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Alicia picked 6 maximum strength exercises that increase in the level of difficulty through adding components of coordination/balance and both large and small muscle groups as the rest time decreased. She had 9 minutes of rest after her first exercise and less than 2 minutes of rest before her last exercise.
Alicia’s 2nd -5th exercises were meant to wear her out a little and make the last minute of ring dips challenging. Alicia says, “I did a set of 35 consective pull-ups then 30 consecutive chin-ups followed by 11 handstand pushups in a minute (where head comes to floor each rep) and finally the hardest type of dip – ring L position dips. Consecutive exercises are very taxing on the muscles and then the handstand pushups and ring L dips are the most challenging of all these exercises with their elements of balance and use of large and small muscle groups.”
Whenever I wasn’t exercising as a kid, I would kick back with a book on world record setting athletes and I would get enraptured. I knew very early on I would be a world record setting athlete. My doctor grandfather met many of the great athletes I read about and he shared stories with me. He was a gastroenterologist that wrote for the American Medical Association and he also knew that I would be a world record holder one day. He had me be strict with my eating and exercise as he prepared me for a life of discipline and dedication to my passion —sports.
I was inspired most to read about the athletes of the 1920’s – 1960’s that overcame so much to set records and achieve extraordinary athletic achievements. The athletes of those days had to overcome war times, family and personal strife, and the Great Depression. Today, I am now a world record setting athlete in many record books including…
I hold over 25 world records in strength, speed, and endurance. From February 6, 2010 – March 9, 2010, I set 11 world records and 2 rare strength feats covering all 5 areas of physical fitness.
Muscular Strength and Endurance: I started my world record rampage by re-setting my former 1 hour pullup world record by more than 150 reps for 721 reps an hour(enroute to re-setting my 30-minute WR) on February 6, 2010. I then re-set my 1 minute, 3 minute, and 1 hr chin up world records. In early March I became the 1st Woman to set an endurance 1-Arm Pushup World Record by completing 105 reps in 10-minutes. See here for Official Pullup/Chinup and Pushup World Record Results. One Arm Pushups
Traveling Trainer & Edutainer | MySpace Video Cardiovascular Strength and Endurance: During high school an easy day would be jump rope running around the track 25 times for 10,000 meters. I would use a light weight speed jump rope. The jump rope endurance training prepared me to set records and compete on the National level during high school in events from 800m -10,000m runs with U.S.A Track and Field. I started in 7th grade and my best event was the 400m( I qualified for the 1996  Junior Olympic National Championship in that event) but didn’t compete as I focused on my distance running and became a National Champion in distance running. Today, I started with the 400m jump rope track run and set a world record using a weighted 1.5lbs jump rope on February 21, 2010. I then set 2 more jump rope world records with the weighted 1.5lbs jump rope in single-foot rope skipping for 30-seconds and 3-minutes. Visit Alicia’s myspace to watch jump rope videos.
Flexibility and Abdominal Strength and Endurance: On February 17, 2010, I completed 17 consecutive reps of Ring Dips in 1-minute to set a world record. The ring dips were done in a difficult way to add the elements of both flexibility and abdominal strength and endurance in with the exercise. I kept my legs in L-Feat position with my legs perpendicular to my torso. *The hardest type of ring dips are where the legs are held straight out and parallel to the ground – those are officially called “Ring L Dips”. Double Screen Showing of 17 Ring Dips
Note:Â I also set an abdominal endurance world record on September 26, 2009 where I did 613 situps (legs held down, hands behind ears, elbows must touch lateral knee each time for rep to count) in 30-minutes.
 Balance and Stability: From March 6 – 9, 2010, I did a variety of strength/balance pushups for records on 2 and 3 med balls measuring 22 cm diameter. I did 35 reps of pushups while balancing on 3 med balls for an official world record. I then did 2 other types of balance/strength pushups that observers described as “rare and difficult”. These 2 other pushups were completed on 2 and 3 med balls with an elevated leg. Due to the specialization and rare nature of these 2 types of pushups, they were not officially published in the current record books. However, they may be entered in a future record book. Med ball balance exercises are very common to Olympic Kayakers. As a K-1 sprint kayaker, I need to constantly challenge my balance in order to become a better and stronger kayaker, since the sport at the highest level is about being able to balance on such a skinny, tippy boat. Here are highlights of the 2 types of rare and difficult medicine ball pushups.Â
Outside of world record setting, I compete in 10-sports as an elite athlete and I am a fitness trainer. Some of my sports include sprint kayak, triathlon, trail and mountain distance running, track and field, rowing, road racing, time trial bike racing, open water swimming, and stand up paddle boarding. I have published a book on physical fitness and it is available online here.
Alicia Weber combines her athletic and strength talents with her entertainment /comedy abilities to create “fitness comedy†at AliciaWeber.com/shows . Not only has she been an elite athlete for 15 years with 30 world records, but she has been an entertainer. It was very common for Alicia to compete as an athlete in the AM and then perform into the wee hours of the night as one (or sometimes up to 3) of her characters at National Championships like the Collegiate Triathlon National Championship.
She has created and performed as 9 different characters (male, female, and animal roles). One of her popular characters with athletes has been Coach Johnny Deltoid – the obsessed, eccentric, and old track coach. He stars in her newly released show “World Record Weber Challenges Coach Deltoid in AM Strength Workout.â€
Alicia “World Record†Weber will be performing maximum strength feats, extremely difficult and rare strength exercises all while challenging her coach to consider strength training over running for once. After all, Coach Deltoid has been around the track far too many times and he needs to change things up. The coach shows resistance in this 10-minute show and he tries to hold World Record Weber back from the Ultimate – 1 Arm 1 Finger (and thumb) Pushup.
Will she meet her Ultimate Goal?? Well, of course, but she goes through some obstacles to break away from the obsessed track coach. The real question is…Will she get Coach Deltoid to love strength training?
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Let me introduce you to 3 of the natural female strength athletes on Videoteasing.com …
Catalina Calisthenics was a runner turned thrower on the track team and she has strength feats that will throw you! Catalina is a lithe, limber, Southern Belle that is very sweet, but in competitive mode – LOOK OUT! She performed a strength show in Las Vegas, NV, and didn’t want to leave Las Vegas or her hotel room! She loved it so much! She decided to arm wrestle the next guest for the hotel room (you can see part of that arm wrestling match below). She is most known for her exciting arm wrestling and bicep flexing! Visit Catalina directly at www.videoteasing.com/catcali.htm
Due to recent requests by my fans, I made a 10-minute non-stop sit-up video (shown above) where the sit-ups get increasingly more difficult as time goes by. Sit-up endurance is definitely a measure of many muscles not just the Abs. For one, a strong back is needed to sustain endurance and proper form in sit-ups. Proper form is defined as legs bent and held down, arms bent and immovable with fingers placed above the ears. Chin is away from the chest with a forward head placement.
For a rep to count – medial elbow on both arms must cross the lateral knee on both legs (back is perpendicular to ground at apex of situp) and then the lower back must flatten and touch floor. This is how to perform proper form situps for fitness tests.
A weak, sore, and fatigued back will be the first to give out during sit-ups. The bending of the knees make the abdominal muscles work more as the upward pull of the torso from lying position to the bent knees involves the following abdominal muscles and other muscle groups:
1.)    The first 30-45 degrees (lifting the shoulder blades off the ground with full compression of the rectus abdominis m. ) involves external and internal obliques muscles acting like a corset as they tighten and flex around the rib cage. The rectus abdominis m. is compressed.
2.)   Then moving from 45 degrees to full sit (where medial elbows touch lateral knees) are where the hip flexors become involved in the pull to sit and there is a high compressive load placed on the lumbar spine (where back extensor muscle strength is important or else one could risk injury). In the initial pull phase, the hip flexors can lift the trunk from a lying posture toward the front of the leg in a sit-up. These hip flexors include the iliacus m. and psoas major m. (flexes and laterally rotates thigh), tensor fascia lata m. (an abductor), and the pectineus m. (an adductor). Then, the rectus femoris m. and sartorius m. join in as they are the only muscles in the quadriceps muscle group involved as hip flexors. They originate at the pelvis and are involved with leg flexion as the hip crosses the pelvic femoral joint.
3.)   Going from full sit to about 45 degrees down the hip flexors are once again involved as well as the abdominal stabilizing muscles. The tensor fascia lata m. assists with abduction, internal rotation, and flexion of the hip, as well as trunk stabilization. *Controlling the back and maintaining proper posture are key especially in this phase (you don’t want to just fall back!!). The back extensor muscles (mainly the erector spinae and multifidus muscles) are the main source for posterior stability for the spine and they oppose the force of gravity as they maintain erect posture and control forward flexion during a sit-up.
4.)   Finally from 45 degrees down to flattening of the back on the ground, the rectus abdominis m. goes from flexion to full length extension. The rectus abdominis m. is a long abdominal muscle that begins at the pubis with the muscle fibers extending vertically and attaching to the cartilages of the fifth, sixth, and seventh ribs (on the front part of the trunk).
Are Sit-ups really a good exercise and why do them? Sit-ups are not a good exercise for everybody. As stated in the 3rd paragraph, sit-ups are a No-No for anyone with any kind of back problem or back weakness. Sit-ups are excellent exercise for a regular exerciser that does regular abdominal exercise and back strengthening exercises. Endurance sit-ups are a good challenge for hip flexors, back, and abdominal muscle groups. Although the emphasis should be abdominals with minimal hip flexor muscles working as in proper form sit-ups shown here. Sit-ups can cover the full length of the rectus abdominis muscle in a way that can’t be achieved in a crunch or ab curl, or other (low back held down) ab exercise.   Your rectus abdominis m. and back should feel really stretched out, relaxed, and strengthened after sit-ups if you are conditioned and doing them properly.
