Bear Bones

Greetings Bears!  After a self-imposed hiatus, BuzzedBeef is back to bore you with more of my fitness saga:  cardio, weights, diet, cardio, weights, diet, cardio.......actually, I'm very excited about some recent changes and developments and would like to share those with you.

 

Waxing eloquent in my last two blogs, I vowed to make 2008 an incomparable year for me in my fitness goals.  Pretty words, yes, but the reality had quickly begun to fail my expectations, primarily due to scheduling.  Thus, I had to make a difficult decision and leave one of my jobs.  I'm back to working one job and chose to stay with the gym.  The gym is where I want to be and the gym can help me reach my goals.  The job I left is a fine job with a great employer; however, it had become much too much of a source of stress for me, so I had to let it go.  Almost immediately, (the same day in fact) my energy levels lifted and I found myself jazzed to hit the gym hard.  I hadn't realized how stressful the other job had become, how tired and beat-down I was from it.

 

As a result, I now have LOADS of time to workout and I am taking advantage of it to the full.  I am now working out each day after I get off work.  I start with 40 minutes on the treadmill, then I move into my weight training.  I am following this routine on advice from a personal trainer.  On the treadmill, I set the pace just short of a running pace and I elevate the treadmill at a fairly high incline.  This combo is a sweat maker.  In addition to the cardio benefit, I also get some leg and glute work due to the 'climbing' motion on the treadmill.

 

For my weight routine, I am going to try to work everything into a 3 or 4 day split, again following the advice of a personal trainer.  Now that I have a lot of free time to workout, I can really take my time and focus on form and technique to get the best from my training.

 

In the coming weeks, I'll let you know more details of my revised weight lifting program and keep you updated on my progress.