As many of you might have figured out based on my choice of daily exercise, I am a big fan of intense interval training of all flavors. The sort I’ve found most likely to make you keel over and puke is often referred to as “Tabata intervals” and requires you to work for 20 seconds, rest for 10 seconds, rinse & repeat.
I have also found (more like noticed) that doing manual labor is really freaking tiring, that’s why I sit around on my ass all day at this computer. All moronic witticisms aside, whenever I’m doing the many articles of yard work that living out in the middle of nowhere requires, I finish off the day with a hot shower reflecting on just how much of a great workout I received as a bonus. Often I have been inspired by those who train with such things as sledgehammers, but have found I prefer more traditional iron & body weight training to be more my style. That is, until I found the site of Ross Enamait. I particularly like his article on Tabata-style sledgehammer training. Just watching the video makes my back & sides flair up in pain! It’s stuff like this that constantly reignites my passion for physical conditioning and keeps me from throwing in the towel out of boredom. I am going to incorporate this and similar features into my workouts on the rare days when I’m not sufficiently “worked out” after my typical training.
