Hammer And Burpee Combo For A Conditioning Recipe

 Experimenting different things can be fun and it makes you work your brain. If anything, experimenting with different combinations can make your training interesting. With the resurgence of Hammer Workouts since I got the Stronger Grip Tactical Sledgehammer, I mainly use it to do a couple variations of the Sledge Strike and as a form of training like the Mace. 

Conditioning is just a favorite of mine and doing what's possible to keep myself from being bored. I use decks of cards for high reps in my hammer workouts ranging from 100 to about under 600 these days. I also do my supersets to make things interesting instead of always doing one exercise or one variation at times but I don't always combine 2 exercises as if it was one thing that's blended. 

One of my biggest inspirations is Bud Jeffries and his constant encouragement to experiment and making workouts look amazingly awesome. His creativity and simplicity just builds you up and makes you want to do things you've never done before. One of them is through his Sledgehammer Course which you can find here....The amount of exercises being shown is just the tip of an enormous iceberg of ideas and training modalities that take on a life of its own at times. I saw a demo he did on Youtube where he took a sledgehammer and combined it with striking and a burpee. I wanted to give this a shot.

I don't have any real experience with this combination so it does look awkward from a certain point of view but I don't care, I wanted to give it a chance and put it on film. Since I got the hammer with the San Francisco Giants logo, I also wanted to just have fun and make videos of my workouts while decking out in my Giants Shirt (Willie Mays #24) and my hat on Tik Tok and adding heavy metal to them. I have even added them to the baseball pages on Twitter like the Giants and the MLB, it felt exciting to do that. It's not something you see people do often, talk about being a Super Fan.

That's the beauty of training is that you can do all sorts of stuff and have fun. I love training at home or anywhere, the gym can be great but it's really just a building, you can create a gym anywhere if you have the right mindset and basic understanding of exercises. Since getting the hammer, I feel my condition has gotten better, gaining speed, my grip is getting stronger, putting on some muscle and gaining power in my tendons. Although it's just a tool in reality but in my imagination (and anyone who's worked out with hammers can relate to this), it's a tool of the gods that grants me strength that I didn't know I had before and makes me work harder to make the most of what is possible.