21 Pilots is actually awesome. They have some very unique approaches to song writing. I used to be into guitar playing and I liked playing stuff like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson. I always enjoyed the challenge and theory behind it all.
But I also really appreciate how some people can be technically simple yet so powerful. Tom Petty comes to mind. Rob Thomas. 21 Pilots has a place on that list even if it isn't quite iconic.
"Screen" is a great song.
Nice, those are some great guitarists for sure! I never learned to play an instrument, I was in choir most of my short school career though.
Yeah, although I would say they are becoming pretty iconic, time will tell with them. I definitely wouldn't call them technically simple though. Although they have some folk rock stuff they have a lot of really big intricate production too with their pseudo rap and what not. The singer surprised me with the variety of instruments he played.
Tom Petty... make me mourn a bit why don't ya!
Had a hell of a workout last night.
Warm Up / Conditioning was body weight resistance focusing on joint, and muscle control.
This is going to sound a bit weird but that is okay, it felt so good to do. I got on the floor for my upper body warm up drills, and had some really good tunes on. I started doing all of my shoulder rolls, and angry cat / camels and the like and it felt really good. Then a song with a banging beat came on in the middle of it while I was resting on all fours and I just kind of started moving to the music a bit. I actually like to dance so while I was down there on all fours I noticed that as i did some of that the resistance from my body weight turned everything I was doing down there into a form of resistance training. So I just went with it. I was doing all kinds of things to the music, just feeling how my body moved and making myself control all the contractions from so many angles, even did things to get the legs a lot more involved. So basically I spent about 20 minutes kind of planking, push ups, seal pushups, shoulder, angry cat / camels and body rolls, 1 arm shoulder rolls, pike walkouts, pike extensions, the list goes on and on. I tried to keep my knees off the ground pretty much the whole time to keep resistance high.
By the time I finished 20 minutes of that I was already dripping sweat and pretty much had a full body pump!
Complex 1 - reps were dropped on sets as I fatigued more in order to stay in a range I had full control and joint stability, then I stopped at the first sign of pain in the shoulder. The tweak was minimal but I wasn't pushing it. Tempos were kept very controlled on concentric, and slow on the negative.
Ring Push Ups - 15, 15, 12, 9, 8, 6, 1 - shoulder tweaked at beginning of last set
Mixed Grip Pull ups - 6, 6, 6, 5, 5, 4, 3 - 1 second pause at top - these got real hard due to the fatigue from the shouldering.
Sand Bag Shouldering with 100lb homemade sandbag - alternated right and left shoulder with each rep -
12, 10, 10, 8, 8, 8, 6 - Holy Crap these kicked my ass!!!!
I was DRENCHED when this was over!
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Complex 2 - 60 lbs all exercise - slow tempo, focusing on quality of contraction - No Rest 5 rounds RPE9
Pec Deck FLies - 30ish, 25ish, 25ish, 20ish, 15ish
Overhead Cable triceps Extensions - 25ish, 20ish x2 set, 15ish x2 sets
Cable Curls w/ exaggerated ROM - 15ish x 2 sets, 12, 10, 9 - negative was taken to a hyperextension and flexed triceps, concentric was curled to max contraction then shoulder raised 2 inches to completely shorten the biceps all the way.
TRX / Ring Alphabet - I=15, Y=15, T=15 x 2 sets
Here I am as a nice sweaty mess at the end.
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