Here’s your five minute ring workout. You can start with your rings high. And then we will move them low. A lot of variations that work a variety of muscles.

That’s right, part animal, part machine. Part chilly, part cold. Thank you, Henry Rollins. We’ve been doing some push-ups. Now, you can do your chest push-up workout with rings.

Here’s your five minute ring workout. You can start with your rings high. Boom, you come up. You hold your body. You do a nice dip. You pause. You come back up. Think that’s easy. Think again.

Then, kick your legs up, bring them back, move them, and then down. Repeat. That’s upper. Just getting up here, holding your body, swimming out like this, hopping up… just practicing that works your whole upper torso.

We here at the Hanzo Ranch and Research Utility Muffin Kitchen feel that you should implement these on a daily basis. Now, we’re going to go way down. We’re going to bring the band on down behind me, boys.

Gary, right at this time, this would be good if we had incidental theme music. Maybe, could you hum? That’s enough, thank you. Now, a variation on more push-ups that are even more intense and more cardiovascular. Mr. Camera, I want to be able to maybe get a side shot. I’m not sure. Let’s see how that looks.

We’re going to get into a pushup position, and then we’re going to do a little mini swimming technique. See that. All core, shoulders, triceps, then down and then up. Let me tell, that little move, whew! That’s a bad apple.

The idea is, first, you start on your knees, get this rotation going. Or, you could go reverse, swim back, swim back. Although, I don’t know how you would actually swim like that. You would drown. That’s called drowning.

Drown backwards, then start practicing. Hey, [laughs] granola. Hold your body up, then start with little circles, and then get them bigger and bigger, each side. This looks so simple on camera but, man, that’s a lot of work. I’m exhausted. We’ve already had a workout and now we’re filming.

The other thing is without doing a pushup, you can still get the benefits of core training and a pushup by staying on your knees, then extending your body out, way out, and then way back.

Breathe in. Exhale, hold and then back. Then, as you get better, you can do it with your feet up. Oh my, out to the side, forward, stuff like that. These are hard! Let’s say you’re a really, really super athlete and I know most of you are because you watch our blog, so you get all the really good stuff.

You put your rings really low. How low? Limbo low. How low can you go? What you’re going to do is put one hand on the cement or your carpet or the dog, if the dog refuses to move, and then get that just off the ground.

Then, you’re going to do a push-up where you extend your amount and bring it back in. Oh yes, out, up. That’s a nightmare. You’ll enjoy that. The most important thing to remember when you’re doing the rings is start slow. That sounds so lame doesn’t it? But you need to start slow. Use your head. Don’t fall on your head. That’s right. Go, Henry Rollins, “Search and Destroy.”

That’s it. We’ll be back next week with fabulous things for you to learn. Go away.