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Health Habits Workout – Week 21 – Day 2
Alright… it’s your second time through with this workout – time to push just a little bit harder And now on to the…. WARMUP . Feel free to make changes to the warm-up. The goal is to get all your joints lubed up and your muscles warm. How you do it doesn’t really matter. I [...]
Health Habits Workout – Week 21 – Day 1
Workout Goals: Week 21 is a repeat of week 19. You have done these workouts before, so there isn’t any learning curve to slow you down. Before you think about increasing the weight or reps, I want you to push yourself to cut your rest periods even shorter. During supersets, go from exercise to exercise [...]
Health Habits Workout – Week 20 – Day 3
Workout Goals: Alright, workout #3 Let’s get to work…. WARMUP Feel free to substitute warm-up exercises. The goal of the warm-up is to get your joints to release your natural joint lubrication (synovial fluid) and to warm up your muscles. The individual exercises don’t matter. I chose these exercises because I think they are very [...]
Health Habits Workout – Week 20 – Day 2
Workout Goals: Alright, workout #2 – have fun! Let’s get to it…. WARMUP Feel free to substitute warm-up exercises. The goal of the warm-up is to get your joints to release your natural joint lubrication (synovial fluid) and to warm up your muscles. The individual exercises don’t matter. I chose these exercises because I think [...]
Health Habits Workout – Week 20 – Day 1
Workout Goals: Alright, you’ve completed the first week of this phase. 5 weeks to go. good luck Let’s get to it…. WARMUP Feel free to substitute warm-up exercises. The goal of the warm-up is to get your joints to release your natural joint lubrication (synovial fluid) and to warm up your muscles. The individual exercises [...]
Health Habits Workout – Week 19 – Day 3
Workout Goals: This is the last resistance workout for this week. You have another 3-5 weeks to melt of a ton of body-fat via a variety of different HIIT / HIRT workouts. And now on to the…. WARMUP . Feel free to make changes to the warm-up. The goal is to get all your joints lubed up [...]
Health Habits Workout – Week 19 – Cardio / HIIT Workouts
Goal: More fat loss Equipment: Anything you want…go running/jogging, ride a bike or use any of the cardio equipment in your gym…exercise bike, treadmill, elliptical, stepper… Warm-Up 10 min gradually increasing the intensity level to a point that is approx. 60% of your maximum intensity (100% is a full out sprint) The Workout Do as [...]
HIIT turns Fat Men into Fit Men
Take 10 sedentary & overweight/obese men. Weigh them, measure them, test their blood. Throw them onto a electromagnetically braked cycle ergometer (exercise bike). Subject them to 2 weeks / 6 sessions of 4 to 6 repeats of 30-second Wingate aerobic sprints with a 4 1/2 minute recovery period. RESULTS Oxygen Uptake – improved Athletic Performance [...]
Health Habits Workout – Week 19 – Day 2
Workout Goals: The next 4 – 6 weeks are all about maximum fat loss via a variety of different HIIT / HIRT workouts. And now on to the…. WARMUP . Feel free to make changes to the warm-up. The goal is to get all your joints lubed up and your muscles warm. How you do it doesn’t [...]
Health Habits Workout – Week 19 – Day 1
Workout Goals: The next 4 – 6 weeks are all about maximum fat loss via a variety of different HIIT / HIRT workouts. There will be some new exercises, but for the most part, the focus on these workouts should be all about intensity, short rest periods and pushing yourselves harder than is humanly possible. [...]
What the #%&*@ is the Insanity workout?
Has anyone out there tried this workout? I saw the infomercial last night, and based on the success of their P90X program, I am guessing that this workout is selling a bazillion copies per day. Based upon the claims in the infomercial, I think I have a pretty good idea what the workout is going [...]
Health Habits Workout-Week 16/Day 1
Goals: We’re back to the HIIT/HIRT phase of the workout. The goals for this phase are Fat Loss / Aerobic Endurance / Anaerobic Endurance / Improved Joint Mobility / Correct Typical Muscular Imbalances (reduce neck & lower back pain) And remember, the success of this phase of the workout relies on three things: 1.Keeping good [...]
Health Habits Workout-Week 13/Day 1
Goals: We’re back to the HIIT/HIRT phase of the workout. The goals for this phase are Fat Loss / Aerobic Endurance / Anaerobic Endurance / Improved Joint Mobility / Correct Typical Muscular Imbalances (reduce neck & lower back pain) And remember, the success of this phase of the workout relies on three things: 1.Keeping good [...]
The New U.S. Army Basic Combat Training designed to create “Warrior Athletes”
The next generation of U.S. Army soldier will be exposed to a basic Combat Training program that has been radically re-designed to make him/her: Faster Stronger More Powerful More agile/mobile Less likely to suffer from overuse injuries More likely to rebound quicker from acute injuries And more capable of performing the tasks required of a [...]
HIIT Kicks Cardio’s Butt
So, there I was. I had just finished a set of killer HIIT sprints….when the Lance Armstrong clone to my left asked me “what’s the deal with that workout”? I think I croaked something about anaerobic this and EPOC that…and was about to hop off the bike when he said… “that’s just a fad..like Atkins. [...]
