Comfort Level (low) Results (very high)
No one ever said that training was easy. At least not the kind of training that gets results - but I guess that's the point. If it was easy everyone would do it. Well, I'll tell you a what everyone's NOT going to be doing but what everyone SHOULD be doing. Seeing Lurysol. I'd been going at a pretty steady clip of working out with the team every morning at 6 a.m. and then coming back in around 5 to do some cardio or get another workout in by myself or with Todd. Call it a change of pace or call it a good amount of teasing by Lurysol herself but I found myself working out with Miss Olivera Wednesday afternoon. Now I had been holding my own against the college kids for the last few weeks (if not kicking some butt here and there) but yet again I wasn't ready for what I encountered with Lurysol. Abandoning the heavy weight and high reps that I was accustomed to Lurysol put me through a workout focused on balance. Something I'm greatly lacking. Having accomplished the first part of the workout we transitioned into flexibility and stamina. Another thing I'm missing a lot of. A combination of lunges, weight balanced movements and twists later and I was not only exhausted but embarrassed by my lack of ability to balance on a leg and lift a weight with my other hand. What's next? Rub a head and pat a stomach? Or was that the other way around. Regardless it was a great workout for those simple reasons - it got me out of my comfort zone and made me focus on things I hadn't done in a long time. A couple more sessions with Lurysol and there'll be something else that I'm missing more of... Weight!
Let’s Start the Insanity
We're going to explore a specific school of thought on training and getting your body in shape today. First, if you haven't played competitive basketball for a few years expect there to be a few drawbacks. Your conditioning won't be there. You can't make the same moves you once did and even though your body thinks your capable of certain things... it will fail you at times. I learned that the hard way two weeks ago as I tried to reclaim all the past basketball glory within a few hours at noon. I got a good sweat out of it. I also got a gash on my arm, a lot of bruises and a severely twisted knee. This brings me to the second school of thought. If you haven't been in the studio for two weeks DO NOT by any means start back up at six in the morning with the Pacific Golf team. The Tigers, reaping the benefits of Ben Mackie, pun intended, get after it every morning before the sun has even thought about starting to rise. This morning Ben welcomed the team back, albeit in his own former-British-Army way....
100 reps of each
push-ups | ball sits | plank | russian twists | cross over twists | lunges | bicycles
And that's only 1/4 of the the morning as you do 100 of each of those and then come back and hit it 75 times. Then 50 times. Then 25. Welcome back!
