Tuesday's Workout

I unfortunately cannot afford to join a Crossfit gym, I already have two gym memberships and then there is the fitness center in my building. I also don't drive and there are no Crossfit gyms around me. Taking some of their principles and mixing it with my own style of working out, well I have come up with some pretty bad-ass, hard to complete workouts. I perform this workout right after leg day and do this workout the same day that I do my shoulder training or on back day.

This workout can be done anywhere. The only thing needed is the body, an exercise band and a Kettlebell. I use a 15-lb Kettlebell because of the high amount of reps I wind up doing.

Pyramid Style, done in a circuit

25 burpees

25 one-arm KB rows

25 upright KB rows

25 exercise band pull-aparts

Repeat the sequence and do 24 reps of each exercise, then 23, then 22, then 21, then 20, then 19 and so on until one rep is left.

Doing Things You Hate Can Be Better Than Doing What You Love

When people avoid certain training protocols because they hate them, that is a shitty reason. I understand that when adhering to a diet, it would not be wise to eat food that you cannot stand, but not doing HIIT when physically able just because you hate it is a stupid excuse.

During the summer I decided to do burpees every week, twice a week for five minutes straight. The first time I could only do two minutes of burpees, then I had to rest. I hate burpees and I began to dread my workout. I dreaded my workout so much on Tuesdays and Saturdays because I knew I had to do my burpees before the rest of my workout. I would delay an hour and then finally do them. I decided that I was then going to do burpees everyday. 

Why would I do something I hated so much everyday? Because I hate them that's why. I adjusted the time I spent doing them and now I do 100 burpees everyday in four 25 rep chunks and now I love burpees. Twice a week I do a circuit that incorporates burpees in a descending pyramid fashion and it is a bitch, but after I'm done, I have clocked in a total of 325 burpees and 325 reps of all other moves and that feels fantastic. 

So if you avoid an exercise just because you hate it, well make yourself do it, it will develop mental strength, but if you avoid an exercise because you are physically unable, then that is another matter.

My burpee routine:

Equipment needed, a kettlebell and your body

Start out with 25 reps of each exercise doing them in a circuit fashion, then do 24, 23, 22, and so on until one rep is left

-Burpees (with a jump at the top, pushup at the bottom is optional)

- One arm kettlebell row

-Kettlebell Bicep curl (holding Kettlebell with both hands)

Then go cry because you are so happy it is over and collapse