I'm a 400/800 runner starting college next fall and my summer track workouts call for chinnies and pikes. Does anyone have any idea what these are? Any help would be appreciated thanks!
I'm a 400/800 runner starting college next fall and my summer track workouts call for chinnies and pikes. Does anyone have any idea what these are? Any help would be appreciated thanks!
Why don't you ask the person that gave you the summer track workouts?
on the ground, on your back, bring your knees to your chin while bracing your head.
"Pikes" are also called jackknives or v-ups: on your back, straight legs, straight arms, touch your toes ala the pike position in a dive.
Pikes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ6aTONDOZw
I've seen many different exercises that have been titled "chinnies". Best just to ask the person what they want you to do.
Just so you know chinnies and pikes sound like racial slurs for some reason. I saw that post and i was like that sounds awful.
pretty sure pike is a fish and also a market in seattle, wa.
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Chinese people and "pikeys" (pejorative term for travelers)? I got that impression too...
Chinnies = Chinchilla = rodent.
Pikes = Northern pike = fish.
I'm an expert, so keep 'em coming.
A chinnie is an upper and lower body ab exercise. Knees are bent, feet on floor. Hands are behind the head with elbows out to the side OR fingertips placed on sides of head with elbows forward. As you lift the knees toward your chest, you also do an upper body crunch. You are bringing your chin towards your knees, hence the name 'Chinnie". To make that an even better exercise, after you do your chinnie reps, take your hands away from your head and has you bring the knees and chest together reach down and touch the sides of your feet. Then extend arms and legs out straight. Repeat.
A pike is probably a v-up , which is also an ab exercise where you are balanced just on your butt and you lay back slightly and then raise back up. Or.....another form of a pike is being in a plank, on your elbows and raising up your butt into a pike and then back down again.
I would ask the coach to clarify the pike.
Just watch the movie "Snatch" starring Brad Pitt as a Gypsie bare knuckles boxing champion and you will learn a lot of new words and maybe review a few old ones too. I'm pretty sure "Pikey" is mentioned a few times.