Workout Goals to think about
Here is an article I found somewhere on the internet many
years ago so I apologize for not giving proper credit due, however I thought it
was important to share this so you can think about your own workout goals.
Now review some of the objectives in more detail below, I think you will
agree that this is a reasonable way to workout and achieve the state of "health"
to be a Warrior Dad. Remember as a leader of the family a Warrior Dad must have
the energy and health to cope with daily life.
We will be presenting workouts to maintain a healthy presence in your life.
To reach the above goals and objectives, the workout must:
A. Build a strong, healthy, efficient heart.
Need to be able to work all day and still have energy for play with kids, night
out with the wife, household chores and repairs. Need to be able to run up and
down stairs without getting too winded. Don’t want my ticker to give out at 45 -
need no clogged arteries (diet will play a role).
B. Build functional muscular strength.
Mostly for lifting and carrying odd objects at work as well as around the house.
Occasionally pushing, pulling, or dragging a heavy load.
C. Build muscular endurance.
For example, need to be able to do several hours of yard work, such as raking
leaves, digging, dragging, etc., or lifting and carrying my kids when they get
too tired to walk at Disney World, without back, arm, leg and shoulder muscles
tiring too much.
D. Build power and quickness for sports and recreation.
Would be nice to be able to play basketball again, or sprint really fast.
E. Build a reasonable degree of flexibility.
REQUIREMENTS:
1. A workout cannot take more than 30 - 40 minutes.
Including travel time, I spend 10-1/2 hours at work every Monday - Friday, and
sometimes 4-6 hours on Saturday. Throw in 8 hours of sleep, 1-1/2 hours for
breakfast and dinner, an hour for showers and personal hygiene, and that leaves
only about 3 hours out of the day for family, household projects and chores,
catching up on the news, tending to financial matters, and God forbid,
recreation.
2. Workouts must be simple.
Here is what I don’t want: 17 different exercises, some of which are done on
M/W/F 5×5, some of which are done on T/T/S for 5×20, and others which are done
every day except Tuesday and Friday unless it is at the end of a cycle
whereupon you must max out every workout using some crazy progressive percentage
scheme based on max single divided by bodyweight during the full moon phase.
When it gets this complicated (I see a lot of routines that make this look
vanilla)
So again this is something to think about and as I hear from members will
post workout to meet the goals. So please figure out your goals today.
Filed under Warrior Health by Steven Patrick
