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Weekly Workout Wrap-up

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Friday, February 27th, 2009

I haven’t done a very good job lately at updating what my workouts are looking like, so I’ll play a little catch-up.

I have been mixing my 10 minute workouts in with workouts geared more towards strength and muscle building. Some will tell you that you shouldn’t concentrate on more than one thing at once, which is true to a point, but I’ve increased my deadlift by 30 pounds, my bench press by 15 pounds, and I’ve gained 15 pounds while maintaining a 31 inch waist.

Not too shabby if you ask me. One of the biggest reasons I’ve been able to gain so much weight and strength is that I’ve cut down on the amount of work I do.

I love working out. I love doing my 10 minute workouts and I enjoy following along with the ladies in my boot camps, but it just gets to be too much for the body to handle.

In the Fall/early Winter, I was doing too much and lost a lot of weight – and most of it wasn’t fat, given I didn’t have much fat to lose. I lost a lot of muscle and it showed. Read More→

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10 Minute Workout and Me Be Delerious

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Monday, February 9th, 2009

Maren woke up at 4:30 this morning and I couldn’t get back to sleep after that, so if something in here doesn’t make sense, it’s because I’m delirious…not because I’m stupid. Thank God for spellchecker!

I just got done with my last fat loss boot camp that I teach here in my training studio and I have a few minutes before my next client arrives so I decided to cram in a 10 minute workout. Read More→

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Ed’s Wednesday and Thursday Workout

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Thursday, February 5th, 2009

I haven’t been doing too well with my workouts this week, mostly because I’ve got a cold, but really I’ve just been lazy.

As I’ve said before, I’m a total weenie when it comes to not feeling well and it turns me into a lazy turd.

But I’m back into the swing of things as of yesterday, so here’s yesterday’s workout and today’s.

Wednesday Full Body Resistance Tube and Bodyweight Workout:

1A) Alternating Tube Chest Press – 15 reps per arm
1B) Squat w/Alternating Tube Row – 15 reps (30 squats)

2A) Chin-up – 3 x 10
2B) Bodyweight Lunge – 3 x 15

3A) Stability Ball Jack Knife – 3 x 15
3B) 1-Arm DB Swing – 3 x 12 per arm
3C) Spiderman Push-up – 3 x 15

This was a pretty quick workout, but it felt good to get back into it.

Thursday Dumbbell Workout:

1) Deadlift – 4 x 5 – Hit another personal best on this one and it felt awesome.

2A) Reverse Lunge – 3 x 10 per leg
2B) Elbows Out DB Row – 3 x 10

3A) DB Rear Flies – 3 x 12
3B) Feet Elevated Hip Extension – 3 x 15

4A) Inverted Row – 3 x 10
4B) RDL – 3 x 15

Then I finished up with some biceps curls…because I’m a dude and I like ‘em.

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Hotel Room Body Weight Workouts

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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Right this instant, I’m sitting in a small conference room in the Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando, Florida.

I’m at a meeting with some other fitness pros from around the US and Canada. Crazy Canadians.

We’re learning and having a good time hanging out with one another, but my workouts always suffer when I’m away from home.

My diet really suffers, even though I’m around a small group of fitness pros. It’s not bad, just not as tight as it is when I’m home.

Another reason my workouts suffer is because I refuse to pay to use the gyms in hotels. Most are useless and junky, even if it’s a really nice hotel.

Plus it’s just one of those things I don’t like doing. Weird? Maybe, but it’s turned into one of those things I don’t do on principle. Hotels nickel and dime you to death anymore and it’s annoying.

Do I sound bitter?

Anyway, back to my real reason for talking to you.

Hotel room workouts.

Since I don’t like using the hotel gyms, I do my workouts in the room. Body-weight workouts, obviously since carrying weights with me would probably put me over the weight limit on the flight, plus make me unpopular when the overhead compartment would come tumbling down.

I wasn’t feeling very creative, so I just pulled up my YouTube page and wrote a couple of those body-weight workouts, plus one of the fast abs workouts down and did them each a few times.

Total workout time each day was anywhere from 10-20 minutes, depending on the day and how I was feeling. I also did some stretching afterward because my hips and shoulders are so tight from sitting too much.

The body-weight workout and abs workout are below:

I had to substitute in Mountain Climbers for the Jack Knife in the first video, since I don’t have a stability ball with me here in the hotel.

If you have any questions, let me know by commenting below. I love answerin me some questions.

Talk to you soon!

The Fit Dad

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Monday Workout

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Monday, December 29th, 2008

I’ve been a bad fitness boy and haven’t been keeping up on my workouts as well as I wanted to the last couple weeks.

Oh sure I’ve done the 10 minute thing, but my goals have changed and I’m needing more workout time…and I’ve been wussing out.

But today is a new day.

I’ve made it through all the holiday rig-a-ma-roll and have come out smelling like roses. Fatter roses than two weeks ago, but roses nonetheless.

My new workout program is kind of cool.

I am actually stealing a program I designed for a client because I liked it so much.

It’ll only take me about 25 minutes a day to do and is to help me beef up a little. I am still trying to gain back all the weight I lost this Fall due to my “I’m so stressed out I just might shoot someone” period. There’s nothing special about today’s workout, so I hope you weren’t expecting some grand epiphany by reading it.

Anywho, here’s the workout for today:

Deadlift – 4 sets of 6 reps

2A) DB Row – 3 sets of 8
2B) DB Reverse Lunge – 3 sets of 8

3A) Chin-up – 3 sets of 12
3B) 1-Leg Hip Extension with foot on stability ball – 3 sets of 12

4A) Standing Pulldown – 2 sets of 15
4B) RDL – 2 sets of 15

Here’s the fun part. If I have time, I finish up with a 4 minute tabata style arm circuit but throw in some burpees.

As a dude it always feels good to do a little biceps work…curls for the girls and all.

The only problem is I don’t have mirrors at my studio so I can’t gawk at myself like all the other dudes at the gyms.

I’ll still kiss my biceps with every curl. Maybe I’ll even wear my sunglasses while I do my curls. Plus I can’t forget to go shave my arms when I’m done.

OK I’ll stop making fun of those guys now.

Have a great day!

The Fit Dad