workout schedule

This workout goes out to everyone who reads this blog (mark and brooks).

Well, sad as it is, work dictates when and what i can workout (because i have to go to a different city for 2 days) but here goes:

Monday - gym - a day of the gym usually consists of free weights, rotating between legs, arms, back and chest. I usually do chest and back together. This workout consists of benching 3x10, pull-ups 3x10, behind the neck military press, one arm rows, and some other minor exercises that make me tired. Legs are usually squats (which i am really getting into), the thing where you hang your upperbody over and then lift it up. It hits your glutes, hammies, and lower back. please tell me this exercise name so i wont have to write a long description. I also do shoulders on this day. Those are the major things i do.

Tues-run/body weight exercises (the gym is also closed this day)
Wed & Thurs. - I am in a different city so i am stuck to body weight workouts... i am think of adding a jumping/plyo day here.
Fri- gym
Sat- gym
Sun- rest

Methodology-
Since being in Japan, i dont have a workout partner so i dont usually go to complete failure. I am actually liking this more and more. I am seeing results and i dont have to be as sore on the off days. Also, there is a hot girl that just joined the gym so it has inspired me to work out harder.

Anyway, i want your input on working out until failure. I read this one report that said going to failure is good but you should only do it every once and a while.

Also, i have been doing a set amount of certain workouts everyday. Say, try and get 100 push-ups a day, 30 pull-ups, abs, or some other bodyweight exercise. I have been thinking that maybe your body will get used to this and it will be cake after a few weeks. Good or bad?

Gaviotas

This post has nothing to do with Gaviotas I did however just read half the book. How is this not more influential than an Inconvenient Truth? This book rules. Anyhow. Pull-ups -10 to warm up and then 2x5 for each arm where one arm is holding the bar and the other is holding a bath towle like a foot below the bar (working) towards the one hander. Then 3 x15 rafter rows. Then I layed on a table so that my wastes was over the edge and I would lift my legs up and try and hold em. For somereason my head almost exploded. These are hard. I think I did some other pull ups. And I have been doing these things where you go in to a head stand. And when you are perfectly straight you bend at the waste and try and lower your legs to the ground. Its a good lower back workout. However, i couldnt finish because my shoulders and all my handstand muscles were burnt out from yesterday.

I wish we had a pool of genius graduate kids to try stuff out on our farm.

KAPOW!

So I split alot of wood BLAM! and then I blasted the heavy bag for like 15 minutes THWACK! Then I was handstanding. Then 2 sets of 50 explosive pushups off the counter. Then 3x15 inverteds. Then alot of holding my legs up with my hands on the arms of the chair. One of these exercises is making my belly button hurt.

Today I found my kana & Kanji book so I am gonna start learning how to read Japerneez.

IRON MIND! IRON BODY BITCHES! BLADOOOOOW!

Advent of Hahninator

This blog is all about getting about getting ripped and recording our daily routines... I will write about it when im not at work. For now, im standing on one leg for the rest of the day.

Constant Mix Up

I've learned so many sweet skills that I can hit the same muscles every other day but do completely diferent exercises. This keeps my motivation up. When I find one I like I stick with it till it sucks and use any of my other goodies.
2 days ago I was blastin the heavy bag for 5 songs of Fear Factory. Then I went to Inverted Pushups which went 15-13-10. Then I did pushups with my hands on the side of the basketball 3x10. Then I went to the wobble board and went for 2x20 but i put the board on the basketball. You were right the bigger the object the harder that bitch is. If the ball was pumped way more it woulda been really hard. I think I might try to get a shitty bowling ball from somewhere.

Yesterday, was 3x15 Rafter rows. I think thats the 1st time I got all 45. Then I did 8 Rafters pullups and dropped cause my forearms were pumped. Then I came downstairs and did 6 pullups off my balcony. And then I through A towel over my pull up bar and held each end and did 2x5. Then my forearms turned to jelly so I smeared em on some toast and ate em.

back in

after not posting for a while, i'm 2 weeks deep into a solid workout change. i'll detail each day as i go through it. planned on doing 20 minutes of hand balancing this morning, but my friend wade came over for his first workout, so i was busy explaining things to him.

warmed up with about 150 rope touches, then did one 20 minute all-out circuit. consisted of:
100 rope touches (sprints/double unders)
20 sledge hammer tire hits
10 burpees
about a minute of ground n' pound on the heavy bag on its side
repeat as many times as possible. i got through just over 4, which means my aerobic system needs some work.

i've been learning a lot about cheese chemistry in preparation for the pasa conference this weekend. all day thursday i learn about cheese and the creamery business, then friday and saturday i'll mostly be focusing on soil health, pasture and forest management, and livestock genetics. i've got a lot of questions. lately i've come to the conclusion that farmers who can successfully farm through rapid climate change will be superior geneticists, both plant and animal. i think goats and chickens will be the two most important livestock (which they already are in the rest of the world).