my feet up on one end  . Nearest I can get to full bodyweight dips. The xc squad use a chair with their feet on the ground when doing circuits away from the gym.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Dave Horsley, thanks, that's about as close as I'm getting. Was hoping for a "brainwave" . Do they find dips helps with XC?
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peura,
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Do they find dips helps with XC?
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No idea, though they appear in the circuits we do occassionally on the Thursday night club sessions. However something is working as two squad members got their FIS points low enough last year to qualify for the worldcup and at least one of them should be racing on the circuit this coming season.
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Dave Horsley, yeah AFAICT you need to give yourself every advantage to do a one armer, I keep meaning to buy a bar as there's nothing substansial enough to do high numbers of reps on in my house. A choice between a piece of wood above the stairs which is about two finger joints in size or door frames. I try and avoid door frame pull ups after popping a tendon doing them with no warm up while drunk on a climbing trip a few years back.
Alternative methods are lock offs: get your arms to 90 degrees and hold for as long as possible or "type writers" wide grip pull ups where you pull to each hand in turn. Don't dangle on straight arms though as it will damage your elbows.
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Swirly, I started on the door frame but stopped for the sake of the door frame  . Now doing them outside with a beam that someone put there.
I guess the one answer with the dips would be rope from the pull up beam.
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peura, depends how big your door frame is! This was a stupidly narrow one although consideration for the frame is important, I know of at least one person who's ripped off the architrave and some of mine have made disconcerting noises.
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Swirly,
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Alternative methods are lock offs: get your arms to 90 degrees and hold for as long as possible or "type writers" wide grip pull ups where you pull to each hand in turn. Don't dangle on straight arms though as it will damage your elbows.
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I've done lockoffs whilst pulling up my knees slowly so the thigh is horizontal. I wanted to be able to go from straight to piked, but my stomach muscles are too weak.
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peura,
I do a fair amount of double poling, but its not the same as lifting your whole body weight multiple times. One reason for improving upper body strength is to improve my double poling. Classic races, particularly on rollers are mainly double pole races.
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Dave Horsley,  yeah, I meant more from an endurance standpoint that a strength one. How are the pullups etc going?
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You know it makes sense.
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I'm on to day 3 week 1 today (pressups) and tommorrow (pullups). No problems so far with the pressups, but I'm already at the limit with the pullups. Had to do 9 to start with yesterday and finished, just, with the minimum of 7. Tomorrow I'll need to start with 10 pullups. It will be interesting to see if I can actually do 10. Still at least I'm getting better. I may skip a few days before the weekend as I'm racing at Durham on saturday - got to do 15km of double poling so don't want to be knackered before I start.
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Disappointed I can't increase on four chinups without a break from last week. Dips seem to be getting easier. Just for curiousity I tried to do as many pressups as I could, 33 was the answer, without any specific training other than doing some every week.
Dave Horsley, did you see the "XC ski" exercise I posted in the "biking lark" thread? I'm not sure it's quite right but it does give me ideas...
15km of double poling  .
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Poster: A snowHead
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ow ow ow ow, week 3 day 1 60 sec rest 25, 17, 17, 15, max (at least 25). Just managed the sets although I don't know how as I was in agony after the first 17. Managed 27 in the max BUT had to take 3 minutes before rather than just the 60 seconds.
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15km of double poling
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Its not so bad, you get three breaks per lap from the double poling, there are two downhills where you can tuck for a while and a steep uphill where you do double pole single kick. I'll probbaly end up having to do diagonal stride up the hill after 4 or 5 laps as I'll start tiring  .
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Last night after the gym I started week 4 - 27, 20, 20, 17, 27
Absolute murder. I managed it but I my whole upper body doesn't like me very much at the moment.
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just completed the last day of week 4 - 30, 22, 22, 20, 40
Felt good but still feel like I am nowhere near making 100
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The_Hirsty,
Your almost half way there at 40, and thats after doing 94 pushups.
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Dave Horsley, Definitely true when you put it like that. I reckon that week 5 will really put me to the test though.
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Megamum, with your plaintive plea hijacked by all these guys doing thousands before breakfast, have you managed to do a pressup yet?
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This thread has gone a bit quiet 
I decided I was happy at 50 and will push on from there with press-ups being a part, rather than a focus, of my exercises. Is anyone on course for the 100? Are you going to post your enormous achievement to a well known video sharing site?
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I had to take a week off due to time restrictions but am commencing week 5 today.
As for posting my acheivment, I'll have to see if I can work the video option on my camera.
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Mon 15-09-08 12:33; edited 1 time in total
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I've had a week off - I raced (15km classic) sunday 7th and this weekend I raced both days, saturday 7.1km free technique and yesterday an 8km hill climb in classic technique. Add to that Ive had a chest infection over the whole period, so the pressups and pull ups got left out. The 15km race was poor in that I took just over 54minutes and would have expected to do it in under 50 minutes normally. The 7.1km race took me just over 27minutes, which, though a bit down on what I'd hope for, was not bad considering the wet and windy conditions. I managed the hill climb in under 40 minutes, so not too bad. If we run it next year I'll aim for under 35 minutes if the conditions are the same. Winning time for the hill race was just over 25 minutes.
I'll try and start week 2 again tonight depending on how knackered I'm feeling after cycling home.
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FAQ
. I'd have thought that by this time your upper body would be quite fit if you do most of your roller skiing double-poling. At least in certain parts 
