Hocevar Performance

I write this 6 days and 7 years after my trip to New York to attend Junior College upstate (Binghampton) and play basketball. It’s a long time since then but at times it doesn’t feel that long…….

For those not feeling like calculating, my first day of college was going to be September 11th 2001. I never made it to school that day as my plane was in the air and ready to land 20 minutes after the 9/11 attacks happened (for those that lost loved one’s - THEY WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN). Without describing all the chaos…..my plane ended up landing in Nova Scotia where I stayed around a week in a military camp before being set to go to New York on a bus. That was the beginning of my college experience in the United States and believe me it was only the beginning!

I will tell more life stories later and only if you’re interested. Seriously though, New York grew on me and it is till this day one of my favorite cities in the world (and I’ve been many places). It brings back many memories some bad, some good, but all of them just part of the dough that makes Luka Hocevar. I am glad to be back and at the same time attending Ryan Lee’s Bootcamp which is a fitness event with some of the best people in the industry speaking on a variety of topics (there’s tons going on).

So while in Queens, NY, waiting to pick up my brother from the airport (he is coming to the seminar with me), I drove by a park with some monkey bars and couldn’t resist not getting in a quick workout. To top it all off the sun was out and it was in the high 80’s, it felt like back in my college days when we would play basketball on the courts around the city. On this day my partner in crime was Jeff Jowers who brought his TRX system with him (we will be writing an article for strengthcoach.com about or use and programming with the TRX system), which made for a little extra spice in the training.

TRX is a great tool for working out anywhere……it also useful for hmmm (use your imagination)

Here is our workout:

- Bulgarian Squats on TRX x 10 reps/each leg

- Suspended Push Ups on TRX x 20 reps

- Roll Outs on TRX x 12 reps

- Face Pulls w/ TRX x 15 reps

Going through the circuit for 20 mins straight and then finishing off with a 100 varied chin ups/pull ups (sets of 4 with 10-15 seconds break in between sets). This was a great workout and it gave me crazy good energy!

Ruff Ryder workout…….whether you get it or not!

I love New York! I also tend to get my Brooklyn accent back when I hang around the city……….

One thing I was dissapointed about was not having enough time to visit Joe Defranco’s gym (one of my biggest influences in strength training). I hope I will be able to make it before I leave back for Seattle!