Showing posts with label tabatas. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Today's Workout and Menu

Here's my meals and workout for today:

Meals:

Breakfast: Blueberries, Strawberries and Walnuts top with fat free milk (this is my healthy substitute for cereal)

Lunch: Omelet - 2 eggs w/ 4 egg whites with half a green bell pepper, mushrooms and onions. Slice of whole wheat toast with natural peanut butter.
Snack: Banana and almonds

Dinner: Chili with a salad. The salad had 2 hard boiled eggs and was topped with a little balsamic vinegar.

Workout:

I didn't have time today to get my Turbulence Training workout in so I did an interval workout around Tabatas. The intervals included exercises that use weights and body weight so you get a resistance workout and cardio workout at once. My goal for this contest is to train like an athlete.

Tabatas: 20seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest. I moved on to the next exercise with minimal rest.

DB Snatch/Clean/Press - 35 LB DB - Did each arm for 3 intervals

Jump Squats - 3 intervals

Push Ups - 3 intervals

Step Ups onto bench - Each leg 3 intervals

10 minutes walking on the treadmill @ 3.5mph at an incline of 5.

It was a very short workout, I finished in around 25 minutes, but it was a great workout. I was drenched in sweat and was really struggling to catch my breath after the Tabata's.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Quick Workout and Contest Time!!

Since my wife is into her 36 week of pregnancy I did not have time to go to the gym this weekend & I didn't get my 3rd TT workout in this week. Not a problem though!!

My wife is going through the nesting stage of her pregnancy so I was regulated to cleaning everything and anything this weekend (I think I have a couple more weekends of cleaning before this is done.) Since I did not make it to the gym, I did manage to get away from scrubbing the floor and sneak in a workout while my wife was in the shower. Here's what I did.

10 Pullups (I have the Irongym, great investment for $20)

Tabatas:

Body Weight Squats - 20 secs of squatting, 10 seconds holding at the bottom of the squat. Repeat 8 times.

Pushups - 20 seconds of pushups, 10 seconds holding in the top position. Repeat 4 times.

10 more pullups.

4, 2 minute rounds on the heavy bag with 1 minute rest.

I was able to do this workout in about 3o minutes while my wife was showering and got back to scrubbing my floors without her noticing. It was funny because she came downstairs and saw me sweating. She felt bad because she thought I was sweating from scrubbing, little did she know that I just had did a kick-butt workout!

Just a reminder that the Turbulence Training 5th Transformation Contest starts tomorrow!!

What a better way to get motivated, get leaner and have a chance to win a thousand dollars! If that isn't a great investment, I don't know what is. Even if you don't win, the weight loss is reward enough.

This time I will be going even harder than the 4th TT Transformation Contest. I've been slacking these last few weeks with my eating because I've been concentrating on work and the baby, but this contest will provide the motivation I need to achieve my 6 pack abs.

Don't worry, you have until May 26, 2009 to sign up for the contest. I will probably not start the contest for another week or two.

Turbulence Training 5th Transformation Contest
Transformation Contest Rules
Turbulence Training