{"id":2918,"date":"2023-08-17T17:10:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/menshealth\/workout-of-the-week-34-explosive-power\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T17:10:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T17:10:13","slug":"workout-of-the-week-34-explosive-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/menshealth\/workout-of-the-week-34-explosive-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Workout of the Week #34: explosive power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe to the Men&#8217;s Fitness YouTube channel for our weekly Workouts of the Week, posted every Monday throughout 2015: &lt;a <!--more--> href=&#8221;http:\/\/bit.ly\/SsJ3yU&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;nofollow&#8221;&gt;http:\/\/bit.ly\/SsJ3yU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Burn fat and build muscle with our weekly gym challenge. Workout of the Week #34<\/p>\n<p>Take on your Men&#8217;s Fitness workout of the week, a new 52-part series to keep you inspired and challenged for 2015. We&#8217;ll post a new workout every Monday and for an added incentive, we&#8217;ll take on the workout too so you can see how your best time compares with a member of the MF team.<\/p>\n<p>Workout of the Week #34<\/p>\n<p>Complete four rounds of this circuit as fast as you can:<br \/>\n&#8211; 8 30kg barbell thrusters<br \/>\n&#8211; 6 ballistic pull-ups<br \/>\n&#8211; 4 box jumps<\/p>\n<p>Ballistic pull-ups form guide:<br \/>\nFocus on pulling up as powerfully as you can so that you can momentarily take your hands off the pull-up bar with each rep. These take a lot of power and energy so it could be easier to do them in singles or doubles. If this is too hard, swap them for wide-grip pull-ups instead. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the video, take on the challenge and post your best score in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p>MF&#8217;s par score: 6 min<\/p>\n<p>This workout was shot at The Athlete Centre in Oxford. Check out our Workout of the Week YouTube playlist for more gym challenges: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1IVE3de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1IVE3de<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click here for our workout of the week playlist: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1IVE3de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1IVE3de<\/a><br \/>\nClick here for our home workout playlist: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1IuOhji\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1IuOhji<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the Men&#8217;s Fitness UK channel: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SsJ3yU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/SsJ3yU<\/a><br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/on.fb.me\/YuLiD6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/on.fb.me\/YuLiD6<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/17GFKXR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/17GFKXR<\/a><br \/>\nHang with us on Google+: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/16btlqP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/16btlqP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Men&#8217;s Fitness magazine is the UK&#8217;s best fitness lifestyle magazine, helping you live your life fitter, healthier and happier #FitForLife<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe to the Men&#8217;s Fitness YouTube channel for our weekly Workouts of the Week, posted every Monday throughout 2015: &lt;a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mens-fitness-workout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/menshealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/menshealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/menshealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/menshealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/menshealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/menshealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/menshealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/menshealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/menshealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/menshealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}