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Love or Hate ‘Em, HIIT Workouts Work

September 10, 2010 By

So I personally have a love hate relationship with HIIT workouts. When Chalene is up on that stage, and the fire drill begins to sound, and she starts yelling and all her workout buddies are hi-fiving each other in excitement, and I know 40 minutes of maximum intensity is up, I start to get all freaked out and excited both. Freaked out because I know I’m about to dive into a swimming pool filled with blenders worth of exercise, and excited for the very same reason. There’s nothing like a HIIT workout to test your resolve, to show you what you got, what mental resolve you are bringing to the table.

I always finish them, which is awesome, but what about your guys? Anybody hate them, and if so, why?

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Friday is for Turbo Firers

August 6, 2010 By

Ok, so that is an awkward title, but it conveys what I mean it to. What it means is that I am one day away from completing my first two weeks of Turbo Fire! Which is 1/6th of the whole program! Perhaps it’s because I travel so much, perhaps it’s because I have very busy days, but time flies. It seems just yesterday I was struggling with the Inferno Plan, and now here I am, almost 1/6th of the way through!

What are my thoughts so far? One, this is an intense workout. You have to have either grace, flexibility and coordination, or bloody minded and determined. Guess where I fall in. Everybody on the DVD is skinny and in shape, which makes me feel like the odd man out in the class. No WAY would I attend that class in real life. But no matter what shape or form you are in, it is very, very hard.

Which means you will get in shape. Whether or not it’s the ‘best’ workout I don’t know, but it’s sufficiently tough that I just know I’ll lose weight doing it for 3 months. How could you not?

Plus I like that it comes with a food plan, which helps me stay on track. I’ll speak more specifically about the workouts next time!

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An amusing incident in the night

August 4, 2010 By

Dear blog,

So I worked until very late last night, only getting back to the hotel past 11pm. What a day. Actually a good one, with lots of intense confrontations, but I managed to swing everybody to my point of view, so it felt like victory after victory. Sometimes you lead a horse to water, but it won’t drink, so you have to beat it around the neck and shoulders until it does what’s best for it. These managers simply are in denial about their situation, so I had to forcefully show them how restructuring, downsizing and selling off their worst liabilities might make them lose ‘prestige’ in the short run, but leaves them a smaller, more efficient and profitable company in the long term. Regardless, they finally agreed, and I got home late, having missed dinner.

So what does a sane man then do? He puts on his Turbo Fire workout and goes at it. Which I did. At 11 at night. I was blasting the music, completely caught up in the moment, jumping and doing all sorts of things, when somebody pounds at the door, furious. I froze. I knew this was going to happen. So I pause the workout, go to the door, and I’m riding such a high that I just throw it open.

It’s the manager. The residents to both the sides of my room and below have called in to complain. “What the heck do you think you’re doing?” he demands, angry.

“Changing my life,” I said, right to his face. I swear. He blinked, and had the foolishness to say, “What?”

So I told him. Right there in the hallway, told him about what I was doing, and why, and how great it felt. He was a big guy himself, and he ended up being curious. He actually came in to see part of the workout, and I think he was curious, but was too committed to being angry to really open up. Either way, we had this intense conversation for a whole ten minutes, and then he left, admonishing me to keep it down and not make any more disturbance. I finished the workout on low, but what really struck me was the look in his eye when he saw what I was doing.

It told me he wanted to do it too, but hadn’t yet taken the step I had. Which was really empowering, and made me think: can I be an example to other people?

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A Rump Tiddly Too!

August 3, 2010 By

Why hello, my dear blog, how are you? Really, that’s great. I’m doing great too. I’m in Topeka, Kansas today, and have the entire day off until a round of meetings tomorrow. Going to be consulting with a company that processes a basic food ingredient they mine from the earth. That’s right, a food ingredient derived from petroleum. How interesting is that? Makes you want to look at food ingredients a little closer, I’d say.

But yes, a whole day off, and what is there to do in Topeka Kansas with that time? Going to go see the Brown Vs. Board museum, maybe the zoo, and have dinner at this swank place called the Rowhouse. Wish I had somebody to go with, but I’m used to exploring and eating alone these days. That’s what you get from flying everywhere all the time. What else? OH YES, MY TURBO FIRE WORKOUT. You know, I am really, really surprised as to how well this is going. I think the thrill of just following a workout plan is carrying me along, though lately I’ve been wondering if I should have started with P90X. Too late now, and anyway, Chalene Johnson and her crowd of workout girls are definitely more fun to look at than Mr. Tony Horton would be.

The workouts are tough, and I am definitely not able to keep up, but I just focus on finishing the workouts. I’m sweating buckets, and yes, losing weight! So all is well on that front :)

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