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Powerlifting Style Workouts at the Park

Simple ideas to get you going:

Basic idea

The basic idea is this:

Go for a ‘one rep max’ styled workout — the most difficult maneuver you can do (once).

For example:

  1. Rock toss (clean and jerk style, or sumo deadlift style), or see how far you can toss the rock
  2. Muscle up
  3. Rings muscle up (or progression on some sort of box)
  4. Planche (I am working up to planche on the bar)

Muscle up to planche

Jump to muscle up for rings (then dips with legs up)

Rock Toss Challenge

Rings workout (wrist strengthening, upside down, abs workout):

ERIC KIM ROCK POWERLIFTING PARK WORKOUT
ERIC KIM RINGS MUSCLE UP PROGRESSION DIPS WORKOUT
MUSCLE UP AND PLANCHE PROGRESSION

My Muscle Philosophy:

Treat your body as sculpture.

This is not my body

The first thing:

I don’t see my body as belonging to me. I look at my body like it belongs to someone else.

When I look at the Lamborghini of someone else, I admire it. When I see the muscles and physiques of anyone else, I admire it. Then I had the epiphany:

Why not transform my own body into a Lambo, and admire my own body instead?

The logic

The great logic:

  1. It is far cheaper to get buff than to buy a Lambo.
  2. The human body is the apex beauty. This means your personal goal in life should be to beautify your own personal body to the maximum (without plastic surgery, steroids, etc).
  3. Ultimate democratic approach: Genetics doesn’t matter. Sex doesn’t matter. Racial ethnicity doesn’t matter. Anyone can both add muscle mass and subtract fat.
  4. It doesn’t cost much to get ripped. Just intermittent fast [no breakfast, no lunch], one big ass meal a day, and mostly a ‘ketogenic’ diet.
  5. Your body is always with you. Why not beautify your body to inspire yourself?

The joy of sculpting your own body

To sculpt your own body is insanely fun. Why? You can see the change over time!

Once again, the goal is simple:

Never stop adding muscle mass, and never stop reducing body fat, or keeping it low (around 10%).

Muscle and your body is highly practical.

The more muscle you have, the more energy you got. The more power you got to make art-work, and live with gratitude, joy, and hyper-vigor.

Strengthen on, and flex on!

ERIC

MUSCLE 101

  1. The Philosophy of Bodybuilding
    YOUR BODY IS YOUR BANK ACCOUNT
  2. WHY I WORKOUT AT THE PARK
  3. How to Strengthen Your Rotator Cuff
  4. In Praise of Rings Workout
  5. How to Workout at the Park
  6. Why I Don’t Eat Breakfast or Lunch (In Praise of One Huge Dinner Meal a Day)
  7. HOW TO LOVE YOUR BODY
  8. Is Working Out at the Park Superior to Working Out at the Gym?
  9. Why I Workout
  10. WHY PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOULD WORKOUT
  11. How to Increase Your Testosterone
  12. My Workout Philosophy
  13. How Appearance Matters
  14. How I Workout at Home
  15. My Philosophy of Food
  16. The Best Park Workouts
  17. How to Quit Sugar
  18. How to Workout in the Streets and Park
  19. How Much Meat Can You Eat in a Day?
  20. APEX MALE MASCULINITY
    HOW I WORKOUT AT THE PARK
  21. How to Lose Fat
  22. How I Became Stronger and Buffer and More Swole During and After Quarantine
  23. What is Skinny-Fat?
  24. In Praise of Working Out at the Park
  25. Why Meat is Good
  26. Flesh over Metal
  27. Why Lower Your Bodyfat?
  28. How to Augment Your Recovery
  29. Increase Intensity, not Reps
  30. My Park Workout
  31. How to Fast
  32. HOW I WORKOUT FROM THE PARK
  33. How I Got So Swole
  34. Pure Power or Sculpture?
  35. How to Workout in the Streets
  36. How to Workout At Home With No Equipment
  37. Super Saiyan is the Goal
  38. MY POWERLIFTING PHILOSOPHY
  39. MY EXERCISE/WORKOUT PHILOSOPHY
  40. What if Mood Originates in the Stomach and Gut? Digestion Health
  41. Why I Don’t Consume Protein Powder or Supplements
  42. Real vs Fake // Natural vs Unnatural
  43. You Can’t Fake Strength
  44. How to Grow Your Muscles
  45. How to Add Muscle and Subtract Fat at the Same Time
  46. ERIC KIM BODY MUSCLE FLEX
  47. Don’t Build Muscle, Build Strength.
  48. Visual Kinesthesia: Muscles and Art
  49. How to Maximize Muscle Growth and Fat Loss