Football Epilogue

One of the best lifts a person can do.

I guess I am gaining a little traction, but losing a little patience at the gym. I'm missing a true free weight area and cardio is just feeling like it's taking too long. From my last post  I mentioned an old high intensity workout I've had some success with. Short, intense workouts. The only dilemma is it is a 6-day workout and doing it right means lots of fatigue initially, but I think I'll give it another try with a couple small modifications: Cardio days get priority and supplant lifting days if missed Add tummy time to cardio days after getting sweaty Moderate lower body workout intensity to save knees and back Not beat myself up for missing a workout I'd like to generate and post some spreadsheets for the workout to have on the site as a repository. I guess I'll list that as "coming soon to a mediocre blog near you". Diet-wise, the weekend was tough with having a mom's day family thing coupled with a birthday celebration for my sist...

I had a friend post something today about showing up a guy in her Bodypump  fitness class doing lunges . It quickly brought back to my mind my few humbling experiences with Bodypump, and group fitness classes. Bodypump is a combination strength training and cardio fitness class focusing on supersets and combination lifts in a near continuous, highly repetitive nature. Upon moving to MN the wife and I joined the local YMCA. She was big into the fitness classes so I decided, moreso agreed, to try a Bodypump class with her. It proved to be an excellent workout, but in the first class my "football ego" got in the way a bit. I had adequate strength and endurance to make it through the cleans, rows and such. ...then came lunges. I remember loading up on the weight and doing my big guy show of brute leg strength thing. Part way through the workout the trainer singled me out and told me that I was "doing it all wrong" and to lower my weights. This put me at a weight l...

2.5 Mile run, Super Set (SS) Assisted Pull-ups/Body weight squats Dips SS Bent-over Dumb-bell rows/side bends/lunges I think throwing in the lower body stuff in the SS's had me feeling a little funny.