endurance boost

Last training, I was able to last about 10 minutes. Now I managed 13:10. Big improvement.

tabata clock

If you know your workouts, you definitely heard of Tabata intervals. Here’s a website that can help you time it.
When you reach the 5th or 6th round you’ll see what you’re made of!

Good luck!

hundred pushups challenge

I started the 100 pushups challenge 2 weeks ago. I haven’t really been following the schedule. I’ve done pushups maybe twice a week ( once according to the training plan, and once to test the maximum number of pushups I can do ). That being said, I’m pretty proud of being able to do 50 pushups in a row. 50 more left to go!

mma workout

Effective today, I’m starting some MMA workouts. I expect them to be brutal.

a challenging game

Here’s a little game I propose to you – consider the following exercises :

• burpee – 3points
• pushup – 2points
• squat – 1point

Do as many repetitions of whatever exercise you want. At the final, calculate how many points you made. Try to beat that score each time you play again! That is, if you like such games. It’s certainly a way to make your training sessions more fun.

3 more training sessions

I don’t know how many of the people that visit my blog can claim they’re in shape. And when I say in shape, I really mean in shape, which in my opinion means being able to sustain anaerobic effort. I know most people will disagree with my opinion. It’s okay, I understand. It’s easier to sustain aerobic effort ( jogging, treadmill, stationary bike ) than do interval training. When most people start exercising anaerobically, they will colapse FAST, or even puke. As a matter of fact, the mascot for crossfit training is Pukey the clown, an image with whom you’ll get to identify should you start training this way.

Tonight, I had a lower-body session again. It was pretty intense. I wrote a couple of days ago that I only had 4 more training sessions to do before I’ll try to push the lower body training a bit. Now there are only 3 more left.

Here are the exercises that I do:

• 10 burpees
• 20 one legged-squats ( 10 each side )
• 30 hindu squats

Ideally, you should repeat this 3-4 times/training session. My opinion is that you shouldn’t rest more than 3 minutes between repetitions. Currently, I’m able to perform this 2 times, and I’m resting 2 minutes between them. It’s very challenging. You should try it. You’ll get to see how much your body can take.

Good luck !

4 more training sessions

Four more training sessions before I’m going to “push it” to see how much I can take. I’m really seeing improvements in my endurance! Thanks “Never gymless” !

training day no.3

So, oficially, I’m not able to perform the 50 day plan from Never Gymless. That’s why I decided to throw my own:

• one day with various exercises for upper/lower body
• one day shadow boxing

I started the shadow boxing about a month ago, and I’m really noticing progress. I went from being able to sustain the effort 2 minutes to about 7 minutes. On the other side, the upper body training is pretty much keeping my muscles guessing, which I consider to be a good thing, as I’m sure this will help me progress quicker. Unfortunately, a upper body training session leaves my muscles sore for about 2 days. I’m sure that pretty soon this phase will dissappear.

Even though it may be too soon to be really sure about this, I am seeing great improvements with my back pain. Coding each day for several hours is pretty demanding on the back, and lately, I’ve been feeling it. The funny thing is that this back pain manifests mostly when I’m going to sleep. I am glad that for the past 3 days it hasn’t come back. I hope it stays gone