bodyweight workout: hollow, arch, and side holds

WARM UP (15 minutes)

- 200m run or 100 jump rope jumps or jumping jacks

- dynamic stretching/range of motion exercises (shoulder circles, vertical and horizontal arm swings, torso rotations, forward and side to side torso bends, forward-back and side to side leg swings)

- 8 each of: forward lunges, squats, regular pushups, bench dips, goodmornings, v-ups/crunches

SPECIFIC WARM UP (5-10 minutes):

hollow, arch, and side holds

Practice and study the hollow, arch, and side crunch holds for 3-5 minutes.

Perform 3-5 rounds of the following:

- 15 second hollow body hold

- 15 second arch hold

- 15 second side crunch hold - left

- 15 second side crunch hold - right

WOD (Workout of the Day, 5-10 minutes)

21-15-9 rep rounds, for time:

- pyramid push ups

- bench dips

- regular push ups

(If you can do less than 10 push ups in 1 straight set, then you can reduce the reps to 11-8-5, or 7-5-3.

Make sure you do keep an active core throughout the WOD, body slightly hollowed on regular and pyramid push ups.)