Good grief. Sounds like the same thing that happened to Brandon Lilly.
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Good grief. Sounds like the same thing that happened to Brandon Lilly.
Saw a guy running on the sidewalk on my way to work this morning. He was running backwards, which was obviously to work on his footwork. How do I know this? Because he was wearing boxing shoes and boxing gloves.
today's update
A guy 1/8th squating the shit out of 225 lbs.
His hips probably moved up and down a total of 3 inches, maybe 4 if one were generous.
He was also looking at the lights/ceilling.
I saw my first real California front squat or whatever you call it with your hands crossed in front of the bar.
Years ago there was a guy in Kansas City who ran backwards for MILES. I used to see him on the reg; heard he was from Nigeria. I have a friend who finished the last quarter of the Western States 100 running backwards because he pulled something. There is no quit in that man, and I mean zero.
Hell. I ate just one meal in 24 hours, and at about 22:00 in the night, got the itch and decided to hit the gym. Wife says she thought I'd eaten too little, but that I looked like I had made up my mind.
First set went well enough. Got three reps on the second,took a minute's break and went for the remaining. Couldn't come out of the hole, tried putting it down on the safeties, missed one of them and got crushed.
Fuck.
You say that like we all hadn't just assumed that was the case.
American football players, particularly defensive backs, do this too. It's probably more effective in training coordination (so you don't trip over your own feet) than it is in actually increasing the "backwards speed" one is capable of.
And naturally, hockey players have to practice skating backwards to the point that it's as natural as skating forward.
1.) Men don't backpedal. Backpedaling is for DBs, the amalgamation of flopping sissies in the NBA, and Communists.
2.) Practice, backpedaling, and occasionally. Have you been drinking?