August’s focus is on explosive fitness. We wanted to have a “fun” month where we do a bunch of crazy stuff to build total-body fitness and endurance, and torch the bodyfat.
For this month, we go to a light/medium/heavy setup with a day where we continue the SFP2.0, which is a fantastic workout, and throw in a “Crazy Barefoot Nature Day” inspired by MovNat. We are thinking of adding another workout day towards the end of the month. I’ll keep you posted.
Today was “hard” day. The last one for the month. I wanted to really bust it out and do all five sets, with minimal rest. That did not happen.
I don’t know. I was tired or something and just couldn’t get it going. I did four sets of everything.
One thing I tried to focus on was form. I read a great article at the Gym Jones website. In case you did not know, they trained the Spartan warriors in the movie “300.” Fame aside, I really love their training philosophy. You can read more at their website, but this article about quality reps really made me think.
I did my push presses a little deeper, which went ok. TGUs went fine. When I did lunges just a little deeper (according to Gym Jones: non-weight-bearing knee “kissing” the surface but not carrying any load), man did I feel a major difference! It was hard to finish all four sets. Keep in mind, I’ve got a 16kg kb in one hand and a 24kg in the other, so it’s not like I didn’t have reason to struggle! I’m gonna be feeling that for a few days.
New record on the weight loss. I finally broke through 170, coming in at 169.8 lbs this morning (pre-workout).
Monday was the standard 20 minutes of (formerly) medium, now considered “easy” training.
Tuesday I was going for 8 sets of snatches with the 24, but hit 9 instead. I would have done 10, but my first set had been with the 16. Yeah, I know I could have done an extra set and gotten 10 with the 24, but decided not to push it. I will save that for next week.
Today is off day and I hit a new weight record: 171.6 lbs. Yeah, baby. I figure I’ve lost about 6 pounds of fat, and gained a little muscle in the process.
The plan is to keep eating clean and working out until I get the fat amount down to where I am ok with it, then changing my eating to focus on building muscle instead of burning fat.
