Daily Practice for 14 Sep 18

On Friday, we do the Yoga.  Yep, if you’ve been following along here the past couple months, you know that every Friday we do a formal Yoga “asana” (Yoga postures) session.  Ideally, this session should be a minimum of 30 minutes.  Hit up my 10:15 – 11:30 Heated Vinyasa at Cityoga, or do another class, video or solo practice.

That’s it for todays Daily Practice.  Meditation and any cardio activity is totally up to you, or just rest take a break from any other form of training for the remainder of the day.

Over the weekend, get out and move.  Play.  Hike.  Play a sport or maybe a game with kids.  Nothing formal, just move and be ready to train with me again next week.

Peace,

Chris

Daily Practice for 13 Sep 18

Meditation:  Early morning meditation for a minimum of 10:00, working up to 20:00 if possible.  I know that many of my Students have excuses for not meditating, let alone meditating first thing in the morning.  But, like I said, they are excuses.  BTWG is about “No Excuses”!  We figure it out and make it happen.  That’s the warrior spirit… the Spiritual Warrior Way.  So, go to bed a little earlier if you need to.  Otherwise, just get up, maybe sip some warm water and get on your meditation cushion.  It’s only 10:00 so get after it!

Cardio:

30:00 of moderate cardio.  May go up to 1 hour, if desired.  Activity of your choice.  The key is “moderate”, meaning,  no higher zone efforts today – smooth and steady.  Be mindful of the breath and find your flow rather than getting trapped in thoughts.

Yoga:

10:00 of yoga, stretching, mobility or foam rolling.

Daily Practice for 12 Sep 18

Meditation:  Walking meditation for 5:00 – 10:00.  Click HERE if you are not familiar with this practice.

Conditioning:  MetCon.  In this workout, you rest only when needed and complete the workout as fast as you can, yet NEVER compromising form.

For time – 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 reps of:

• Walking Lunge (each leg).  Hold Dumbbells at your side.  Go heavy, yet manageable with solid form
• Strict Press (aka “Military Press” or “Shoulder Press”).  Go heavy, yet manageable with solid form
• Jump Rope X 5 (for example, in the round of 10, you do 50 Jump Ropes.  The round of 9 you 45 Jump Ropes and so on)
• Hanging Leg Raise.  If you don’t have access to a bar for Hanging Leg Raise, or are not able to do them, do Lying Leg Lifts as a substitution.

Explaining the rep scheme:  You perform one round of the circuit, doing 10 reps of each movement, except Jump Rope, where you do 5 times the prescribed reps.  Once you do 10 reps of all the movements, you go back to the top of the list and do 9 reps of each.  Then 8 and so on.  This is a MetCon which is geared towards amping up your metabolism, elevating your heart rate and challenging you mentally.  Go at an intensity that is right for you.  Just be sure to push yourself a little today.

Yoga:  Yoga session, or foam roll focusing on lower body today.

Daily Practice for 11 Sept 18

Meditation:  Journal for 10:00 today.  Meditate for 10:00 as well, taking a few moments to reflect on the events of “9/11” and what it means to you, to the world, then and now.  Take a few additional moments to offer compassion to all who have been impacted by what transpired on that day in 2001 as well as who has been impacted by it over the last 17 years.

Cardio:  

Run X 1 mile for time.  Rest for 3:00 – 5:00 then go again.  Make an effort to keep the two times within :90 of each other.  For example, if you run your first mile in 6:00, your second mile should be no more than 7:30.  Be sure to perform a thorough warm up before your first mile effort.

Yoga:  Join me at Cityoga for my 5:45 – 7:00pm Hot Vinyasa class!  Otherwise, spend at least 10:00 stretching, mobilizing and/or foam rolling>

Daily Practice for 10 Sep 18

Meditation:  Seated meditation for 12:00 at any time of day.

Strength:

Combo #1 for 3 rounds:

• Deadlift X 10 as heavy as possible
• Slow Push Up (3 count on way down, 3 count of way up)
• Boat Pose Hold X 1:00.  If you can’t go the full minute, hold as long as you can with good form and break when needed.
• Rest X 1:00

Combo #2 for 3 rounds:

• Dips X 10 or Bench Dips X 15
• Chin Up X 5 (more if you can!), or Pulldown X 15 as heavy as you can with good form.
• Man/Woman Maker X 10
• Rest X 1:00

Yoga:  Join me for my new class at Invoke Wellness, located at 86th and Ditch on Indy’s North Side.  Heated Vinyasa from 5:45 – 6:45.  Otherwise, minimum of 10:00 stretching, mobility, and or foam rolling.

Daily Practice for 07 Sep

Meditation: Meditate for 12:00 today. Pro tip – if sitting for 10:00-12:00 is too long for you, break it up into two sessions, splitting the time in half.

Yoga: it’s Friday! And that means it’s Yoga day! Practice for a minimum of 20:00.

Have a great weekend. Stay active, get rested and ready for a bigger training week next week!

Peace ✌🏼

Chris

07 Sep 18

Meditation:  Meditate for 10:00 at any time today.

Strength:  MetCon day.  

For those who may not know, “MetCon” is short for Metabolic Conditioning.  This is also sometimes known as “Work Capacity”.  Regardless, the purpose of a MetCon is intensity.  The intensity from this sort of workout delivers a tremendous boost to your metabolism as well as improvement to cardiac output, the ability to deal with lactate and other metabolites and builds mental toughness.  So, go hard, yet ALWAYS maintain proper form.

5 rounds of the following.  Rest only as needed.

• Strict Pull Up X 5
• Hanging Leg Raise X 10
• Thruster X 15 at a light to moderate load (weight).
• Run X 200 meters.  Any cardio alternative is fine if running isn’t an option.  If subbing, do 1:00 of the activity.

Yoga:  10:00 of stretching, mobility, or yoga.

Daily Practice for 04 Sep 18

Meditation:  Walking meditation for 10:00, or seated meditation for 10:00.   Or, go for both!

Cardio:  Medium range interval day.  Activity of your choice.

After a proper warm up do the following intervals.

• Challenging but sustainable pace X 3:00
• Recover X 1:00
• Repeat for a total of 8 sets

Cool down and stretch.  Nothing formal today.

Daily Practice 03 Sep 18

Meditation:  Early morning breath work and meditation.  Please click HERE if you are unfamiliar with this practice.  Meditation is for 10:00.

Strength:

3 rounds of:

• Chin Up X as many as you can do with strict form.  May substitute by using the assisted Pull Up machine – if so, do 10 reps.  May also use an exercise band on this, also for 10 reps.
• Slow motion Push Up X 10 (3 count on the way down, 3 count on the way up).
• Kettlebell or Dumbbell Swing X 20
• Turkish Get Up (just to the high bridge position, not all the way to standing) X 5 each side.
• Rest as needed between rounds

3 rounds of: 

• Kneeling Curl and Press X 12
• Kneeling 1/2 Moon X 5 each side
• Bridge X 20, or Single Leg Bridge X 10 each
• Rest as needed.

Yoga:  10:00 of stretching or mobilization of your choice.