The Workout Chronicles

M-100 (aka Mandatory 100)

10 purpees
10 mountain climbers
10 jump squats

Repeat sequence until finished 100 total reps.

This was a great way to get the heart rate up in a short amount of time. Nice quick cardio session if you’re in a time crunch. Try to complete for time while maintaining good form.

Good night for now.

So its been a long time since I’ve updated this blog. I’ve been making too many excuses for not working out and losing weight. I’ve complained about being too tired from work and there isn’t enough time. Its time to get off my lazy butt and do something about it. Bottom line, if I don’t make the time its not going to happen. Tune in tomorrow. Official weigh in and short term goal setting will begin again.

So it’s been a while and I wasn’t exactly sure what to blog about. I decided to put it out on twitter and asked if there were any topics that people wanted me to talk about.

So my first request was how to get motivated to workout. Well to be honest, I would have to say it’s different for every person. First thing you want to determine is what the ultimate goal is. It should an attainable goal but also don’t limit yourself to what you think you’re only capable of. Your mind can make your body go much farther than what your muscles are telling you in the current moment of your workout.

Other good motivational factors include having a good workout partner. A workout partner provides accountability as well as what I like to call the “no quit factor.” The “no quit factor” often shows up in people that have a competitive streak in them due to the fact that they hate to lose so they never want to be the first person to quit.

Don’t forget about the motivational value of great music. Have a good playlist of workout jams can help just about everyone power through those last moments of what would have been a good workout and turn it into an amazing workout.

Until next time, get your sweat on and happy dieting. Don’t forget to comment and subscribe.

- Joel via iPhone

Sorry everyone for the lack of relevant workout posts. I’ve been really busy with my new job. New hire training has been pretty intense. Been having to try to absorb a lot of information in a very short amount of time.

Here’s a lower body workout to add to the series. I haven’t had time to test it yet so if you could post your times after completing it, that would be great.

20 Jumping Jacks
20 Wide Stance Squats
20 Leg Raises
20 Walking Lunges
10 Squat Jobs
30 Bicycles Crunches
20 Lateral Lunges
20 Calf raises
20 Reverse Step Back Lunges
20 Sit Ups
25 Flutter Kicks
25 Mountain Climbers

(2 rounds for 500 reps, 4 rounds for 1000 reps)

Let me know how it goes.

Until next time, get your sweat on and happy dieting.

- Joel

What’s up everyone? Sorry I haven’t updated in a while. Been really busy looking for a new job. I just finished up school and student loans were already starting to send notices about telling me to get ready to start paying back my loans. Finding a job was a long and eye opening process. With the way the job market is right now, it’s tough enough just to get a call back from your application. I got in touch with all of my personal contacts to see if anyone could help me out. No luck. Finally, I got a call back and the entire interview and hiring process has taken almost a full month. Needless to say, I was officially offered the position and I start this Thursday. Will be working for corporate America so if you’re looking to get a new phone or looking to upgrade to a new phone, let me know.

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let me explain this video. I was just kind of bored and thought I would show off my nerd skills. Anyway, just a little bit of sniper gameplay on Call of Duty: Black Ops. Sorry about the video quality. I recorded it using my iPhone propped on a box. Don’t have any of that fancy recording equipment like all the big YouTube names. But thought I’d have a little bit of fun with it anyway. Hope you enjoy.

Until next time, keep up with the workouts and I’ll see you next time.

- Joel