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Last week was bad with thanksgiving and a wedding.

today nothing because it took longer than expected to get my car winter ready and i had to go out of my way to return the tuxs before work.

Normal workout tomorrow, a lot of body weight stuff, machines, dumbbells, running.

I have the fitness test again for the county(the one i already did but have to do again because i took myself off the list to wait to see what happened with another county)  Its not a pass or fail, just kind of do it and see what happens.

I am thinking about just doing it because right away i can make good money and if i went the paramedic route, itd be about 2 years until i made what id make starting february. 

Anyway that one is just how many push ups can you do to failure, 1.5 mile run test(not going to take it too serious) and sit ups in a minute which is just horrendous for me and always has been.

a thought: those are either super long workouts, or you're committing to multiple workouts per day. personally i've never been able to sustain multiple workouts per day, even a couple of days per week, for more than a few weeks. life just gets in the way, i get derailed, and then i say fuck it. skipping feels bad and is demotivating. much easier for me to commit to fewer workouts and then do them really consistently.

that's just my n=1, but you might have an easier time staying on your grind if you're a little less ambitious. forget about the running, for example, and just do something like:

day 1: push day, walk x 60 mins
day 2: bike x 30-60 mins
day 3: pull day, walk x 60 mins
day 4: bike x 30-60 mins
day 5: squat, walk x 60 mins
day 6: rest or bike/walk if you feel like it
day 7: rest or bike/walk if you feel like it

Quote from: LBSS on December 04, 2016, 04:27:02 am

a thought: those are either super long workouts, or you're committing to multiple workouts per day. personally i've never been able to sustain multiple workouts per day, even a couple of days per week, for more than a few weeks. life just gets in the way, i get derailed, and then i say fuck it. skipping feels bad and is demotivating. much easier for me to commit to fewer workouts and then do them really consistently.

that's just my n=1, but you might have an easier time staying on your grind if you're a little less ambitious. forget about the running, for example, and just do something like:

day 1: push day, walk x 60 mins
day 2: bike x 30-60 mins
day 3: pull day, walk x 60 mins
day 4: bike x 30-60 mins
day 5: squat, walk x 60 mins
day 6: rest or bike/walk if you feel like it
day 7: rest or bike/walk if you feel like it

x2

but i'd still try to get in some running ~2x/week.. even if it's just the 1-mile run (or longer if you feel great) + walk the remainder form. Even just a little bit of consistent sustained running is going to be a big benefit & i'm sure Stamos will want to run more in the future - so IMHO it'd be a good idea to get in a little bit during the week.

I also personally prefer a combo of push/pull/lower on each day (so M-W-F).. but that's just me.

The best thing for Stamos would be to find the most basic routine (given his schedule) and just try to stay completely consistent with it. IMHO, juggling all kinds of different routines is tough - I personally think sticking to just a few things works the best. For example, if someone wanted to build their legs / leg strength and ALL THEY DID was squat, i'd prefer that over lots of variety.. To me, squat-squat-squat beats variety-of-leg-exercises-and-switching-things-up-alot.. Same idea for cardio.. Picking multiple things is fine (run/walk/bike) but it's just all of the extra WOD/randomness which interferes IMHO.

Variety/switching things up is definitely 'more fun', but I think it's less optimal when it comes to making optimal gains.

I went off on a tangent, but just my 2 cents.



Also, 2x/day only works for a short period anyway (unless you're getting paid as an athlete) - even then, it could cause more harm than benefit. So 2x/day for 2 weeks could be enough to get you laser focused and force your system to adapt, but then after that short period is over, it makes more sense to utilize more rest (as a training methodology itself) in order to boost adaptation/recovery/performance.

It's funny how we (most of the time) don't think of "rest" as a training tool... when it most definitely is.



I guess in the end, if we can do less and achieve more, that's always the BEST option.. Simply being addicted to training for the sake of training is fine for most people, but when you have real performance goals etc, it's a much better idea to figure out how to achieve them by doing LESS work instead of MORE work.. This efficiency is very important. It's much easier to go out and try to BRUTE FORCE gains day-in-day-out, tons of volume, tons of training, insane effort .... but soooooooooo many people already do that and go nowhere - mostly fitness addicts.. Their CNS's are toast.



The performance algorithm in its' most simple form is a balancing act between: quality vs quantity.

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