Training Until Complete Exhaustion

If you’re trying to accomplish something as fast as possible (like me right now), training to exhaustion is the fastest way to get there.  In this stage, you want to leave yourself with nothing left after your workout(s) at the end of the day.  It is impossible to keep this up for ever (nor would you want to) but every once in a while it’s good to put your body up against the grind for two weeks.  However, you shouldn’t do it if you know you might easily be discouraged from working out.

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Today’s workout:

• incline treadmill 12 minutes, 1.3 miles + 4.5 minutes add-on cool down/run to finish with 16 minutes and 1.6 miles
• standing shoulder press 3×12 40 lbs
• 3×20 decline sit-ups
• standing 45 degree shoulder flies 3×12 25 lbs
• 3×12 situps on ball with 12 pound medicine ball pull over
• 6 minutes stair stepper level 4 with increase in last 2 minutes
• 3×30 seconds bridge
• 3×12 alternating arm/leg balance (don’t know what to call it but i think it’s involved in yoga
• 4×1 spider man crawls (can’t touch knees to floor)
• 1×10 dumbell squats with 25 lbs
• 1×10 1 legged squats on elevated bench

There may have been one more thing, but that should be it.  I then came home and ate, rested and went back in the backyard.

• air punches
• step ups with knee strive
• jog in place
• balance on one leg with other knee up waist high

The second session lasted about 20-25 minutes.

I had a good amount of energy but this little to no rest circuit is draining me.  I’m not used to it.  I usually give myself a comfortable grace period and now I’m just trying to make it through each exercise.  I did sit down after the run to start off the workout.  I didn’t have much more to give.  I’m telling you, if you ever have a lot of pent up anger, rage, or whatever go take it out on an incline treadmill.  You’ll calm down in a hurry.

After about 2 hours total of high intensity (or all I could muster) exercise, I am done.  In fact, I’m about to go to sleep, but the good thing is I’m burning a ton of calories and I’m going to lose a little bit of weight and tone some in the next few days.

If you want quick gains, you have to take it up another 3-4 notches.  It is difficult when it’s happening, but the rewards of training until exhaustion are worth it.