American Ninja Warrior Training Leads To Ninja Warrior Gear

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Learn The All New American Ninja Warrior Training
Tips And Techniques

• In 2009 the G4 network began airing "American
  Ninja Warrior," inspired by the Japanese show
  "Sasuke.
• The show had a simple premise make it across a
  series of athletically challenging obstacles
  without falling.
• Each week, viewers were mesmerized by athletes
  who managed to traverse seemingly impossible
  obstacles, and were amazed by the imaginative
  minds who created these structures on some
  maniacal ninja drawing board.
• In its third season it became so popular that NBC
  picked it up to air on primetime TV.

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American Ninja Warrior Training Leads To Ninja
Warrior Gear

• You won't find many American ninja warrior
  training pumping heavy iron.
• They prefer bodyweight training and calisthenics.
  
• There's one exercise in particular ninjas have in
  common with the average gym trainer the pull-up.
• As one ninja put it, "If you can't easily pull up
  your own body weight, you have no business on the
  course."

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• Ninjas perform endless sets of every variety of
  pull-up including pronated (overhand), supinated
  (underhand), neutral (palms facing each other),
  and vertical grips from cylinders and ropes, as
  well as fingertip pull-ups from boards and rock
  wall climbing holds.
• One thing you'll never see is a ninja using his
  wrist straps to aid his grip.
• Their ability to grab and hold on to various
  shapes is essential, and diverse forms of
  bare-handed pull-ups will build that essential
  dexterity.

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American ninja warrior training also like other
bodyweight moves

• Like push-ups and dips to round out their
  upper-body strength.
• The courses also require ninjas to have plenty of
  quick leg power to propel them forward and
  upward.
• To build this type of explosive strength, most
  ninjas perform dynamic movements like sprints and
  squat jumps.

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• The average size of a successful American ninja
  warrior training is about 5-foot-8 and 155
  poundsnot large by any meansbut there are
  exceptions.
• At 6-foot-4 and 205 pounds, Rob Moravsky was one
  of the largest to make it through the qualifying
  round.
• Rob says his height was both a blessing and a
  curse. "I definitely had a reach advantage, but
  some of the obstacles hang pretty low, and I
  remember having to crunch up to keep from
  touching the water. Even if your shoelace breaks
  the surface you're disqualified.
• Rob is a personal trainer who came from a basic
  bodybuilding background.

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