Hi all;
I couldn’t find a thread about Aleks Salkin’s 9 minute KB and BW challenge. It is a free challenge with a nice documentation especially for a free content.
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I have no correlation w Aleks Salkin, most probably we will never meet w him in person or even ever talk.
Its’s a challenge that you do some fundamental exercises daily for 9 minutes in total.
I have been doing this challenge for a week now, and I wanted to share my initial observations.
This is a program that fits in to some of SF teaching and principals very well.
It’s in my opinion a very successful minimalist program. The exercises are carefully selected, they don’t tax you at all (you could do any exercise to absolute failure and exhaustion with in 9 minutes but training to exhaustion HIT style is not this program’s intention for obvious reasons to SF followers)
I think there is a magic in it self of daily repeated exercises, especially when you do a select few exercises. Because you see amazing fast progress without even forcing yourself. I believe this is the beauty of minimalist programs. This is not a thread about minimalism, and yes there are many other flows or movement programs that involves much more number of exercises and hence so called cover all your aspects, this one is not trying to be an answer to all your problems. But while not trying to cover everything, it indeeds cover “ a lot “ because let you get polish your most basic moves over and over again without effort.
This program started to improve my fundamental movement patterns and even mobility of my problematic over head shoulder ROM only in a week. If you consider how little effort I put in to it, and I am putting zero brain cells in to it
this is quite an achievement.
Are there any one out there who tried this challenge ? What are your experiences and thoughts on this one.
I think it improves your mobility, the way u
move, and your
strength in a beautiful way.