Blitz training

Sept. 21,2006

As the pace of our lifestyles become ever more a time warp, there is a trend in the fitness world to come up with a 30 minute training sessions. Companies like Curves who offer a 30min. Mainly machine workout advertised for busy woman. This is nothing new. I can recall being a nautilus instructor many moons ago and you would take your trusty clip board and a client and run them through each of 12 stations within the 30 minutes and they would leave. Did you every see anyone get big and strong? Hell no! It was a business. How many Nautilus facilities are remaining? Zero as far as I know. You can pick up the equipment for 30% of their original value. These one-stop fitness business come an go. If you don't offcer a good individualize programs, you won't last.
Thats my thought for today.

The mission is to keep the concept of a blitz type training session, you have to plan carefully the mondality,muscle groups to effect, intencity and equipment placement. You can get a HIIT session in as little as 5 minutes using Tabata porotcal, but that is only for the very fit and strong. However for the day to day stuff if you plan you session so there is efficent use of your time.

This morning session: Heavy bag for 10 minutes. Always a great warmup as long as you don't become aggressive and start blasing away like a mad man. I intersperced the punching with sets of pushups on the nuckles.
Hex dumbell cleans: 60#x5x5 have to use the OL type as that is the highest weight I have for Hex dumbells.
Suitcase one arm KB lifts. 36kg 5x6 superseted this ab roller for 20 reps.
Pullups and pushups ladders: Pushups 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40(started to get sloppie
pullups 2,4,6,8,10, 2,4,6,8.
Stretch: