The more I modify the system, the more I feel involved and like a willing participant. Doing this thing the second time around can get a little repetitive and so even during the DVDs that I followed with such venom previously I am finding ways to make things different. Today was Kenpo, one of the [...]

So here is my interpretation. It is basically the same as doing the DVD in fact, I have only substituted a couple of moves. I cannot nail down the best way to work in the incline leg press so it may never make it in to the workout. I posted this before the workout, so [...]

Share the outdoors with your kids. They will thank you for it (even if they are 40 before they do…)   Rather than spend my time alone in the basement, I took the opportunity to go on the 30th Annual Howl On The Hill 5k run with my wife and some kids from her Fit [...]

Here is the plan for today, shoulders and arms G90X styleeee! Shoulders and Arms First Circuit: Alternating Shoulder Presses Straight Bar Bicep Curls Tricep Cable Pushdowns Second Circuit: Deep Swimmer’s Presses Full Supination Concentration Curls Feet Up Bench Dips Third Circuit: Upright Rows – Straight Bar Static Arm Curls  – Straight Bar Overhead Dumbell Tricep [...]

Knee pain? Hip pain? Low back pain while running? Check your ITB. As I was preparing to go down to the basement to do Plyo with Tony, the ever modest, humble Tony, I recalled something he says during the Plyo workout. “You should see me play hoops after doing this for a couple of months… [...]

Day 1 of G90X was great. No, wait, it sucked. Well, at the time it was great, now, 2 days later and I am facing Plyo while unable to walk properly I can tell you it was awful. I thought for sure I wouldn’t get sore, after all I had been doing pushups and pullups, [...]

The Return Of The Gym Rat… It’s time for a rebirth. Time to reinvest in myself and to take what Tony taught me back into the gym. Today is going to be Day 1 of G90X. My gym infused version of P90X. Since I have a gym membership and my psyche still requires that public [...]

So I have figured out why I am hating P90X all of a sudden. It is this lingering painful last rest week. I have always been the type who like to finish practice with a sprint. When I played rugby throughout all my youth either in England for my school or County, here in Canada [...]

Extreme Relaxing… Bring It (to me on the couch) I was reminded today while watching the Biggest Loser on TV the importance of a good heart rate monitor. Even if you are not particularly concerned with your heart rate per se you should have one that tells you how many calories you have burned in [...]

Yoga – October 8 2009 Rugby… Great for your legs, hard on the head. This is the second last time I will do Yoga. Due to my creative interpretation of the order in which I have been doing the program the last few weeks I have 2 yoga, 1 core syn and 1 stretch x [...]