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May 12
2010
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Killing Two Birds With One Stone (Part II)Posted by James in Untagged |
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Tagging right off Judy's last two posts, I have been also doing something other than just exercise to...well get my exercise. My front yard has two very ugly trees and my father regretted planting when we first bought our house about 16 years ago. So since I already pulled out 2 pretty large trees in our backyard (which took about 2 weeks), I thought this would be a much easier task.
Each tree took about 2 days but I gotta tell you, its no easy task trying to uproot a tree. Cutting the tree down is easy with a chainsaw but digging around it, that is some major upper body workout. With limited tools, I use the same pick axe for the entire process and lever out tree from underneath.
Right now, there is a craze on total body workouts as opposed to isolating your muscles. Sure it's great to get the big biceps to show off to strangers at the pool, or to pump your pectorals like Terry Crews, but using your body as a whole to build strength is useful in your daily life. In real life, you never use just one muscle of your body, unless of course you're doing desk work or something. Any physical task you perform, your body works as a whole. This is why you'll rarely see me on a machine (unless of course I am recovering from an injury), but almost always using free weights.
Don't just do curls, do curl presses, curl squats. Don't feel like you have to stick to the same motion for the 10 reps on your triceps, go over and under, palm up and palm down. Even look at Tony Horton's workouts, most are ALL from just ordinary, daily life movements. from pulling your pants up, starting up a lawn mower, putting things on the shelf and even crawling under a fence.
Be creative, use your entire body, pull out some trees.
