Elliott and I are working on bring in more exercise to our recent lifestyle changes. Our goal is to lift weights 3 times a week, plus at least one abs workout, we use the P90X ab ripper video because we like it in a sort of sick way and then we are going to sprint once a week. The sprints idea is coming from a new book, at least new to us, The Primal Blueprint. He suggests, as do many other nutrition and exercise experts we have researched lately, to do quick bursts for exercise.
In this case we are actually sprinting for the bursts because it is amazing simple and as it turns out amazingly hard. We went to a park with a large open field. We did wear our five fingers because we don’t do anything half way and the Primal author thinks they are the bees knees. We warmed up by jogging for a few minutes. Then we did 8 sets of all out sprint for 20 seconds followed by 10 seconds of rest. So the hard part was done in 4 minutes. Pretty quick for a workout huh. It was hard. Really hard. Our lungs were burning by the end. It was fun and rewarding. We are looking forward to doing more of these. For more info about sprints and for a video visit: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/what-are-tabata-sprints/
