It has been quite awhile since I have made a post. I apologize for that but sometimes life gets busy. However, I have avidly been performing my body weight exercises and have been hitting the treadmill and elliptical machines. I cannot tell you how much I despise doing cardio but for me it is a necessity. I am too much of a wimp to work out in my cold garage so I joined a health club. It allows me to get a cardio workout and gives me a warm place to my pull-ups, etc without freezing my backside off.

My daughter takes a cardio class on Wednesday nights. I usually finish my workout before she is done so I sit down and read through a few of the magazines. Last week I flipped through a Muscle and Fitness magazine and two days ago I looked through a Men’s Health (I think) magazine. Each magazine has an article or more on body weight exercise routines.

The article I read two days ago broke up his routine into 5 different group of exercises containing 3 – 5 exercises each. He then randomly chose an exercise from each group and performed them without rest until he had completed the five chosen exercises. That constituted one round. He then rested two minutes and then performed 2 more rounds.

This gives good flexibility to your routines. There is a tendency to perform the same exercise routine over and over. When you do this your routine get boring and your body adapts. By choosing different exercises each time you keep your body off balance and keep yourself interested.

The article that I read in Muscle and Fitness discussed a body weight workout with plyometric training, sledgehammer training and the like. I almost fell out of my chair as I read it. What has the world come to when M & F includes an exercise routine that is more athletic in nature and doesn’t involve a 280 pound giant throwing plates of iron around the gym. It was good to see that even they are beginning to acknowledge the benefit of body weight training.

Well, I will try not to let it be too long between my next post. Actually, I have a review of an inexpensive product that I want to do. I will try to get to that in the next couple of day. Until then, stay healthy.

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