Saturday, March 20, 2010

Moderate Intensity Day

I slept well and long last nght, nearly 9 hours. This afternoon, after looking for some furniture with LEB for MJB’s bedroom, I did my second Bodyweight Blueprint for Fat Loss moderate intensity workout. I started out with an Intu-Flow joint mobility warm-up. Then I did five rounds of the following staggered set of strength exercises.

  1. Kneeling pushups 45 seconds
  2. Rest 45 seconds
  3. Hip Bridge 45 seconds
  4. Rest 45 seconds
  5. Side Plnnk on elbow and knee 45 seconds per side
  6. Rest 45 seconds
  7. Modified 1 leg squat 45 seconds per side.
  8. Rest 45 seconds and repeat entire sequence 4 more times.

I finished my workout with the Prasara Yoga cool down and stretching sequence. Read and followed the directions this time around! This is the best all around workout program I’ve done in a long time. Turbulence Training is great, but I think the combination of Intu-Flow, bodyweight strength exercises, Prasara Yoga and varied intensity levels address all my fitness needs in a systematic fashion.

As I mentioned before I was trying to create such a system myself by combining Turbulence Training with Tai-Chi and Yoga on my off days. I never quite got consistent with the Yoga and Tai-Chi though and last summer my joints, particularly my knees were complaining loudly! to prevent any such recurrence I’m icing my knees right now. I’ll likely get back on the TT 6 month bodyweight workout at some point in the future in order to keep my workouts fresh and interesting.

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