Topic: Conditioning

[brady]

My workout for today: 4 sets of 15 pushups, 1 set of pushups to failure, 1 1 minute plank, 1 plank to failure.  Move on to the punching bag for an hour for cardio/practice.  Assisted pullups (I put one foot on the back of a chair) in 4 10 rep sets and failure on the fifth set.

Next Monday will be similar, except I'll make the jump to decline pushups, need to do a test to decide how many to start with (75% of however many I max out on), and I'll add more each session (based on adding to the max set) till I break 25 on the failure set, at which point I need to give in and do bench presses, or find a weight vest or something.

This is how a routine needs to be, not just a list of exercises, but knowing how many of them, what weights (if appropriate) and how to judge how much to add to your workout each week.

I do know the number of exercises; I just didn't post them.  It depends all on what I am doing that week.

Sigh... this is not working so well.

Lol, what now.

[David Glass]

I've always jogged on and off, so cardio is already taken care of.

The word "Cardio" just kills me. The most obvious reason for that is, if you think about what your bodies response to "Cardio"-like exercises, such as Jogging, Rowing, Elliptical, etc, and you compare it to your body's response after you've done a 200m dash with some connecting vaults, you'll pretty much understand that jogging doesn't quite do the trick

The reason for that is, jogging covers a completely different metabolic pathway than more explosive type exercises, such as interconnecting vaults, running, etc.