Archive | February, 2009

Finding the Right Burn (Fat Burn That Is)

Let’s face it, even though cardiovascular exercise is the number one way to strenghten our heart and lungs, the main reason we do it is to burn body fat and/or lose weight.   Some want a combination of the two while some want to concentrate more on one than the other.  For example, you may be [...]

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DAY 41 – 10 MINUTE TRAINER by Tony Horton “CARDIO CORE” + “CARDIO” “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” ~ Michael Jordan (read for my 3 secrets of exercise results success)

MY 3 SECRETS ARE

1. 10 minutes of training daily Tony Horton Style! everyday for the last 41 days (for the last 13 days I have been doing 20 minutes)

2. 5 containers! packed with food. They are your breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner. last one at 7:30 pm.

3. Don’t quit. Plug away, stick with it, talk my self into completing a 10 minute workout, just do it!

This is a life change becuase the results are worth the 10 Minutes. ~

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DAY 40 – 10 MINUTE TRAINER by Tony Horton … “YOGA FLEX” + “TOTAL BODY” + “Basketball” my son & daughter trained with me.

“Today, Karis and Cedric exercised with my. It’s certainly more difficult to do this program with my kids around. Space constraints. The area that I train in is about an 8 x 8 area. So not a ton of space. It was fun though and I do most of what I do because of them. [...]

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DAY 39 – 10 MINUTE TRAINER by Tony Horton … “TOTAL BODY 2″ + “CARDIO” the best cardio session i’ve had to date.

“Absolutely the best cardio session that I have had to date.  The Total body 2 workout was mediocre at best.  I just couldn’t get enough leverage from the bands I’ve been using to get much out of it.  Thus I am definitely stronger.  I used to strap the bands to my table leg to get [...]

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Body Fat (Too much!) Week 2 review

Finally some results!  First of all I have been noticing I have more energy which I put down to an increased cardio routine.  Also, I have been getting to bed earlier than usual.  A normal night for me went something like this:  Get home from work at 8:30pm (I know we should do something about [...]

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PLYOMETRIC TRAINING – How to increase vertica jump…www.sport-fitnes-advisor.com

How To Increase Vertical Jump (By As Much As 12 Inches!) With the right training techniques you can increase vertical jump performance significantly…  While it may be true that genetics plays a considerable role in an individual’s capacity for peak power, the fact is…  Very few of your competitors or team mates will train specifically [...]

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DAY 38 – 10 MINUTE TRAINER by Tony Horton “YOGA FLEX” Xtreme sports beat me up and Tony stretched me out…

“My Yoga Flex workout was great!  I needed to do this because I was pretty sore from yesterday.  I went and did some Xtreme sports that roughed me up pretty good, but Yoga Flex was able to stretch me out.  I wouldn’t have been able to complete a real session if I had one.  PERFECT [...]

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DAY 37 – 10 MINUTE TRAINER by Tony Horton… “CARDIO” + “CARDIO CORE” when the going gets tough, the tough keep going!

                At about 8:00 am, I hustled off another great workout this morning.  There have been a lot of CARDIO days and CARDIO CORE days thus far on this second round of doubling up the workouts.  Let’s put it this way.  This is a huge test.  A huge “Will I stick with this test” becasue [...]

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DAY 36 – 10 MINUTE TRAINER by Tony Horton “Total Body” + “Cardio Core”….. Same workout as day 35, but reversed

Todays workout was the same as yesterdays but in reverse order.  Good overall workout.  I felt fairly exhausted from yesterdays workout and bball.  I contemplated on splitting the two 10 minutes up.  I decided to just get it over with!  Starting with the strength “Total Body” workout I would say has its difficulties, but overall [...]

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WEEK 5 – 10 MINUTE TRAINER RESULTS….. down 16lbs, feel great!

Week        Starting Weight      Finishing Weight      +/-           Overall results Start         235lbs                  0.00 Week 1      235lbs                 224.5lbs                 -10.5lbs     - 10.5lbs     “A good overall first week.  With the change in diet, I expected these kind of results.” Week 2     224.5lbs               227.5 lbs                +3.0lbs       -7.5lbs “I expected a gain in weight.  I hoped not to, but I felt a balance happening.  Expect Lean [...]

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