The closure of gyms in 2020 and 2021 to keep everyone “safe” forced many a fat, lazy lifter to plug yawning gaps in their cardiovascular fitness and shed at least some of their buttery mounds.
I should know, because I was one of them.
Here’s the story:
When the mop-headed twonk and his bug-eyed sidekick took away most people’s access to the tools they relied on to stay strong and in shape, I actually didn’t go into a blind panic like a lot of others did.
Oh, sure, I was annoyed. Upset, even. But when you train consistently for a very long time (as I had), you genuinely can’t imagine life without it in some way, shape, or form. And so your mind kicks into gear to figure out a way to make do with what you have.
Which, for me, was a length of old boat rope (a relic from the PT gym I briefly owned before meeting Jess) and a large shared green space featuring a sturdy tree at the back of our damp ridden one-and-a-half bedroom flat.
Not much, but more than many had at that time, I am sure.
However.
Do you recall how I said that I was fat and lazy?
This was a big problem, because when you’re fat all but the most basic bodyweight work is out of the question, and when you are lazy you don’t go running regularly (worsening the “fat” issue and making the high reps needed for effective bodyweight training difficult almost to the point of inaccessibility).
Yet I figured it out, more through sheer brute force and ignorance than any particular ingenuity. Consequently, I made plenty of dumb mistakes that stymied my progress and, bluntly, made the whole affair much more challenging and unpleasant than it needed to be.
Like, for example, trying to do stuff like “every minute on the minute” bodyweight workouts with no regard for my limited cardiovascular capacity.
I still came out the other end in much better shape than when I began, though.
That’s the huge advantage of blending bodyweight training with straightforward, boring cardio – it’s basically impossible to not get into better shape (in both the aesthetic and performance sense) provided you get your head down and do the work.
Anyway.
Part of the bonus content my Bodyweight Buccaneers will get is an exclusive article called “The Lockdown Protocol” which is a refined version I got up to while the creepy mask people called the police on those who didn’t want to partake of their perversion.
It’s towards the back of the Real Paper book I’m sending them which features the complete bodyweight training system they’ll learn and practice during our ten weeks together. (The idea behind sending the book is to make sure clients have all of the information they need to, hopefully, continue getting results many months or maybe even years after we have parted ways.)
If you are interested in becoming a Bodyweight Buccaneer yourself, you will find all of the information about the programme here:
https://philtyreman.co.uk/buccaneer/
Thank you,
Phil Tyreman