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functional fitness, strength training, and flexibility
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Stregth Training and Functional Fitness with a Warrior's Attitude
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Total Body Transformation Training BlogA journey about training the entire body to acheive peak fitness and health. Whole body training isn't about body building, toning or running a marathon per se. It's about teaching the body to optimize and balance strength, speed, and strength-endurance. And it's about developing an attitude that is all to lacking in the West around hard work, effort, and the meaning of the journey. Thursday, February 12, 2004Pull and PushIn planning my workout today I knew what the end would be, a 30 minute walk/jog, especially since my ankle and hip were feeling much better today. Normally when you mix strength training and cardio on the same day, the cardio workouts follow the strength training and are a supplement, not the main event. This comes from the bodybuilding emphasis that most strength training routines are based on. In training for a marathon and trying to build a habit of running, priorities need to shift away from lifting weights and toward building cardiovascular and neural endurance.Today's workout is called "pull and push" and it mixes cardio, upper body training, and more cardio. Here is the basic format: Row 5000m Round of 15-10-5 reps of Walk/Run 30 minutes Rests between the strength rounds are to be kept to a minimum ideally. You want to finish the entire workout in under an hour ideally as well :-) This workout really alternates between where is shocks the system. The rowing is a whole body stressor with emphasis on the thighs and back. The squat clean is a pull that requires lower body strength but really hits the deltoids and chest. The press is for the upper back and shoulders. The treadmill finishes the leg workout. Pushing yourself to finish this in one hour and make the treadmill work a challenge is a great cardio and strength endurance training for the day.
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