sborton84’s BodyBlog

Yesterday’s workout kicked my butt. I can’t believe the progress I’m suddenly seeing. Odd how a year’s worth of training adds up and all of a sudden you realize what you’ve been working for. I’ve been dropping the pounds by the day it seems, and I’m lost to as why. Well not lost, I have cleaned up my diet, brought up the calories by a bit, and increased my cardio slightly. I think I can probably link the changes to the full-body workouts I’ve been performing about 3x per week. I superset tons of different exercises with sprints in between. What I like? It’s helping me shed body fat. What I don’t? It’s a little bit unorganized. I need to find a way to organize my plyo/full-body oriented workouts and still work each muscle group to exhaustion.

I’m starting to believe less and less in "overtraining." As long as you give your body nourishment and rest, can you honestly "overtrain???" I guess I’m perhaps a little masochistic (kidding), but I do love the feeling of pain during my workouts. It lets me know I’m working my body hard. If it hurts, I want to train harder. As hard as I can until my body is completely depleted. Why? I’m no longer doing this to impress anyone. I’m doing this to challenge myself and test my so-called "limits."

Anyway, I need to find better resources for plyo workouts. I want something that keeps my heart rate up the entire time. I’m not a big fan of skipping around within a 2 ft radius hopscotch pattern. I’m thinking clapping pushups (which I suck at), broad and bilateral jumps, mountain climbers, jumping over a bench (side to side), and squat jumps. I also need more combo workouts (i.e. squat w/ shoulder press, or lunge with oblique twist, etc).

 Any ideas?