Workout: Tabata Thursday

Workout: 

Tabata Intervals (A 20 minute workout - including rest periods)

• 20 sec Bear Crawl, 10 sec Rest - (repeat for 8 rounds).
• rest - 1 minute
• 20 sec Double Unders*, 10s rest - (repeat for 8 rounds)
• rest - 1 minute
• 20 sec Bar Muscle Ups**, 10s rest - (repeat for 8 rounds)
• rest - 1 minute
• 20 sec Burpee Push-Up (w/ 2 push-ups), 10 sec rest - (repeat for 8 rounds)
• rest - 1 minute

Notes:

Please scale all Fitness Explorer workouts and playouts to your current ability. This may mean increasing or decreasing the weights prescribed, modifying distances and times, or changing number of sets and reps to complete. Get adequate rest and sufficient nutrition to fuel the activity and to aid in recovery. Work hard and play hard but never sacrifice correct form.

Please visit the exercise FAQ for details on individual exercises or consult the advice of a registered exercise professional to ensure safe execution of the above movements.

If you are new to this mode of exercise, try one of the beginner's circuits

Perform a warmup prior to activity, here's an example Fitness Explorer warmup

Watch Fitness Explorer video's here on YouTube

Workshop: Intro to PRIMALity (Barcelona)

Intro to PRIMALity Workshop  - Sat 29 Sept 2012

Delivered by Darryl Edwards, founder of Fitness Explorer Training.

This 5 hour workshop is an introduction to primal, natural movement and play.  A method called PRIMALity. 

Movement which is:

Playful, Restorative, Instinctive, Mindful, Adaptive, Life-giving, Integrative, Tactical and Youthful

The workshop is designed to improve real, practical movement skills that will assist you in performing everyday, recreational and extraordinary physical tasks more efficiently and effectively. 

You will learn 

What is (and isn't) Natural Movement?

The 25 Components of Fitness

Function vs Structure

How to integrate primal movement into modern life

Practical Participation - will include:

Locomotive Work & Play:- (bipedal and quadrupedal) movement drills and variations (including squatting, crawling, walking, running, sprinting, climbing, jumping)

Object Work & Play:- (including lifting, carrying, balancing, throwing)

Context Work & Play:- (social and imaginative)

No Equipment Required:- (individual and partner-based fitness)

Isometric stability    

Isomotion drills

After completion of this workshop you will have an understanding of natural movement and primal play and it's unique approach to improving your fitness, health and well-being.  

This workshop is open to all, regardless of fitness level, age, gender or ability.  

Practical participation is encouraged for all physical activities.  Activities and training will be adapted to suit individual participants.

Participants need to bring: water, lunch, clothing for outdoor work and an open-mind

Price & Booking details here: --> http://fitnessexplorer.eventbee.com/event?eid=980038244

Thought of the Day: I Want to be A Bodybuilder!

Lee Haney - Body building champion

I want to be a BODYBUILDER! But not the body builder you are thinking of right now.

• I want to build a body that thrives on natural and practical movement that enables me to function;


• I want to build a body that is a jack of all trades and a master of none;


• I want a body built on the foundation of real-food, a focus on health and youthful, exuberant movement;


• I want to build a body where the mind is fully engaged with the activity, putting the full weight of my attention into the here and now;


• I want a body built on activity that regenerates and invigorates not one that is based on activity that causes degeneration and injury;

• I want a body that is built on frequent moderate activity and infrequent vigorous activity;
  
  
• I don't want a body that is obsessed with the way I look or feels inadequate because I don't look like a male model on the cover of a magazine; 

• I don't want a body which can only come about my intense sacrifice, punishment, chronic hard labour and which can only maintain its "physique" for 2 weeks a year, or to prepare for a photo-shoot.

• I don't want a body that looks like it is sculpted out of clay, but that can take clay and can shape it to whatever I need it to do at that point in time.

• I want a body built for the way that I want to live: with vitality, creativity and passion.

I want to be a BODYBUILDER! But to build the body that enables me to do what I want to right now.  PRIMALity

Darryl Edwards - Bear Crawl along the slide

Feature: Men's Fitness - September 2012 Issue

Check out the September issue of Men's Fitness where a few trainers myself included critique some of workouts seen in movies.  My movie selection was Rocky IV (as above), The Bourne Supremacy and I am Legend.