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Fitness & Real Life Your Real Life Fitness – 27th phonecast
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011How Much Do You REALLY Work Out?
Saturday, October 9th, 2010How much do you think you work out? 4 times a week? Twice a day? Every other day? I hear people all the time saying, “I work out 4 times a week, but still can’t get rid of this belly.” Well, to be honest, that doesn’t shock me. My question to them would be, drumroll please…………. “what do you eat?” Want to know why? Because these people working out four days a week, really aren’t thinking about the rest of the week, when they aren’t working out. Let’s break this down. How many hours are there in a day? The answer would be 11. No, kidding. It’s 24, math wizards. How many days in a week? 7. Ok. So how many hours in a week? This answer took me about 3 weeks to figure out, but I got 168. Am I right? Ok, good. So let’s look at it like this. Said person works out 4 days a week, for an hour and a half each day. That ends up being 6 hours a week. This leaves you with 162 hours left of the week. Now, is your 6 hours a week going to combat against whatever you do the other 162? What exactly is it you are doing the other 162? Eating, working, sleeping, watching tv, putting your kids to bed, watching tv, looking on the internet, watching tv, and eating. But even before we go into that battle. Let’s first clarify how much you work out during each 1 and 1/2 hour session. Let’s say you get to the gym and do 25 minutes of cardio. Good for you. You go get a drink of water, and decide what sort of weight routing you are going to do, taking 5 or so minutes. We are up to 30 now. Let’s say you stretch for another 5 minutes. now we are up to 35. Ok. so you have a resistance training routine, where you do 10 exercises, 3 sets of each exercise with a minute rest between sets. Keeping it simple, thats 30 sets. If you are resting a minute between sets, that’s 30 minutes of REST during your hour and a half workout. So now your hour and a half has gone down to one hour, take away the 5 minutes to change from cardio to strength training, and 5 minutes to stretch, and now we are down to 50 minutes. So instead of 6 hours a week of working out, now we are really down to 3 hours and 20 minutes of actual workout time. I’m going to leave you with this, since I don’t want to do any more mathematics. 3 and 1/3 hours out of 168 hours in a week. How much are you really working out?
Fitness- Not Just About Lifting Weights
Friday, May 28th, 2010We are back from Iowa. We had a great time doing the show, American Storm while we were there, and we also had one heck of a workout while we were there too. I would like to share this story. We decided, my brother and I, that we could beat the rest of the crew of American Storm while we were in Iowa, at a game of basketball. 2 on 5. Yes, that’s right. 2 guys against 5 guys. Now, although this seems like a huge mismatch, it turns out, it was. But not the way you might think. The short story of it all, is that Terry(my brother), and I, literally SPANKED the rest of the cast. They also had our stage manager, and our sound and lights man at their disposal for substitutions. Playing to 25 by 1′s and 2′s, we beat them 25-5. The math doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. I know. But here’s the thing. The rest of the guys in the show, have great bodies, they look amazing, and go to the gym. They do their lifts and their cardio. Their workouts are good, but they lack one thing. Diversity. All these guys know is lifting weights. Now, I’m not trying to knock them, but this was no competition. No one on the other team had any basketball experience. Nor did they know how to move laterally, or transversely. They didn’t know how to change direction. The thing about this is, you need to be able to do that in life. It’s that simple. Now, you won’t necessarily have to guard a former college athlete in the sport that they played, but what about if you go on a snowboarding trip. You need to know how to move side to side, and twist and turn when necessary, or else it’s going to be a pretty unexciting trip. Or lets say you are playing with your brothers kid. Running and chasing them around. That kid is going to be all over the place. Wouldn’t you like to be able to keep up with them? The point I am trying to make here, is that weights and cardio and the traditional workout are great for “bodybuilding“, but for daily life “fitness“, they don’t account for much. So diversify your workouts. Learn to do something new. Take up a sport, or lessons of some sort, or just play like a kid. You’ll be more competitive when you challenge two former college basketball players to a game they love. If you are interested in watching the mayhem, I posted it on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDXLFH6jLs
Motivate My Workouts! Las Vegas Fitness
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010Wow. Sitting at the airport today in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and I need to detox. I went home for an American Storm show, and let’s say my town treated me well. Anyway, today is going to be a short one, because I think my flight leaves in ten minutes. One of the guys in the show asked me about motivation for workouts. He says he always has problems at the gym staying motivated to do that last set, or to push a little bit more weight, or even to just work out. So what can be done about this? Personally, I fall victim to this from time to time, and I look in the mirror, and look at old pictures to stay on top of my game. if i don’t look like I did in the pictures, that’s motivation enough for me. Some people need music to motivate them. Sometimes it’s an atmosphere thing. If you don’t like where you are working out, try a different gym a couple days. That might be all it takes to jumpstart you back up. Or maybe it’s a new workout program that will excite you again. Go buy new workout clothes. Ask a friend to come work out with you. Maybe take a few days off, and see what happens. You might start itching to get a good workout in. Whatever it is for you, find it. The slightest changes you make, could make all the difference in your bodies. Good luck, and if you have any more options, let me know!
